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GRENADIER GAZETTE 2019 ONCE a GRENADIER, ALWAYS a GRENADIER 56731 Gazettecover2019 Srv4.Qxp Layout105/03/201911:32Page2 THE GRENADIER GAZETTE 2019 The Grenadier Gazette 2019 THE REGIMENTAL JOURNAL OF ONCE A GRENADIER, ALWAYS A GRENADIER ALWAYS ONCE A GRENADIER, THE GRENADIER GUARDS Issue No 42 Price £7.00 56731 GazetteCover2019_SRv4.qxp_Layout105/03/201911:32Page2 Members of Nijmegen Company lining the West Steps of St. George’s Chapel for the wedding of HRH Princess Eugenie. GrenadierTHE 2019 THEGazette REGIMENTAL JOURNAL OF THE GRENADIER GUARDS CONTENTS PAGE THE APPOINTMENT REGIMENTAL NEWS Household Division Update ..................................................... 4 OF HRH THE DUKE OF Regimental Headquarters ........................................................ 6 YORK AS COLONEL, Director of Welfare’s Report .................................................... 8 GRENADIER GUARDS The Regimental Archives ......................................................... 9 Regimental Band ...................................................................... 10 by Major Grant Baker Battalion News .......................................................................... 12 Page 25 The Queen’s Company ............................................................. 14 No 2 Company ........................................................................... 15 Inkerman Company .................................................................. 16 Support Company ..................................................................... 19 Nijmegen Company .................................................................. 21 1918 CENTENary – 14th Company ........................................................................... 22 A MOST GALLANT FEATURES GRENADIER The Appointment of HRH The Duke of York as Colonel ....... 25 by Steve Snelling Working within the UN ............................................................ 27 The Mutual Benefit of Capacity Building ............................... 28 Page 36 Working with the Royal Air Force ........................................... 29 Pont-à-Marcq Liberation Annual Anniversary Visit .............. 31 Old Etonian Remembrance Service ......................................... 33 Plaque Unveiling ...................................................................... 33 NO 2 COMPANY Grenadiers and ‘Layforce’: A Chance to Get Stuck In ........... 34 ANNUAL REUNION A Most Gallant Grenadier ........................................................ 36 Lieutenant-Colonel Crabbe ...................................................... 43 & 40TH ANNIVERSary People – Where are they now? ................................................. 46 2018 OBITUARIES ......................................................................... 50 by Andy Richardson GRENADIER GUARDS ASSOCIATION .......................... 58 Page 63 News from the Dining Club ..................................................... 61 No 2 Company Annual Reunion and 40th Anniversary ........ 63 Regimental Remembrance Day 2018 ...................................... 64 The Association Battlefield Tour 2018 .................................... 66 THE ASSOCIatION Remembrance ........................................................................... 69 Association Visit to the 1st Battalion ...................................... 70 BattLEFIELD TOUR Support Company Reunion ...................................................... 71 2018 – A DIary The Reconnaissance Platoon Reunion .................................... 72 The Old Farts Golf Society ....................................................... 73 by Chris Whitebrook From Boy Soldier to Top Soldier ............................................. 73 Page 66 Become a Mentor with Supporting Wounded Veterans ......... 75 Two of a Kind ............................................................................ 77 We Should Remember Them ................................................... 78 The Editor accepts photographs for publication on the understanding that those More Memories of the Cameroons ........................................... 80 submitting them have, where required by data protection legislation, obtained Branch Notes ............................................................................ 82 consent to publication from those depicted. Anyone who believes this is not the case or has a DPA related concern should contact the Editor. DIARY OF EVENTS ........................................ Inside Back Cover The GRENADIER GAZETTE is published annually in March. EDITORS: Brigadier DJC Russell Parsons OBE and Major A.J Green, c/o Regimental Headquarters, Grenadier Guards Wellington Barracks, Birdcage Walk, London SW1E 6HQ (Tel: 0207 414 3225). All contributions to Regimental Treasurer. Email: [email protected] The opinions expressed in the articles of this magazine are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the policy and views, official or otherwise, of the Regiment or the MOD. This publication contains official information. It should be treated with discretion by the recipient. © Crown Copyright Member of the Association of Service Journals Printed by Healeys Print Group, Ipswich Visit our website www.grengds.com to find out all the latest news 1 EDITORIAL On a personal note, I’m really enjoying being the Foreword Regimental Lieutenant Colonel. The day job keeps me very busy but the opportunity to spend time with by Major General Roly Walker DSO Grenadiers is welcome and restorative. And broadening too. I was delighted to mark the excellent affiliation we t’s my pleasure to offer a foreword to the The Grenadier have with the Ironmongers by becoming a freeman of IGazette, a publication which not only tells the stories the Company recently, and by association a freeman of which the editorial team feels matter, but reflects on the the City of London. If found inebriated within the City ones which matter enough for contributors to write in. boundaries, the latter means I now have the right to I hope the extensive compilation of material, all easily be escorted home safely by a constable! More seriously, readable and beautifully laid out, inspires even more the Company has been characteristically generous in Grenadiers to put pen to paper, or fingers to keyboards, supporting The Colonel’s Fund, which alongside the next year. other regimental charities, does so much good work for The publication of the Gazette also marks a moment in the few of our company who sadly need a little help. time, like the closing of company accounts, when what was I particularly enjoyed visiting the 1st Battalion in Iraq planned is crystallised for posterity into what was done. last year, a visit arranged for The Colonel which I was able It’s such an important way to keep in touch, to learn about to coincide with, fortuitously. Unfortunately, he couldn’t the ups and downs of the regimental family, what folk are make it at the last minute, for want of some frustrating doing, will do, or have done, up and down the land, from travel protocols, so I was able to take full advantage of these shores or others. A real window into the health of the otherwise unaccustomed VIP package laid on for the Regiment, which I hope you find in good shape. him, including a very decent dinner at the residence of We are indebted to Brigadier David Russell-Parsons, our ambassador and a full motorcade of Iraqi police and his support team and all those who have kindly set a private security detail to whisk me up to Taji and back, precious time aside to write a story worth us all reading avoiding the atrocious traffic jams which mark Iraq’s about. I’d also like to pay tribute to all those in positions return to normality. My own return to normality occurred of leadership and responsibility within the regiment, when dumped, somewhat unceremoniously, curbside for their contribution to enhancing the good order and opposite the departures gate of Baghdad International, efficiency of the Grenadier Guards – we are only as good first experienced in very different circumstances in 2003 as our people, and our people only as good as they are led. but now fully functioning as a gateway to the world. I was unable to link up with Grenadiers in Kabul, missing them by a matter of days, nor sadly those in South Sudan; but reflections from across the board painted a picture of a fine battalion, well led and in good spirits, making a meaningful difference to the security situation, and taking advantage of every opportunity to better themselves in the profession of arms. We should all see evidence of this excellence later this year as the 1st Battalion troop their Colours on the Queen’s Birthday Parade, not only in the high standards to which Grenadiers are accustomed, but in the extensive range of new campaign medals accumulated by guardsmen during active operations overseas in 2018. We will also see Nijmegen Company and the Regimental Band on parade, who themselves have been supporting a busy and equally active schedule of state ceremonial and public duties, public engagements, contingency operations and military training. The band played brilliantly at Peter Carrington’s memorial in Westminster Abbey, and in both prayers, tributes and reflections, the Grenadiers featured as a The Lieutenant Colonel receiving the Freedom of the City large part in his extraordinarily selfless and successful of London as an Ironmonger. life. Perhaps as Grenadiers march past Her Majesty 2 Visit our website www.grengds.com to find out all the latest news EDITORIAL The Lieutenant Colonel with the Commanding Officer and members of the 1st Battalion in Iraq. and the
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