Table of Contents

Contents
Illustrations
Foreword by Field Marshal the Lord Guthrie
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Notes on styles, titles, honorifics and regimental names and ranks
1. For Valour
2. Of Hector and Lysander
3. A Soldier's Knapsack
4. O.H.M.S.S.
5. The Gentlemen Adventurers
6. The Concert Party
7. Sports Day
8. Doolally
9. On and Around the Velvet Bench
10. The Church Militant
11. Conduct Unbecoming
12. Animals On Parade
And Finally . . . The Purple of Commerce

Appendices
i The Guards Memorial
ii List of holders of the Victoria Cross
iii Officers who served with the Special Operations Executive
iv The Regiments, Formations and sub-units of the Household
Division and their antecedent units
Index
About the Authors

About the Author

Christopher Joll, a former officer in The Life Guards, is now an author and event director, and Anthony Weldon is a former Irish Guards officer turned author and publisher.
The two of them have combined forces to produce a riveting account of characters who served in the Household Cavalry and the Foot Guards since 1660, drawing on their extensive experience of both arms of the sovereign's Household troops.