Recently the Welsh Guards swapped plate carriers for penguins, helmets for elves, and turned the parade square into a full-blown Christmas grotto to welcome Father Christmas... The annual Christmas Fancy Dress PT session never disappoints — a bit of madness, a lot of laughter, and the perfect way to round off the year together. Cymru Am Byth #WelshGuards #HouseholdDivision #BritishArmy #ChristmasPT #CymruAmByth | British & Commonwealth Forces

8.8K views · 99 reactions | #FlashbackFriday to King George V presenting new Colours to the Welsh Guards at Windsor Castle in 1925. You can see the Welsh Guards at Windsor Castle on BBC One tomorrow at 10:15 as they perform a 'mini' Trooping the Colour for HM The Queen's Official Birthday. gbwls This will be the first time since 1895 the sovereign’s official birthday will be marked at Windsor Castle. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000k558 | Visit Windsor | Facebook

17K views · 496 reactions | The Band of the Welsh Guards leading the the New and Old Guard, drawn from the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards to and from Windsor Castle yesterday. Photographer: Favid Whitecross 23/07/2024 | Changing-Guard | Facebook

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Throwback Thursday | Trooping the Colour, 1920. A remarkable glimpse into history — Trooping the Colour in 1920. It’s easy to watch footage like this and admire the ceremony, the discipline and the pageantry… but what makes it truly humbling is remembering the context. Many — if not most — of the men seen here would have been veterans of the Great War, which had ended only two years earlier in 1918. Soldiers who had faced the mud, smoke and unimaginable hardship of the Western Front, now standin

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#ThrowbackThursday On this weeks Throwback Thursday we bring you a great video of the late The Duke of Edinburgh being given the freedom of our capital back in 1957. The sound on this video is intermittent. Head over to British Pathe for more incredible videos of the Battalions history. Cymru Am Byth #ceremonial #history #throwback #learn #welshguards #infantry #historygeek #historylover #instagood #facts #historyfacts #worldhistory | Welsh Guards