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AUTUMN 2022 PLATINUM JUBILEE EDITION

PLATINUM PARTY AT THE PALACE
HM The Queen Elizabeth II marked her Platinum Jubilee in June 2022, celebrating 70 years on the throne, and becoming the longest reigning monarch in British history. The bank holiday weekend, from 2nd to 5th June, offered the British public an array of celebrations.  Read more ...
STANDING OUT: THE HOUSEHOLD BRIGADE AND QUEEN VICTORIA’S DIAMOND JUBILEE PROCESSION 1897
Amidst the panoply of colour and the cheers of the spectators on Diamond Jubilee day, 22nd June 1897, two elements of the Household Brigade’s participation stood out. One was very noticeable at the time; the other did not emerge until the following year. Read more ...

YUKON 700 - 8 GRENADIERS WITH 15 EYES, 13 LEGS AND 99 YEARS’ SERVICE…
At midday on 8th June 2022, a team of eight Grenadiers set off in open canoes from Whitehorse in the Yukon Territory, Northwest Canada, heading down the River Yukon. The plan was to get to Dawson City, which is located about 740 km north, having paddled the whole way without any support, through one of the world’s last great wildernesses.
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SUMMER 2022
THE BATTLE OF TUMBLEDOWN MOUNTAIN 40 YEARS ON
Asking a soldier to reflect on the forty years since the Falklands conflict is, in terms of time, rather like asking a Boer War veteran his memories by someone approaching the darkest days of World War 2.  Nevertheless, there are consistent threads and, from time to time, occasional revelations, coupled, of course, with that not-always-so-helpful factor, hindsight, together with one or two little unsolved mysteries.  Read more ...
THE WELSH GUARDS IN THE FALKLANDS WAR
THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CONFLICT

During early April of 1982, 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, together with 2nd Battalion Scots Guards, were ordered to come under command of the 5th Infantry Brigade in Aldershot for possible deployment to the South Atlantic. The initial Task Force consisting of Royal Navy surface ships, submarines and civilian ships, with the Commando Brigade spread amongst them, was already on its way south. Read more ...




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