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Grenadier Guards Association FOUNDED 1913 Patron: Her Majesty the Queen President: Colonel E.H Grenadier Guards Association FOUNDED 1913 Patron: Her Majesty the Queen President: Colonel E.H. Houstoun OBE General Secretary: Captain (QM) T. A. Rolfe Wellington Barracks (Civil) 020-7414-3285 Birdcage Walk (Fax) 020-7222-4309 London SW1E 6HQ (Military) 94631 3285 [email protected] Distribution: All Grenadiers Newsletter Autumn 2009 The Association Company Camp Colours Some time ago, I suggested to the Regimental Adjutant that the Old Third Battalion Company Camp Colours might be redesignated. The Regimental Adjutant discussed it with the Lt Colonel and, since the 3rd Bn is unlikely ever to be taken out of suspended animation, he decided that we would reallocate the Camp Colours of the Commanding Officer (No 22 – A crescent The President of the Grenadier Guards light or beacon burning) and Adjutant (No Association Company Camp Colour 24 – For Ireland a Stag couchant issuing from a Tower) of the 3rd Battalion, to the President and General Secretary of the Association respectively. Clearly, this is a much more worthy use for them than gathering dust metaphorically and physically, on a shelf in the stores! Thus, these two Colours now reside, rather splendidly in the General Secretary’s office and will, doubtless see the light of day on equally splendid Association “occasions”. They will be on parade on Regimental Remembrance Day and Grenadier Day. The General Secretary of the Grenadier Guards Association Company Camp Colour 1st Battalion Guard on this year’s Queen’s Birthday Parade. aving enjoyed a successful exercise The Company has also continued to act as H in Kenya, under the new the first port of call for all Guardsmen Commanding Officer, Lt Col Roly Walker, finishing training and following the troop, everyone enjoyed a spot of adventure it ‘delivered’ 60 Guardsmen ready to training before returning to Wellington deploy on Operation HERRICK 11. Barracks. The Company has also been busy sending The Battalion then conducted some small Guardsmen on various exercises, including work up exercises and some Public Duties, having a platoon on exercise in Belize for including Street Lining for the Queen’s a month, with the Platoon Commanders’ Birthday Parade. Battle Course. For some, this was their Home Service Clothing was then packed first exercise out of training and an away and the focus was fully on enormous eye opener! Afghanistan, with the Battalion completing The Company has enjoyed some well the OPTAG packages and exercises. They earned leave and has returned to a busy did exceptionally well and as a result, were period of Public Duties and State rewarded with the most challenging Ceremonial commitments. Battlegroup, to relieve the Welsh Guards for Operation HERRICK 11. Regimental Band The Grenadier Battlegroup has an attached Company of Estonian Soldiers, as well as he Band has continued to play its part Companies from the Duke of Lancashire Tin the busy ceremonial calendar. Regiment and the Royal Anglians. At the beginning of the year, the Band A families’ Church Service was held on continued its successful spell in Germany, the 4th September, led by the Bishop of with a couple of Quintets conducting many London. It was nice to see that so many public performances through January. families had made the effort to travel to The band also played its usual key roles in London. The Battalion is now fully the Cenotaph Parade, in November and in deployed and will be returning from OP the State Opening of Parliament. HERRICK 11 in March/April 2010, before On the 26 April, the Band held a Concert being presented with new colours, for the Colonel’s Fund in Norfolk hopefully in May. They are also hoping to Troop the new colour at Her Majesty’s Notes from the Regimental Adjutant Birthday Parade in 2010. Towards the end of 2010, the Battalion is he 1st Battalion has now fully planning to move from Wellington Tdeployed, less a few stragglers, to Barracks, London, back to Lillie Barracks Helmand Province, the last flight having in Aldershot. departed on 22 September. They are currently undergoing an in-theatre training st Nijmegen Company package which is being run by 1 Battalion Irish Guards and already the “2nd XI” ijmegen Coy has now been based in Command Team have moved up country N Napier Lines, Woolwich since to start the relief in place of 1st Battalion September 2007. Welsh Guards. One Gdsm has been Over the course of the year, the Company casevac’d home, suffering from severe has been involved with the usual busy heat illness. Once the Battalion is in place, calendar of State Ceremonial and Public on about 3 Oct, I am expecting to be able Duties, including providing Number Four to communicate with them and as a result hope to be able to send regular updates on what is going on. Closer to home, on 20th should be available for viewing in the next September, Nijmegen Company and the fortnight or so and the address is Regimental Band played a major role in www.grengds.com . The aim is to have a commemorating the 65th Anniversary of website that embraces the whole the Battle of Nijmegen. Regiment, serving and past, whether they be members of the Association or not. The theme is “Once a Grenadier, always a Grenadier”, with a view to making it easier for Grenadiers to keep in touch and meet up with each other. The Association trip to Nijmegen A party of 60, from the Association, based themselves in Eindhoven in preparation for the Celebrations of the 65th Anniversary of the liberation of Nijmegen, during September 1944. Arriving late in the th The Commemoration was attended by The evening of Friday 18 September, after a Colonel and Queen Beatrix of the long coach ride from Calais, we settled Netherlands and the Grenadiers added a into our rooms, superbly coordinated by splash of colour, symmetry and precision the Coach Company, Turners of Bristol, on a glorious late summer’s afternoon. and LSgt Jay Ellingham. Peter Carrington was there too, with his “ADC” (and Godson) Valentine Cecil and he made a most eloquent speech after accepting Nijmegen’s Medal of Honour, on behalf of the Guards’ Armoured Division. After the Commemoration, the Regimental Band and Nijmegen Company led a column of World War 2 vehicles over the Bridge and back. The Lt. Col. and Regtl. Adjt. had great enjoyment in persuading General David Petraeus to walk back to the Town Hall for a Reception behind the Band and Nijmegen Company, rather than going in his The following day the party attended a armoured limousine, much to the reception in the town of Oss where the The consternation and hysteria of his security Mayor, Mr. Herman Klitsie, gave a speech detail! In all, it was a wonderful occasion. of welcome. A reply was given by Major Frank Green, a veteran of the liberation. he new Regimental website, which We were invited to lay a wreath at the T has been masterminded by Alan town’s new war memorial. This was Ogden, is about to be launched. Although carried out, with due reverence by Major “up and ready”, it is still work in progress; Frank Green. The Memorial had been thus any practical and constructive designed and constructed by the youth of suggestions are welcomed, bearing in Oss. It is called the ‘Monument to mind that major architectural changes are Freedom, Tolerance and Peace’. unlikely to be feasible, whereas more After a moving, ceremony we were invited minor cosmetic changes could be. The site to have lunch in the Town Hall, where we watched a short film, depicting interviews with veterans and some old news reels of the advance into Holland. The President made a speech of thanks and presented the book ‘British Grenadier’ to the town. The Grenadiers will take away with them treasured memories of lasting friendship, with the people of Heesch. On Sunday 20th September, on our way to Nijmegen, we stopped off at the Uden War Cemetery. It is located on a stretch of the were introduced to distilled gin evolved old ‘Hells Highway’. We were very from the Dutch spirits called Genever. It fortunate to meet Mr. A Verbakel, the was used drink toasts with the towns’ President of the Historical Society of Uden dignitaries. Captain Trevor Rolfe, War Cemetery, who, in impeccable Association General Secretary, presented English, explained the development of the The Mayor with a print of ‘Winning the Cemetery, to accommodate the bodies of Fire Fight’ (available from the Association the many airmen shot down over Holland, Shop, proceeds to the Colonel’s Fund), We followed by the dead of ground forces of made our farewells and left Oss, via ‘Market Garden’. A wreath was laid at the Sgtbrownstraat, named after the only memorial by Captain Trevor Rolfe and the Grenadier to die in Oss. We headed dedication said, before proceeding to towards Heesch, arriving in the afternoon, Nijmegan. passing along Grenadierstraat, named in On arrival at Nijmegen, we eventual took honour of the Regiment. our seats in a grandstand, at Emperor At Heesch we met up with the President of Trajan Square. This is where The Kings the Association, the Regimental Adjutant Company and Number 4 Company, Ist and Colonel A.T.W. Duncan, President of Battalion fought, to secure the access to nd the London Branch. the bridge head, that allowed the 2 Battalion tanks to approach in readiness to dash across. The remainder of the Nijmegen visit is recorded elsewhere in these notes. The full overview of Market Garden and the visit to Holland by the Association, written by Major Frank Clark, Grenadier Guards and Intelligence Corps, to whom the party were very grateful for his overview of each site visited, will be covered in the 2010 Grenadier Gazette.
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