(Middle front) Past President: Captain J.S. Lloyd MC JP DL (Middle back) Vice President: Captain R.T. Combe

The Branch President Colonel E.B.L. Armitstead C.B.E. Annual Branch Lunch April 2009

Pendomer House

The Branch Garden Party 25th July 2009 held at Pendomer House, Pendomer, Somerset

The Branch Garden Party 25th July 2009 hosted by the Branch President Colonel E.B.L. Armitstead C.B.E. & Mrs C. Armitstead.

Pendomer House, Pendomer, Somerset.

Past President: Captain J.S. LLoyd MC, JP

The Branch Garden Party 25th July 2009. Pendomer House, Pendomer, Somerset.

Pendomer House

The Branch Garden Party 25th July 2009 held at Pendomer House, Pendomer, Somerset.

The Swan Theatre Yeovil, Somerset 18th November 2009

Bill Pertwee found fame as ARP Warden Hodges in the series Dad's Army and has put together a comprehensive book tribute to all aspects of the show.

The book includes The Coldstream Guards association with this classic television legend.

The making of a television legend: Dad's Army [book title]

The Band of The Coldstream Guards conducted by Director of Music, Captain (later Major) Trevor L. Sharpe MBE, LRAM, ARC, psm. closes each episode.

(Support The Coldstream Guards in Afghanistan)

The Regiment page has a web link to this campaign

Yeovil Town Crier (Bruce Trigger) shows his support for The Coldstream Guards in Afghanistan.

(Support The Coldstream Guards in Afghanistan)

The Regiment page has a web link to this campaign

Ronald Brittain MBE (Sept 12, 1899- Jan 9, 1981) well known during his lifetime as an archetypal Regimental Sergeant Major (R.S.M.) (Coldstream Guards).

And for having possibly the loudest voice in the British Army.

The Band of The Coldstream Guards with Lieutenant Colonel Graham Jones MBE, Senior Director of Music, Household Division.

The band is renowned around the world and in 2009 signed a record deal with Universal's Decca Label. The new album Heroes, including The Great Escape, Where Eagles Dare and The Ride Of The Valkyries, is available now.

The memorial is made from Portland stone and is a form

of cenotaph design. It was erected in 1926 dedicated to

the five Foot Guards Regiments of the Great War.

The bronze figures were cast from the guns taken from

the Germans during the Great War (World War 1).

The Guardsmen depicted are Sergeant R. Bradshaw,

M.M., Grenadier Guards, Lance Corporal J. S.

Richardson Coldstream Guards.

Guardsman J. McDonald Scots Guards,

Simon McCarthy, Irish Guards and Guardsman

A. Comley, Welsh Guards.

The memorial was unveiled on 16th October 1926

by the Duke of Connaught.

Mr E. Osborne Branch Member from Canada

Officers and Ranks Wellington Barracks, Birdcage Walk, London.

Coldstream Guardsmen Wellington Barracks, Birdcage Walk, London

(Left) Mr D. Coates (Right) Mr Mandley (Branch Standard Bearer)

The President Colonel E.B.L. Armitstead C.B.E. is presented with a Regimental Silk by Captain W. Matthews (Right ) Nov 2004

Coldstream Guards Association (Yeovil & Taunton Branch No.34) (Founded 1968).

The Branch Wreath laid at the Ilminster War Memorail (The Minster Church, Ilminster)

(Back L) CPL K. Simmons / (Guardsman) M D. Brick

(Front Middle Branch President) Col. E.B.L. Armitstead CBE (Front Right) Major R. Carr Gomm OBE (Guest Speaker)

(Left) Mr David Punshon (Lifeguards) (Right) Mr Alfie Bunch (2 Batt. Coldstream Guards Amoured Div.)

(Pegasus Bridge)

(Left) Vice Chairman Mr L. Mead (Middle) Branch Secretary Mr D. Notley (Right) Mr. G. Mead

(Left) Mr P. Lock (Grenadier Guards) (Right) Mr M. Mandley (Branch Standard Bearer) (Coldstream Guards)

Branch vist Royal Military Academy Sandhurst 2004

Branch vist Royal Military Academy Sandhurst 2004

Branch vist to Royal Hospital Chelsea / National Army Museum 2005

(Left) Past President: Captain J.S. LLoyd MC JP DL (Right) Queen Elizabeth II.

Captain J.S. LLoyd MC (Coldstream Guards) presents Queen Elizabeth II to members of the Branch.

Remembrance Sunday Ilminster, Somerset

(Left) Branch Chairman Mr R.P. Tyas with Branch Standard Bearer Mr M. Mandley

July 4th 1999 Dedication of new Branch Standard, Minster Church, Ilminster, Somerset, two Guardsmen from 1st Battalion

Coldstream Guards Association

(Yeovil & Taunton Branch No.34) (Founded 1968)

(Left) Mr G. Percy (Right) Mr L. Mead

(Front Middle) (Late) Colonel of the Regiment (Coldstream Guards)

(Front Right) Past President: Captain J.S. LLoyd MC JP DL

(Back Right) Vice President: Captain R.T. Combe

(Front Left) (Late) Branch Chairman Mr D. Franks

(Late) (Middle) Major General Sir George Burns GCVO CB DSO OBE MC

(Front Left) Past President: Captain J.S. LLoyd MC JP DL

(Front Right) Vice President: Captain R.T. Combe

(Late) 26th Colonel of the Regiment (Coldstream Guards)

George Monck (1608-1670) First Duke of Albermarle

1st Colonel (Coldstream Guards)

(Late) 26th Colonel of the Regiment (Coldstream Guards)

(Late) 27th Colonel of the Regiment (Coldstream Guards)

The description given for this picture:

2nd Lieutenant Henthcote-Amory of 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards was the tallest officer at six foot and one and a quarter inches tall.

The drummer is John Marshall, an orphan, picked up by the Regiment on manoeuvres near Swindon in 1893, whilst following the troops.

The officers of the Regiment placed him in the Gordon's Boy School, there he became a cornet player from whence he was received into the 1st Coldstream Guards as a drummer boy.

The bugler in the centre belongs to the Coldstream Guards and is wearing the white drill jacket, his white leather belt supports the band sword seen on his left hip.

The drummer boy on the right is from the Grenadier Guards and is wearing the scarlet tunic with white lacing.

The band sword can be clearly seen. The Chelsea Pensioner's uniform has not altered from that date. The medal they are admiring is for service in the Crimea War of 1855.

28th Colonel of the Regiment (Coldstream Guards)