Word: grenadiere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seating at banquet was by numbers drawn from a hat. Chance arranged that the Prince of Wales should sit between Sergeant William F. Burman, now a chauffeur, who won his cross for silencing a machine gun singlehanded, and John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, Viscount Gort, acting Colonel of the aristocratic...
Lord David George Brownlow Cecil Burghley, British hurdler (Cambridge University), resigned from the Grenadier Guards to enter business in The City (London's Wall Street).
Last in importance but first and omnipresent in display came the companions in arms of Marshal Haig: the Lancers, the Queen's Own Hussars, the Royal Horse Guards upon their matched chestnut horses, the King's Own Scottish Borderers (better known as "The Ladies from Hell"), finally the...
Meanwhile the rich standards of the Grenadier Guards dipped and swept the ground in salute. Soon the Household Cavalry moved off at a smart trot. Through a lane between applauding hands passed two sovereigns who have little in common except that they both collect stamps.*
Lionel deJersey Harvard graduated from the College in 1915, returned to England and enlisted in the Grenadier Guards. Kenneth Harvard his younger brother, was transferred to the Guards and the brothers served together on the Western Front. Kenneth was killed in the fall of 1917, near Messines and his brother...