GUARDS MAGAZINE
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THE GUARDS MAGAZINE JOURNAL OF THE HOUSEHOLD DIVISION
No: 210 Autumn 2024
CONTENTS
EDITOR’S NOTES ...................................................................................................................................... 6 From A Purely Personal Point of View - Le Beny Bocage - Nijmegen, August-September 1944 ............... 26 Exercise ULU WARRIOR ............................................................................................................................ 41 The Inkerman Company - Validating the Grenadiers for a New Task: Reception, Staging and Onwards Movement (RSOM) ...................................................................................................................................... 43 Exercise WESTPHALIA GUARDIAN - Household Cavalry Regiment - Sennelager ................................ 44 Their Majesties The King and The Queen of the Belgians at the Cenotaph and Guards' Memorial on 13th July 2024 and Reminders of the 80th Anniversary of the Liberation of Brussels ........................................ 45 The Old Man and the Sea - Man Against Nature, Channel Swim 2024 ....................................................... 49 In the Steps of a Family Victoria Cross ........................................................................................................ 59 A Walk Around Windsor Pubs Part Two - Guildhall Island .......................................................................... 60 Grenadiers Remember the Battle at Pont-à-Marcq, 3rd September 1944 ..................................................... 64 50 Years On - Cyprus 1974 ........................................................................................................................... 71
NEWS Honours and Awards ........................................................................................................................................ 8 Royal Military Academy Sandhurst Commissions ......................................................................................... 9 People, Places, and Events ............................................................................................................................. 11 Competition 99, Cartoon, and Book Offer ..................................................................................................... 23 Sport .............................................................................................................................................................. 76 Regimental Intelligence ................................................................................................................................ 79 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR .................................................................................................................. 125 BOOK REVIEWS ..................................................................................................................................... 127 OBITUARIES ............................................................................................................................................ 133
Information on the digital and online versions of this magazine are on page iii.
Cover: Lieutenant E G Harborne, Grenadier Guards. Platoon Commander, The Guards Parachute Platoon,
3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment. Training on Catterick Training Area. September 2024.
LSgt Alisdair Szyszko, Grenadier Guards
