Photocopied typed memoir written by Major General Frederick Beaumont-Nesbitt, covering his childhood in Ireland, schooldays in Eton, officer training at Woolwich and Sandhurst (1911-1912), posting to 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards, training at Pirbright Camp and Swaffham, postings to Aldershot, Wellington Barracks, and first days in France at the beginning of the First World War, including details of uniform, discipline, good standards, experience of being on the King’s Guard, outbreak of war and mobilisation, transfer to 1st Battalion, and journey to headquarters in Soupir, France. Associated with World War One (1914-1918). From the Regimental Archive of the Grenadier Guards.