Jonathan Boff

A Guardsman’s life as not as glamorous as it might seem

Besides taking part in dangerous operational tours abroad, units of the Household Division keep up a gruelling schedule of ceremonial duties at home

A member of the Household Cavalry parades at the Major General’s Review in Hyde Park, 29 March 2012. [Getty Images] 
issue 27 January 2024

This book is the perfect present for the Guardsman in your life. It offers an authorised biography of the five regiments of Foot Guards and two of Household Cavalry from 1969 to the present day. In that half century the Guards have been under fire in Northern Ireland, the Falklands, Iraq, the Balkans and Afghanistan, with much of the time also spent maintaining a presence in West Germany.

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