War Diary: Operations Orders 1st Battalion, 1942
war diary, war diary
Accession Number

NAM.2016-10-23-11-35

Description

Typed War Diary sheets completed by the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, covering the battalion’s service employed in training and parades at Mere and Warminster, Dorset, together with correspondence of Major E H Goulburn, Commanding Officer 1st (Motor) Battalion with Regimental Headquarters relating to company appointments and staffing issues, of Eric Miller giving his thoughts on the battalion on leaving to take up an appointment as Staff Captain ‘Q’, and of Major General Sir Julian Gascoigne, and instructions for field exercises named DOVER, CAPUZZO, MAUDE, WHITSUN, DERBY, TIBER, DIGBY, TINKER, CHEDDAR, LILO, REDLYNCH, NADDER, SEMLEY, NORMANDY, OBSERVATION, TUNIS and NOEL. Associated with Grenadier Guards, World War Two (1939-1945). From the Regimental Archive of the Grenadier Guards.

Events

NOEL, Exercise, 1942 (World War Two 1939-1945), TUNIS, Exercise, 1942 (World War Two 1939-1945), OBSERVATION, Exercise, 1942 (World War Two 1939-1945), NORMANDY, Exercise, 1942 (World War Two 1939-1945), NADDER, Exercise, 1942 (World War Two 1939-1945), DIGBY, Exercise, 1942 (World War Two 1939-1945), CAPUZZO, Exercise, 1942 (World War Two 1939-1945

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