Bearskins, Bayonets and Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum
Inspiring and amusing stories from the museum dedicated to the five regiments of the Sovereign's Foot Guards. As well as describing the artefacts in this great collection of regimental ephemera, the Director of this brilliant museum gives some insights into the museum, its background, the people who work there and the challenges involved in running an independent museum in these troubled times. Stories which will inspire, astound and amuse.
Episodes
21 episodes
Bearskins, Bayonets & Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum Episode 21
This week the Director looks at the life of one of the more colourful officers in the world of Guards music. He examines the biography of Lieutenant Colonel Jiggs Jaeger written by Colin Dean. Jaeger was a larger than life character...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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39:47
Bearskins, Bayonets & Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum Episode 20
Continuing with the virtual tour of the museum's galleries, this week the Director looks at three relatively recent campaigns namely, the Falklands and the two Gulf Wars.
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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27:16
Bearskins, Bayonets & Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum Episode 19
Due to a bit of a health issue, the Director has been a bit of a drain on the National Health Service and has been nipping in and out of hospital over the last few weeks (for which he offers his abject apologies). So this week he offers a...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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22:22
Bearskins, Bayonets & Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum Episode 18
Finishing of the Second World War and moving on to post war operations, this week the Director looks at two very different Guards officers.....both highly competent and both very brave.....but both very different.
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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40:49
Bearskins, Bayonets & Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum Episode 17
Concluding the third instalment of the Guards in the Second World War, this week the Director examines the history of The Guards Armoured Division from its inception in 1941 through to its disbandment in 1945 following a remarkable and highly s...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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48:36
Bearskins, Bayonets & Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum Episode 16
Continuing the story of the five regiments of Foot Guards in World War 2, this week the Director looks at the move from North Africa into mainland Europe. He follows the exploits of these remarkable soldiers through the gruelling battle n...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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30:10
Bearskins, Bayonets & Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum Episode 15
This week the Director starts the massive subject of the Guards in the Second World War.....tracing the five regiments from the outbreak of the war in September 1939 to the end of the North African Campaign. The five regiments were embroi...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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54:52
Bearskins, Bayonets & Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum Episode 14
In this episode, the Director looks at the period between the two world wars and talks about the abdication of King Edward VIII. He also describes the fantastic model of the Scots Guardsman Locomotive on display in the museum which is a s...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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34:02
Bearskins, Bayonets & Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum Episode 13
'The loudest voice in the British Army!'.....That was the reputation gained by Regimental Sergeant Major 'Tibby' Brittain over a career which spanned nearly 40 years. This week the Director looks at the life and work of ths remarkable man...
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Episode 13
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54:20
Bearskins, Bayonets & Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum Episode 12
The war to end all wars.....or so they thought at the time. This week the Director continues the virtual tour of the museum and focuses on the Great War. Four years of mud, blood and tears in which the Guards saw some of the fierces...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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38:08
Bearskins, Bayonets & Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum Episode 11
With the annual Birthday Parade also known as Trooping the Colour cancelled this year due to the pandemic, this week the Director has arranged an interview with the man who usually co-ordinates this iconic ceremony, Warrant Officer Class 1 (Gar...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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52:08
Bearskins, Bayonets & Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum Episode 10
The virtual tour of the collection continues this week with the end of the Victorian age and the advent of the Edwardian era. We have a war in South Africa and the establishment of the Irish Guards. The Director covers the death of ...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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29:05
Bearskins, Bayonets & Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum Episode 9
A new departure this week! For the first time the Director has a guest on the podcast. Roddy Gow, OBE is here to talk a little about his father, General Sir Michael Gow who was an eminent and proud Scots Guardsman. Following t...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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40:51
Bearskins, Bayonets & Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum Episode 8
Continuing the virtual tour of the museum galleries, this week the Director shares stories about the Crimean campaign and the Sudan campaign. These two expeditions were extraordinarily tough for the Guards soldiering as they were in the f...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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36:39
Bearskins, Bayonets & Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum Episode 7
This week the Director shares readings from the autobiography of a former Guards officer who was perhaps atypical of those who usually were commissioned into the Foot Guards.Derek Bond was a reasonably successful actor but he volunteered at...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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36:54
Bearskins, Bayonets & Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum Episode 6
Waterloo! Probably the most transformational battle in annals of the Guards. This week we look at the Peninsula campaign and the long-running battle between Wellington and Napoleon Bonapart for European supremacy. We find some...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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34:13
Bearskins, Bayonets & Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum Episode 5
This week the Director focuses on the life of a General who served for nearly 50 years, who met Wellington and was present at that great man's funeral. General Sir George Higginson commended in The Crimea, witnessed the Charge of the Ligh...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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41:52
Bearskins, Bayonets & Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum Episode 4
This week the Director looks at the next stage in the virtual tour of the museum galleries and describes the elevation of John Churchill of The First Guards to become the first Duke of Marlborough and a favourite of Queen Anne. We hear ab...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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33:21
Bearskins, Bayonets & Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum Episode 3
In this episode the Director pauses the virtual tour of the museum to share some stories from one of the many wonderful books in the museum library. This week he shares some tales about Lt. Col. John Mackenzie-Rogan, who served for 50 yea...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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39:00
Bearskins, Bayonets & Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum Episode 2
In this episode, the Director describes the location of the museum and its adjacency to both The Guards Chapel and to the Flanders Fields Memorial Garden. He then takes you into the museum and describes the first few galleries pausing to ...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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35:04
Bearskins, Bayonets & Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum Episode 1
This is the first episode in a new podcast recorded by Andrew Wallis, MBE, DL who is the Director of The Guards Museum. The forced closure of the museum due to the COVID-19 pandemic has acted as the catalyst to create this podcast as an o...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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