Grenadier Guards

...were brought home. The town has paid its respects to Sergeant Matthew Telford, 37, and Guardsman Jimmy Major, 18, from the Grenadier Guards, who lost their lives alongside three other soldiers in Afghanistan earlier this month.

In this article: Grimsby, Afghan police, Taliban, Wiltshire, Wootton Bassett, and Afghanistan

...Defence Correspondent, Nad e'Ali, Afghanistan Published: 6:30AM GMT 22 Nov 2009 Lieutenant Paddy Rice of the 1st battalion Grenadier Guards was wounded in the back and neck while on duty in central Helmand. The bullet struck the...

In this article: Taliban, Afghanistan, British Army, and British Airways

...with Jimmy Major's face emblazoned on the front. Advertisement Sergeant Telford, 37, and Guardsman Major, 18, from the Grenadier Guards lost their lives alongside three other soldiers when they were shot by a rogue Afghan policeman...

In this article: Afghan police, Silver, Taliban, Wiltshire, Grimsby, and Wootton Bassett

...of Sgt Telford, from Scartho, and Guardsman Major, from Cleethorpes, are expected to be held next week. The men, who were both in the Grenadier Guards, were shot dead at a secure checkpoint in Nad-e-Ali in Helmand Province on 3...

In this article: North East Lincolnshire, Grimsby, UK, and Afghanistan

...launched a series of "Kamikaze-style" attacks against British troops. In the southern area of the district, which is also controlled by the Grenadier Guards, soldiers from the battalion's reconnaissance platoon killed an estimated 16...

In this article: Taliban, British Army, Waste, The Sunday Telegraph, and Afghan National Army

The death of every civilian, accidentally killed by either side, ultimately plays into the hands of the Taliban propaganda chiefs, as the Grenadier Guards recently discovered. In the hours after the shooting of the five British soldiers at...

In this article: Taliban, British Army, NATO, and The Sunday Telegraph

Jimmy Major's face wore the confidence of youth. Dressed in olive battledress, and wearing the beret of his regiment, the Grenadier Guards, he stared out from the T-shirts worn by his relatives and friends, gathered before the war memorial...

In this article: Nick Griffin, Wootton Bassett, Afghanistan, Royal Military Police, The Rifles, and Afghan police

...Nov 2009 The Light Dragoons in Helmand Province, Afghanistan Photo: GEOFF PUGH Three Grenadier Guards and two Royal Military Police were killed as they rested in a compound after passing through a police checkpoint. The incident is the...

In this article: Afghanistan, Taliban, Afghan police, British troops, Falklands War, Democracy, Allegation, and Rupert Thorneloe