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Typed War Diary sheets completed by the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, covering the battalion’s service employed in training and parades at Warminster in Dorset, Riddlesworth in Norfolk, Ampleforth, Yorkshire, together with correspondence of Major E H Goulburn, Commanding Officer 1st (Motor) Battalion with Regimental Headquarters relating to company appointments, staffing issues, and technical complexities of the battalion, and of Captain Robert Steele, a nominal roll of officer of the battalion (September 1943), copies of the Grenadier newsletter (September - October 1943), and instructions for field exercises named FREEZE, BLUES, DUCKLING, LONGFORD, SPARTAN, SPRING, DERBY, MIDSUMMER, GROUSE, SPAUNTON, NERVO, KNOX, NONSTOP, BLACKCOCK, and RECOVERY. This file also includes typed correspondence between RHQ and Goulburn discussing officer candidates and appointments (January 1944). Associated with Grenadier Guards, World War Two (1939-1945). From the Regimental Archive of the Grenadier Guards.

BLACKCOCK, Exercise, 1943 (World War Two 1939-1945), NONSTOP, Exercise, 1943 (World War Two 1939-1945), NERVO, Exercise, 1943 (World War Two 1939-1945), SPAUTON, Exercise, 1943 (World War Two 1939-1945), GROUSE, Exercise, 1943 (World War Two 1939-1945), TIKE, Exercise, 1943 (World War Two 1939-1945), SPARTAN, Exercise, 1943 (World War Two 1939-1945), LONGFORD, Exercise, 1943 (World War Two 1939-1945), BLUES, Exercise, 1943 (World War Two 1939-1945), FREEZE, Exercise, 1943 (World War Two 1939-1945)