The King’s Company, July-September 1944
regimental diary, diary
Accession Number

NAM.2016-10-23-11-106

Description

Typescript copy of an account of the actions of the King’s Company in Normandy through to Germany (September - December 1944), fighting alongside 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards, including action at Caen, Le Touorneur, Catheolles, the River Seine crossing, the advance to the Escaut Canal, through Brussels, the fighting for the Bridge at Nijmegen, and clearing up operations at Uden and Veghel; including some details of enemy forces, casualties and ad hoc formations of the battalion. Associated with Grenadier Guards, World War Two, North West Europe (1944-1945). From the Regimental Archive of the Grenadier Guards.

Events

Normandy Breakout, 1944 (World War Two, North West Europe 1944-1945)

Associated collection