Newsletter April 2012 Issue 6

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April 2012 Issue # 6

Service Families Support

Group.The Service Families Support Group is a small group of

people which exists to promote the welfare of service

personnel deployed on operations worldwide, and to

provide a place where their families can meet up via

Facebook. The group also provides support for various

projects through private contributions, and will send

welfare parcels to deployed personnel who are on

operations where requested. The group is not a

charity and no donations are accepted. If you have any

comments or questions or if you wish further info or

want to join the group feel free to contact us

www.sfsginfo.co.uk


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MOOtilda MOOscot- Moo adventures in the sands.

For those of you who havent seen it yet I have my very own website now and my very own wristbands

(www.wix.com/mootildamooscot/mootildasmoovement).

Since my last installMOOnt I have been very busy getting my new webpage up and running and helping out atKandahar, I also had two weeks RnR. Which Id love to tell you all about but. What happens on RnR stays on

RnR ;-)

Keep your eyes peeled for more updates from our roving moos reporter in next months issue.

On the 14th of April 2012, two members of The Service

Families Support Group, accompanied by family and friends,

did a charity walk. Starting at the Cenotaph in Walsall and

ending at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, to

raise funds for Help For Heroes and Soldiers Off The Streets.

The walk lasted almost 6 hours and covered almost 20 miles.

Nearly 400 was raised in total, to be split between the two

charities, which will be added to from a street collection in

Walsall Town Centre in June.

Maz Cooper, Heather

(Poppy) Greenway, Logan

Greenway (age 8) TracyHiggins and Lisa Heeley at

the Queen Elizabeth

Hospital, Birmingham.

A big congratulations to James Rawlinson, who with

102, was the highest bidder on the auction for the

book Man Down signed by Marine Mark Ormrod.

Massive Thanks to everyone who helped promote

the auction & especially to Mark for making it all

possible by giving us a signed copy of his book.

100% of the winning bid has been donated to the

Royal Marines Association. C/O The Service Families

Support Group.
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The Grenadier Guards traces its lineage back to 1656, when Lord Wentworth's Regiment

was raised in Bruges, in the Spanish Netherlands (current-day Belgium), where it formed a part of

exiled King Charles II's bodyguard. A few years later, a similar regiment known as John Russell's

Regiment of Guards was formed. In 1665, these two regiments were combined to form the 1st

Regiment of Foot Guards, consisting of 24 companies of men. Since then the Grenadier Guards haveserved ten Kings and three Queens, including currently Queen Elizabeth II. Throughout the 18th

century, the regiment took part in a number of campaigns including the War of Spanish Succession,

the War of Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War. At the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the

regiment gained the name "Grenadier" in July 1815 following a Royal Proclamation, honouring their

part in defeating Grenadiers of the French Imperial Guard at the Battle of Waterloo. During the

Victorian era, the regiment took part in the Crimean War, participating in the fighting at the Alma river,

Inkerman, and Sevastopol. For their involvement in the Crimean War, four members of the 3rd

Battalion received the Victoria Cross. Following this they were involved in the fighting at Battle of Tel

el-Kebir during the Anglo-Egyptian War in 1882, and then the Mahdist War in Sudan, where its maininvolvement came at the Battle of Omdurman. During the Second Boer War, the 2nd and 3rd

Battalions were deployed to South Africa where they took part in a number of battles including the

Battle of Modder River and the Battle of Belmont, as well as a number of smaller actions. In 1900, 75

men from the regiment were used to raise a fourth Guards regiment, known as the Irish Guards in

honour of the role that Irish regiments had played in the fighting in South Africa.

At the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, the regiment consisted of three battalions.With the commencement of hostilities the regiment raised a service battalion, the 4th Battalion, and areserve battalion known as the 5th (Reserve) Battalion, which was used to carry out ceremonial dutiesin London and Windsor during the war. The 1st and 2nd Battalions of the regiment were the first to besent to France, and took part in the early stages of the fighting during the period known as "Race tothe Sea", during which time they were involved significantly at the First Battle of Ypres. In February1915, a fifth Guards regiment was raised, known as the Welsh Guards. In recognition of the significantcontribution Welshmen had made to the Grenadier Guards, the regiment transferred five officers and634 other ranks to the newly formed unit. A short time later, permission was received for theformation of the Guards Division, the brainchild of Lord Kitchener, and on 18 August 1915, the divisioncame into existence, consisting of three brigades, each with four battalions. Following this the fourservice battalions of the regiment fought in a number of significant battles including Loos, theSomme, Cambrai, Arras and the Hindenburg Line. Seven members of the regiment received the

Victoria Cross during the war.

Following the Armistice with Germany in November 1918, the regiment returned to just threebattalions which were used in a variety of roles, serving at home in the United Kingdom, as well as inFrance, Turkey and Egypt.
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During the Second World War the regiment was expanded to six service battalions, with the re-raising ofthe 4th Battalion, and the establishment of the 5th and 6th Battalions. The Grenadier Guards' firstinvolvement in the war came in the early stages of the fighting when all three regular battalions were sentto France in late 1939 as part of the British Expeditionary Force. As the BEF was pushed back by the Germanblitzkrieg, these battalions played a considerable role in maintaining the British Army's reputation duringthe withdrawal phase of the campaign before being themselves evacuated from Dunkirk. After this theyreturned to the United Kingdom where they undertook defensive duties in anticipation of a possibleinvasion. Later, in 1941, there was a need to increase the number of armoured and motorised units in the

British Army and as a result the 2nd and 4th Battalions were re-equipped with tanks, while the 1st Battalionwas motorised. They subsequently served in the Guards Armoured Division in Western Europe in 194445.The 3rd, 5th and 6th Battalions also served in North Africa, where they fought significant battles in theMedjez-el-Bab and along the Mareth Line, and in Italy at Salerno, Monte Camino, Anzio, and along theGothic Line. Throughout the course of the conflict two Grenadiers received the Victoria Cross.

In June 1945, following the end of hostilities, the 2nd and 4th Battalions gave up their tanks and returned tothe infantry role. The regiment returned to three battalions at this time, with the 4th and 5th Battalionsbeing disbanded along with the 6th which had been removed from the order of battle before the end of thewar. Initially, they were employed on occupation duties in Germany, however, the 3rd Battalion wasdeployed shortly afterwards to Palestine where they attempted to keep the peace until May 1948 whenthey were replaced by 1st Battalion. Further deployments came to Malaya in 1949, Tripoli in 1951 and Cyprusin 1956. In 1960, shortly after returning from Cyprus, the 3rd Battalion paraded for the last time and wassubsequently placed in suspended animation. In order to maintain the battalion's customs and traditions,one of its companies, the Inkerman Company, was incorporated into the 1st Battalion.

Since the mid-1960s, the 1st and 2nd Battalions deployed to Africa, South America and Northern Irelandwhere they undertook peacekeeping duties. They also undertook duties as part of the NATO forcestationed in Germany during the Cold War. In 1991, the 1st Battalion, which had been serving in Germany atthe time, was deployed to the Middle East where it took part in the Persian Gulf War mounted in Warriorarmoured personnel carriers, before returning for a six month tour of Northern Ireland.

In 1994, under theOptions for Changereforms, the Grenadier Guards was reduced to a single battalion. The2nd Battalion was put into 'suspended animation', and its colours passed for safekeeping to a newly formedindependent company, which was named "The Nijmegen Company".As a result of this the regiment wasreduced to its current composition: one full battalion, the 1st Battalion, consisting of three rifle companies,a support company and a headquarters company, based at Wellington Barracks, London, and oneindependent company, The Nijmegen Company.

Look out next month for a brief history of another regiment.
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