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The Guards Museum.

The Guards Museum is situated at the East end of Wellington Barracks with entrance gates from Birdcage Walk. The Museum covers, of course, the formation and exploits of all the Regiments of the Household Division. The Museum is open to the public and the charges for entry are : £2 per person, £1 for former Guardsmen and Free for serving members of the Household Division. The Guards Museum does not have it's own website.

The Guards Shop.

Close by and just inside the entrance gates from Birdcage Walk is the Guards Shop in which items of all Regimental interest such as books, CD's miniature battlefield soldiers etc can be seen and purchased.

The Guards Chapel

This is also situated in Wellington Barracks and is opposite to the entrance to the Guards Museum. An inter-denomination Chapel. The Chapel suffered a direct hit from a flying bomb during the Sunday morning service when very many of the congregation were killed. The Chapel was restored in the 1960's and many Colours of the Regiments of the Division are "laid up" along it's walls. It is open to the public to visit and also for Sunday morning service at 11 am

Mareth Cross

Near the steps leading down to the Guards Museum can be found the Mareth Cross and a wreath laying ceremony takes place just prior to the Regimental Remembrance Day parade. The Mareth Cross commemorates the loss of fourteen Officers and sixty-three Other Ranks of the 6th Battalion who were killed at the Battle of Mareth in Tunisia on the 16-17 March 1943. Total casualties in the action amounted to two hundred and seventy-nine Officers and Men. The Cross was carved from local stone by the pioneers of the 6th Battalion and was left standing on the battlefield. It was brought back, badly in need of repair, to the Guards Depot at Caterham in 1957. It was then moved to the Guards Depot at Pirbright in 1959 and then moved to its present site in Wellington Barracks. The Cross has been placed in the care of the London Branch who will supervise the constant maintenance and repair.

The Guards Memorial on Horse Guards Parade.

All Guardsmen know exactly where the Horse Guards Parade is situated but for viewers of this web site who do not know where Horse Guards is then it lies between The Mall and Birdcage Walk and Whitehall and of course is well know for the Trooping of the Colour or to give it the correct title The Queen's Birthday Parade. It is also used for the Beating of Retreat and ad hoc parades.

Recently I have obtained some very good photographs of the Guards Memorial itself and two of these I show here. Acknowledgement is made to Mr Ernie Taylor for the use of these photographs.

The photograph on the left is of the left hand figure as you look at the memorial or the right hand figure in the order of the line of the Guards Regiments.

In the larger photograph below can be seen the Regimental Badges of the Regiments below each fugure in the Order Grenadier, Scots, Welsh, Irish and Coldstream Guards.