#Coldstream Guards

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Every generation tailors history to its taste.

- Ada Louise Huxtable

Crimean Coldstream Guards Officers Uniform - Lt The Honourable William Amherst.

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The Guards Came Through

Arthur Conan Doyle

Men of the Twenty-first

    Up by the Chalk Pit Wood,

Weak with our wounds and our thirst,

    Wanting our sleep and our food,

After a day and a night.

    God, shall we ever forget?

Beaten and broke in the fight,

    But sticking it, sticking it yet,

Trying to hold the line,

    Fainting and spent and done;

Always the thud and the whine,

    Always the yell of the Hun.

Northumberland, Lancaster, York,

    Durham and Somerset,

Fighting alone, worn to the bone,

    But sticking it, sticking it yet.

Never a message of hope,

    Never a word of cheer!

Fronting Hill 70’s shell-swept slope,

    With the dull, dead plain in our rear;

Always the shriek of the shell,

    Always the roar of the burst,

Always the tortures of Hell,

    As waiting and wincing we cursed

Our luck, the guns, and the Boche.

    When our Corporal shouted “Stand to!”

And I heard some one cry, “Clear the front for the Guards!”—

    And the Guards came through.

Our throats they were parched and hot,

    But Lord, if you’d heard the cheer,

Irish and Welsh and Scot,

    Coldstream and Grenadier—

Two Brigades, if you please,

    Dressing as straight as a hem.

We, we were down on our knees,

    Praying for us and for them,

Praying with tear-wet cheek,

      Praying with outstretched hand.

Lord! I could speak for a week,

    But how could you understand?

How could your cheeks be wet?

    Such feelin’s don’t come to you;

But how can me or my mates forget

    When the Guards came through?

“Five yards left extend!”

    It passed from rank to rank,

And line after line, with never a bend,

    And a touch of the London swank.

A trifle of swank and dash,

    Cool as a home parade,

Twinkle, glitter and flash,

    Flinching never a shade,

With the shrapnel right in their face,

    Doing their Hyde Park stunt,

Swinging along at an easy pace,

    Arms at the trail, eyes front.

Man! it was great to see!

    Man! it was fine to do!

It’s a cot, and hospital ward for me,

But I’ll tell them in Blighty wherever I be,

    How the Guards came through.

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The Coldstream Guards, 2015, © Alasdair McLellan

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The Coldstream Guards on the March, 1830, Great Britain, plate by R. Wymer

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Honestly didn’t expect the King’s Guards to bear the same rifles as American (military) action movie characters

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To support the England Football team, Prince Charles & Camilla asked the Band of the Coldstream Guards into Clarence House Garden to play Three Lions

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Number 3 Company the Coldstream Guards take a pause in exercises to watch England’s 4-0 win over Ukraine. 

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Oct 9 1917 During the Battle of Poelcappelle, war photographer takes these photos of John Warwick Brooke of 4th Battalion, Coldstream Guards, looking at a German howitzer (possibly 10.5 cm Feldhaubitze M.12) they captured on the outskirts of Houlthulst Forest.

October 9 1917-10-09 

IWM Q 6046, IWM Q 6047, IWM Q 6048, 

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Coldstream Guards Parade/Field dress, 1900.

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Coldstream Guards buttons on a navy hopsack blazer.

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Coldstream Guards marching to a forward area near Bronfay Farm, Bray-sur-Somme, 23 September 1916.

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The Coldstream Guards forming a square, 1799, Great Britian, plate by R. Wymer

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Coldstream guards 1815 interview

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Shaming of the guard: Queen's concern after three Coldstream Guardsmen batter Palace footman in bar brawl - putting two of them in hospital

Shaming of the guard: Queen’s concern after three Coldstream Guardsmen batter Palace footman in bar brawl – putting two of them in hospital

‘Fight’ between Coldstream Guards and the Queen’s footmen left four injured

Footmen went to a leaving drinks at Greenwood Sports Pub near Royal Mews

Confrontation with Coldstream Guards outside pub then turned into a ‘full-scale punch-up’

Buckingham Palace said Metropolitan Police were dealing with the incident 

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Guardsman Park and his brother Senior Aircraftman Park of the RAF Regiment stood side by side outside of Buckingham Palace today, as number 2 company take over Queen’s and Windsor Guard this week.