WilliamRev Posted 7 April , 2019 Share Posted 7 April , 2019 A few months ago I requested help finding autobiographies and memoirs relating to the 3rd and 6th Divisions in in the Great War, and forum members came up with quite a few that I had never come across, for which I am most grateful. I now need your help again if you would be so kind: I am now after memoirs/letters/diaries of men who served in the British Guards Division from August 1915 onwards, [ I am only interested in primary sources, i.e. writings by men who actually fought, not biographies]. So far I have: Reminiscences of a Grenadier, 1916-1919, E.R.M. Fryer To Hell and Back with the Guards, Norman D. Cliff Fifteen Rounds A Minute, the diaries of Major Jeffreys Have You Forgotten Yet? C.P. Blacker Letters from the Front, Brian Lawrence I am sure there are plenty more - can you help? Thanks, William Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Michelle Young Posted 8 April , 2019 Admin Share Posted 8 April , 2019 A Generation Missing by Carrol Carstairs, War Letters to a Wife by Rowland Feilding, Old Men Forget by Duff Cooper, The Distant Drum by Fen Noakes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilliamRev Posted 8 April , 2019 Author Share Posted 8 April , 2019 (edited) Thanks for these Michelle. Now I look on my bookshelves I find that I have copies of (and have read!) The Distant Drum and War Letters to a Wife (which I thought was particularly good). Suggestions are still welcome. William Edited 8 April , 2019 by WilliamRev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulgranger Posted 8 April , 2019 Share Posted 8 April , 2019 Scots Guard by Wilfred Ewart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Maria Posted 8 April , 2019 Share Posted 8 April , 2019 (edited) Iron times with the guards -2nd Coldstream Medicine and Duty - 3rd Grenadiers Henry Dundas Scots Guard -1st A Private in the Guards- 2nd Scots Guards Miles Barne's diary -1st Scots Guards The letters of Major Henry Bentinck-2nd Coldstream Triple Challenge ( Bayly)-1st Scots Guards From Peace to War / The memoirs of Lord Chandos- 2nd Grenadiers A Victorian Son (Cloete)-2nd Coldstream A Man at Arms (Law)-1st Irish Guards Edited 8 April , 2019 by Black Maria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 8 April , 2019 Share Posted 8 April , 2019 ‘Winds of Change: 1914-1939’ by Harold Macmillan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilliamRev Posted 9 April , 2019 Author Share Posted 9 April , 2019 Thanks for these titles, all of which have been helpful; I find that I have a few of them already on my 'to read' pile. I have just found a second-hand copy of Cloete's A Victorian Son for a tiny sum on Amazon, so have ordered that. Other suggestions are still welcome. William Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Maria Posted 10 April , 2019 Share Posted 10 April , 2019 (edited) 'General Pa: The life and diaries of Frederick James Heyworth' - Scots Guard Brigadier General . Came across this on e-bay recently , quite scarce in book form it seems but did notice it was also available to read online . Edited 10 April , 2019 by Black Maria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernard_Lewis Posted 10 April , 2019 Share Posted 10 April , 2019 Is it possible that the Guards' Museum/ archive holds unpublished memoirs? Bernard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Masters Posted 10 April , 2019 Share Posted 10 April , 2019 Hi. From Eton to Ypres - letters and diaries of Lt Col. W. Abel-Smith. 2nd Grenadier Guards 1914-15. Regards JM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Maria Posted 10 April , 2019 Share Posted 10 April , 2019 18 minutes ago, Masters said: Hi. From Eton to Ypres - letters and diaries of Lt Col. W. Abel-Smith. 2nd Grenadier Guards 1914-15. Regards JM Great book , although he was killed a few months before the Guards Division was formed . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Masters Posted 11 April , 2019 Share Posted 11 April , 2019 Hi. I believe some of the Grenadier Guards archives are to be held at the National Army Museum. Lt. Col. a.f.a.n. Thorne CO of 3rd GG during 1917 left some of his personnel archives. Check online for details. Regards jm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilliamRev Posted 11 April , 2019 Author Share Posted 11 April , 2019 Thanks once again everyone for all these suggestions, which have given me various literary works and new avenues of research to pursue. William Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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