GRENADIER GUARDS BIBLIOGRAPHY

Grenadier Guards Bibliography Project as of 1 March 2021

Abel Smith, Charles. From Eton to Ypres. The Letters and Diaries of Lt Col Wilfred Abel Smith, Grenadier Guards, 1914-15. The History Press, Stroud, 2016.

Abel Smith, Lt.-Col. Wilfrid Robert. Letters and Diaries (1914-1915). John & Edward Bumpus, London, [no date].

Alford, Michael. The Grenadier Guards in Afghanistan. The Colonel’s Fund Grenadier Guards, 2010.

[Anon.] List of Officers. C. Roworth, London, 1803.

[Anon.] March Songs 2nd Battn. Grenadier Guards 1907. CH Woodward Machine Printer, Devizes, no date.

[Anon.] Short History of the Grenadier Guards. Benham & Company Ltd., Colchester, 1917.

[Anon.] The Grenadier Guards [Stories of our Regiments series], Charles p. Sisley, London, [1918?].

[Anon.] The Colours of the Grenadier Guards. Benham and Co. Ltd, Colchester, 1937.

[Anon.]. The Grenadier Guards, 1939-1945. Gale & Polden Ltd., Aldershot, 1946.

[Anon.] The Colours of the First or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards. Printed by W. S. Cowell, Ltd., Ipswich, 1957.

[Anon.] The Band of the Grenadier Guards 1685-1985. Aldermans of Ipswich, 1985.

Aubrey-Fletcher, Capt. H. L. First Battalion Grenadier Guards, 4th Oct. - 8th Nov., 1914. Metchin & Son, London, [1915].

Ball, Simon. The Guardsmen: Harold Macmillan, Three Friends and the World they Made. Harper Collins, London, 2004.

Barry, Alan. Salesman with an AK47. The Cloister House Press, [Gloucester], 2016.

Beech, H. Eva; Joseph Boulcott of the Grenadier Guards: baggage master to the Duke of Wellington. [Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry], [Birmingham], [1994].

Birch Reynardson, Bill. Survivors. A story in letters of an English family's survival during four centuries of wars. Adwell Press, 2014.

Bond, Derek. Steady, Old Man! Don’t You Know There’s a War on? Leo Cooper, London, 1991.

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Briant, Keith. Fighting with the Guards. Cox & Wyman, London, 1960.

Brinton, Algy. Twice the Man. A Photographic Diary of a Year in the Life of the Grenadier Guards. Third Millennium Publishing, London, 2011.

Britten, Brigadier Charles Richard. Memoirs of my Life. Privately printed, no date.

Bromage, Nigel. A Soldier in Arabia. The Radcliffe Press, London, 2012.

Brown, Cedric. Cedric’s Letters During the Great War 1914-19. Clowes & Sons, 1926.

Brown, Cecil. Hell on Earth. The Battle for Battaglia and other wartime experiences. Archway Printing, Kettering, 1997.

Browne, John. Grenadier Grins: short, fun reminiscences of a life associated with the Grenadier Guards 1956-2006. John Browne, Ipswich, 2006.

Browning, Denys. Why the Grenadiers? A Chaplain’s Memoirs of the Fifth Battalion Grenadier Guards 1942-1945. Privately printed, no date.

Buchanan, Kelpie; Mektoub. War Memories 1939-45. Image Evolution, 2007.

Bunbury, E. J. Diary of Active Service in France, Belgium & Germany, 1917-1919, Vol. I. Privately printed, no date.

Bunbury, E. J. Diary of Active Service in France, Belgium & Germany, 1917-1919, Vol. II. Privately printed, no date.

Burnaby, E. S. An Account of the Right Flank Company of the 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards defending the right of the British position, and subsequently the colours of the Battalion, when surrounded by the enemy at the battle of Inkerman, 5th November, 1854. Staunton and Son, London, 1857.

Bushell, Peter. Sir Thomas Butler. His Life and Family. Privately published, 1990.

Captain and Adjutant. History of the Provisional Battalion. Privately published, 1918

Carrington, Lord. Reflect on Things Past. The Memoirs of Lord Carrington. Collins, London, 1988.

Carstairs, Carroll. A Generation Missing. William Heinemann, London, 1930.

Chabot, Diana. Waterloo Hall of Brampton: the life of John Hall, weaver, militia man, grenadier guard and workhouse master. Hemphill Publications, Hove, n.d. [c. 1996].

Chambers, Barbara. John Collett and a Company of Foot Guards. Barbara Chambers, Worcestershire, 1997.

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Chambers, Barbara. The men of the 1st Foot Guards at Waterloo and Beyond. B. J. Chambers, Worcestershire, 1997. 2 vols.

Chambers, Barbara. Royal Chelsea Hospital Grenadiers 1760-1854. Barbara Chambers, Worcestershire, 1997.

Chandos, Lord. From Peace to War. The Bodley Head, London, 1968.

Clark, Frank. We were Brothers in Arms. WW2 through the eyes of the ordinary soldier. Matador, Kidworth Beauchamp, 2013.

Cleveland, Duchess of. In Memory of Colonel the Honourable Everard Henry Primrose. Privately printed by William Clowes, London, 1888.

Cliff, Norman D. To Hell and Back with the Guards. Merlin Books Ltd., Devon, 1988.

Cluff, Algy. Get on with it – a Memoir. Cluff & Sons, Dover, 2016.

Colville, J. R. Man of Valour. The Life of Field-Marshal The Viscount Gort, VC, GCB, DSO, MVO, MC. Collins, London, 1972.

Craster, J. M. ‘Fifteen Rounds A Minute’. The Grenadiers at War, August to December 1914. Edited from the diaries and letters of Major ‘Ma’ Jeffreys and others. Macmillan London Ltd., London and Basingstoke, 1976.

Crichton-Stuart, Michael. G Patrol. William Kimber, London, 1958.

Crosthwaite, Ivor. A Charmed Life. Grenadier Guards 1936-1946. TWM Publishing, Pangbourne, 1996.

Crosthwaite, John Fisher. Brief Memoir of Major-Gen. Sir John Geo. Woodford, K.C.B., K.C.H. W. Kent & Co., London, 1881.

Curtis, Reg. The Memory Endures. The Story of a Grenadier Guardsman and Pioneer of the Parachute Regiment 1937-1945. Pilots Publishing, Canterbury, 2014.

Davies, Lieut. J. L. & Russell-Parsons, Major D. J. C. Second Battalion Grenadier Guards 1686-1994. A Commemoration of The Models. Aldermans, Ipswich, 1994.

Dearden, Capt. Harold, RAMC. Medicine & Duty: A War Diary. Heinemann, London, 1928.

Dearden, Harold. Time and Chance. Heinemann, London, 1940.

Dorney, Richard. An Active Service. The story of a soldier’s life in the Grenadier Guards, SAS and SBS 1935-1958. Helion & Company Ltd., Solihull, 2005.

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Dugdale, Bill. Settling The Bill. The Memoirs of Bill Dugdale. Endeavour, London, 2011.

Fear, Ray. Pawn Shop Dick. Anthony Rowe Ltd., Wiltshire, 2005.

Feebury, David (ed.) Guardsman & Commando. The war memoirs of RSM Cyril Feebury DCM. Pen & Sword, Barnsley, 2008.

Fletcher, Ian (ed.). Letters from the Front. The Great War Correspondence of Lieutenant Brian Lawrence, 1916-17. Parapress Ltd., Tunbridge Wells, 1993.

Forbes, George. Battle Diary. Tunisia, Italy and Palestine, 1943-46. Ampleforth Abbey Trustees, Keighley, 2015.

Fraser, General Sir David. The Grenadier Guards; Osprey Publishing Ltd., London, 1978.

Fraser, General Sir David. The Grenadier Guards. Osprey Publishing, London, 2002.

Fraser, General Sir David. Wars and Shadows. Memoirs of General Sir David Fraser. Penguin Books, London, 2002.

French McNair, Robert. The Colours of the British Army; comprising the Standards, Guidons and Flags of every regiment in Her Majesty’s Service. London, 1870.

Fryer, Major E. R. M. Reminiscences of A Grenadier. Digby, Long & Co., London, 1921.

Gascoigne, Major-General Sir Julian. ‘A Modern Major General’. The Memoirs of Julian Gascoigne, 1903-1990. Antony Rowe Ltd., Chippenham, 1992.

Gibson, John. As I remember. 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards Posting to the Southern Cameroons May-October 1961, privately published, Leicestershire, [date].

Gleichen, Count. With the Camel Corps Up the Nile. Chapman & Hall, London, 1888.

Gleichen, Major-General Lord Edward. A Guardsman’s Memoirs. A Book of Recollections. William Blackwood & Sons, London, 1932.

Glenconner, Pamela. Edward Wyndham Tennant. A Memoir by his Mother. The Bodley Head, London, 1916.

Glover, Gareth (ed.). A young gentleman at war: the letters of Captain the Honourable Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Foot Guards in the Peninsula and at Waterloo, 1812-5. Ken Trotman, Huntingdon, 2008.

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Greasley, Brian (comp.). FW goes to war: from the diaries and letters of F. W. Brocklehurst of Sheldon, Derbyshire. Country Books, Bakewell, [2016].

Gronow, Captain R. H. Reminiscences of Captain Gronow, formerly of the Grenadier Guards and MP for Stafford; being anecdotes of the camp, the court and the clubs, at the close of the last war with France. Smith, Elder and Co., London, 1862.

Gronow, Captain R. H. Recollections and Anecdotes; Smith, Elder, and Co., London, 1863

Gronow, Captain R. H. Celebrities of London and Paris; Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1865.

Hamilton, Lieutenant-General Sir F. W. The Origin and History of the First or Grenadier Guards. John Murray, London, 1874. 3 vols.

Hamilton, Lieutenant-General Sir F. W. Corrigenda and Addenda to the Three Volumes of The Origin and History of the First or Grenadier Guards. John Murray, London, 1877.

Hanning, Henry. The British Grenadiers. Three Hundred & Fifty Years of the First Regiment of Foot Guards. Pen & Sword Military, Barnsley, 2006.

Hatton, Colonel V. Khartoum 1898. The Palace Press, London, 1899.

Hennessey, Patrick. The Junior Officers’ Reading Club. Allen Lane, London, 2009.

Hennessey, Patrick. Kandak, Fighting with Afghans, Allen Lane, London, 2012

Hervey-Bathurst, Sir F. E. W. The War Diaries of Sir F. E. W. Hervey-Bathurst, Bt., 1870-1956: Sudan Campaign, Omdurman, 1898, and South Africa, Boer War, 1899 (Grenadier Guards). Privately printed, no date.

Higginson, General Sir George. Seventy-One Years of A Guardsman’s Life. Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1916.

Hussey, Marmaduke. Chance Governs All. A Memoir. Macmillan, London, 2001.

Jay, Bernard. The Adventures of a Romantic. Logaston Press, Almeley, 1998.

Jeffreys, General the Lord. The Grenadier Guards. A tercentenary exhibition held by gracious permission of Her Majesty the Queen at St. James’s Palace, 30 May-23 June 1956. Vail and Co. Ltd., printers, London, 1956.

Johnston, Brian. It’s been a lot of fun: An Autobiography. W. H. Allen, London, 1974.

Johnston, Brian. Someone Who Was. Reflections on a Life of Happiness and Fun. Methuen, London, 1992.

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Johnston, John. Memoirs of a Tank Troop Leader. Privately printed, 2002.

Joliffe, John. Raymond Asquith. Life and Letters. Collins, London, 1980.

Keble Talbot, Edward. Christopher Gilbert Ford, 1910-1944. A memoir. Printed for private circulation, 1957.

Kennedy, D. J. 2623520 Gdsm Kennedy DJ 6th Guards Tank Brigade Reminisces. Ryton Typing Service, Worksop, no date.

Kerr, Alistair. Betrayal: The Murder of Robert Nairac, G.C. Cambridge Academic, 2015.

Kimberley, Earl of. The Whim of the Wheel. Merton Priory Press, Cardiff, 2001.

Kinsman, Amanda. Bunch’s War 1942-1948. Photo Book, 2013.

Lambert, Sir John. A Memoir 1921-1948. Privately printed, 2015.

Lascelles, George. The Tongs and The Bones. The Memoirs of Lord Harewood. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London, 1981.

Lawrence, B.L. War Correspondence Sept 1916 – Aug 1917. Privately printed, no date.

Lewis, John. The Grenadier Guards Tercentenary Year. W. S. Cowell Ltd., Ipswich, 1956

Lewis, John H., The March to Hougoumont: Lord Saltoun & the First Guards from Sicily, Walcheren and the Peninsular War to Waterloo, 1805-15. Leonaur, [place], 2020.

Lichfield, Patrick. Not the Whole Truth. An Autobiography. Constable, London, 1986.

Lindsay, Donald. Forgotten General. A Life of Andrew Thorne. Michael Russell Publishing Ltd., Salisbury, 1987.

Lindsay, Oliver. A Guards’ General. The Memoirs of Major General Sir Allan Adair Bt., GCVO, CB, DSO, MC, JP, DL. Hamish Hamilton Ltd., London, 1986.

Lindsay, Oliver. Once a Grenadier…The Grenadier Guards 1945-1995. Leo Cooper, London, 1996.

Lloyd, Brigadier-General F. & Russell, Brevet-Major Hon. A. First or Grenadier Guards in South Africa 1899-1902. J. J. Keliher & Co. Ltd., London, 1907.

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[Lygon, E. H.] The Diary of The Hon. E. H. Lygon, Lieut. And Adjt. 3rd Batt. Grenadier Guards. Oct. 26th 1899 To March 21st 1900. Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1900.

Lyttelton, Humphrey. Last Chorus. An autobiographical medley. JR Books, London, 2008.

Lyttleton, Oliver, Viscount Chandos. The Memoirs of Lord Chandos. The Bodley Head, London, 1962.

Martin, Captain F. History of the Grenadier Guards [Abridged) 1656-1949. Gale and Polden, Aldershot, 1951.

McCartney, Tom. The King’s Men. Pluto Press, London, 1990.

Mead, Richard. General ‘Boy’. The Life of Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Browning GCVO, KBE, CB, DSO, DL. Pen and Sword, Barnsley, 2010.

Montagu of Beaulieu, Lord. Wheels Within Wheels. An Unconventional Life. Wiedenfeld and Nicholson, 2000.

Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Capt. Lord Herbert. Twelve Diary Letters. Concerning the 1st Company Guards Mounted Infantry and the Irish Guards Section in Particular. South Africa, 1901-1902. Privately published, London, [1924].

Morris, Richard. The Man Who Ran London During the Great War. The Diaries and Letters of Lieutenant General Sir Francis Lloyd, GCVO, KCB, DSO, 1853-1926. Pen and Sword, Barnsley, 2009.

[Murray, A. H.]. Alasdair Murray, 1900. A few words and letters privately offered to those who, at Locharron and elsewhere, knew him well. Spottiswoode & Co. Ltd., London, 1901.

Nelson, Major-General Sir John. Always A Grenadier. Privately printed, date unknown.

Nicholson, Captain Nigel & Forbes, Patrick. The Grenadier Guards in the War of 1939-1945. Gale & Polden Limited, Aldershot, 1949. 2 vols.

Nicholson, Nigel. Long Life. Memoirs. Orion Publishing Group, London, 1997.

Noel, Gerard. Miles: A Portrait of the 17th Duke of Norfolk. Michael Russell, Norwich, 2004.

Norwich, Viscount. Old Men Forget. The Autobiography of Duff Cooper (Viscount Norwich). Rupert Hart-Davies, London, 1953.

Norwich, John Julius (ed.). The Duff Cooper diaries: 1915-1951. Phoenix, London, 2014.

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Nugent, Sir Nicholas. The case of Nicolas Nugent, Esq; late lieutenant in the First Regiment of Foot Guards. With copies of the letters which passed between him and General Craig, Lord Barrington, and the Judge Advocate…addressed to the officers of the First Regiment of Foot Guards. Printed for J, Almon, London, 1776.

Ogden, Alan. An Account of Operations 1996-2015. Nine Elms, London, 2019.

Owen, Anne (ed.). With the Grenadier Guards on the Western Front. The Diary of Pte. A. C. Burton M.M. October 1915 to September 1916. Anne Owen, Derby, 1994.

Park, Dennis A. Tales of A Grenadier. A War Memoir. Alba Publishing, Hawick, 1993.

Parker, John. Death of a Hero. Metro, London, 1999.

Percy, Algernon. A Bearskin’s Crimea: Colonel Henry Percy VC and his brother officers. Leo Cooper, Barnsley, 2005.

Ponsonby, Lieut.-Colonel the Right Hon. Sir Frederick. The Grenadier Guards in The Great War of 1914-1918. Macmillan and Co. Ltd., London, 1920. 3 vols.

Ponsonby, Sir Frederick, first Lord Sysonby. Recollections of Three Reigns. Eyre & Spottiswode, London, 1951.

Powell, Anne. BIM. A Tribute to The Honourable Edward Wyndham Tennant. Lieutenant, 4th Battalion Grenadier Guards, 1897-1916. Jill Bullen, Salisbury, 1990.

Prescott, Peter. Reminiscences of a Grenadier. Privately printed, no date.

Presland, Eric. Discipline with Humanity. The Memoirs of a Second World War Grenadier Guard. Swan Press, Northampton, 2019.

Prince Consort, His Royal Highness the. The Speech of…the Prince Consort… Colonel of the Grenadier Guards, on the 16th of June, 1860. (Appendix, containing the origin of the … Grenadier Guards, etc.). Printed for private circulation, [London], 1860.

Pritchard, Jack. Seven Years a Grenadier 1939-1946 from Dunkirk to Nijmegen; Forces & Corporate Publishing, Rushden, 1999.

Ross, Sergeant T. J. What did you do in the War, Grandad? Privately printed, no date.

Rowallan, Lord. Rowallan: the autobiography of Lord Rowallan. Paul Harris Publishing, Edinburgh, 1976.

Rudge, Steve. A Guardsman’s Lot. Author House, United States, 2005.

Russell, Bt-Major the Hon. A. V. F. V. Letters from South Africa during The Boer War. J. J. Keliher & Co., London, 1909.

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Sarkar, Dilip. Guards VC Blitzkrieg 1940. Ramrod Publications, Worcester, 1999.

Seale, Guardsman T. Memoirs – Boyhood. Privately printed, no date.

Seale, Raymond E.G. ‘Grenadiers’ of Worcester and Hereford. Printing Manor Printing Services, Wotton, 2006

Sitwell, Osbert. Great Morning. Being the third volume of Left Hand, Right Hand! An Autobiography. Macmillan & Co. Ltd., London, 1948.

Smith, E.A. Recce Troop Memories May 1943 to May 1945. Privately published, 1997.

Smith, Henry Stocks. An Alphabetical List of Officers of the Grenadier Guards, from 1800 to 1854. London, 1854.

Somerset, Captain the Hon. Richard Fitzroy. Diary of Captain the Hon. Richard Fitzroy Somerset, Grenadier Guards, Adjutant 2nd Battalion West African Frontier Force, Feb. 5, 1898-Feb. 19, 1899. Spottiswoode and Co. Ltd., London, 1899.

Spencer, Walter. An Old Soldier’s memories. Privately printed, no date.

Thomas, Robert Dalzell Dillon. The Note-book of a Lieutenant in the Italian Campaign. Sherborne, 1957.

Thorne, Sir Peter. Autobiographical Notes. Privately printed, 2005.

Thuring, J.W.G.M. Grenadier Guards’ Contribution Towards the Liberation of Oss and Heesch. Rijk van Nijmegen, Groesbeek, 1993.

Trotter, E.H. Letters Home. Privately printed, no date. 2 vols.

Vowles, Alan. Our Wilf, the story of W.D.Fuller VC. Privately published, 2017.

Waite, Terry. Taken on Trust. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1993.

[War Office] The Case of Lieutenant H. C. Woods (2nd Bn. Grenadier Guards). War Office, London, 1907.

Westmacott, Guy. Memoirs. Privately printed, 1979.

Whitworth, Maj.-Gen R.H. The Grenadier Guards (The First or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards). Leo Cooper, London, 1974.

Wigram, Neville. Some Memoirs of my Early Life. Privately published, 2002.

Wigram, Neville. Some Memoirs of my Life Since I Graduated from Oxford University. Privately published, 2008.

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Wood, Norman. Once A Grenadier Always A Grenadier. The memoirs of Norman Wood. Old Mill Books, Little Eaton, 1997.

Wright, Philip. For Distinguished Conduct. Blurb creative publishing service, 2009.

Yarranton, Edward. Family memoir of Sergeant Yarranton 1797-1817. Privately printed, no date.

Wyatt, George. The Long March Home. Desktop Impressions, Reading, 1994.

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