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Here we we see King George V inspecting the 'Young Guards' on Hyde Park on 1 March 1919. These were the new troops who were to be sent to Cologne to join the British Army of the Rhine, replacing those Guardsmen who had served during the war and who were now being released from service.
Those Must be the Guards – the Household division in peace and war, 1969-2023, Paul de Zulueta and Simon Doughty.
A sequel to Julian Paget’s The Story of the Guards taking the story from 1969 to the coronation of King Charles III, and giving us a good cross-section of British military history in that period, as the seven Guards regiments between them served in Northern Ireland, the Falklands, with the British Army of the Rhine, in both Gulf Wars, the invasion of Afghanistan and the counter-insurgency campaigns that followed. Also covers their ceremonial role, in particular at the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II and the coronation of King Charles III. (Read Full Review)
