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Typed intelligence summary forms for 1st (Motor) Bn, Grenadier Guards, covering training and exercises in Ampleforth, landing at Juno Beach, Normandy, and push with the BEF through Caen, Brussels, Uden, to Germany, together with correspondence of Lieutenant Colonel E H Goulburn with Regimental Headquarters relating to officer appointments, preparations for overseas, the disembarkation at Normandy, the camp near Bayeaux, action around Caen and Viessoix, and casualties, papers relating to the detachment for the Prime Minister’s visit to Paris (November 1944), operation orders, details of vehicles, nominal roll, account of operations for Caen (July 1944) and the entry into Germany, and Field Return of Officers (August 1944). Also included in the folder is a humorous account of British and American relations at Nijmegen accompanied by sketch cartoons. Associated with Grenadier Guards, World War Two, North West Europe (1944-1945). From the Regimental Archive of the Grenadier Guards.

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