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5th Guards Armoured Brigade - Oswaldkirk.

Discussion in 'The Brigade of Guards' started by HouseholdDivisionMCC, May 14, 2025.

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    HouseholdDivisionMCC New Member

    Hi folks.

    The Household Division Motorcycle Club are doing a D-Day +2 Rideout on 8th June 2025.

    We are starting off in the Peak District next to the River Derwent and will be travelling the A and B roads into Yorkshire where we are stopping at known locations of where the 5th Guards Armoured were located.

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    We understand via research using Volume One of The Grenadier Guards In the War of 39 - 45 that Oswaldkirk and Gilling East are mentioned, where the 1st (Motor) Bn Grenadier Guards were located.

    With 1 Company billeted in Huts at Oswaldkirk and 2 Company were in the grounds of Gilling East Castle.

    We know the 2nd Bn Grenadier Guards were at Duncombe Park.

    However. We are looking for the exact location of where these huts were at Oswaldkirk.

    Does anyone know where the exact location was? We have reached out to the villages official website and have a had response back stating the cannot help as they have very little knowledge of the villages use in WW2. Despite them having some photos on their website.

    We assumed these huts could be in the grounds of Ampleforth College, due to the college having links throughout the regiments history to present day of where the majority of Officers who served in the Grenadiers and other Guards regiments were educated. As Ampleforth College is still officially classed as a Training Range.

    However looking at images pre 2000 on Google Earth. We now think this could be where the site of the nearby Caravan park is.

    We know the rest of the Brigade were at Duncombe Park and the Brigade HQ was at Brompton Hall.

    Also via some diaries we have established that River Crossing training took place at and nearby Kirkham Bridge.

    We would be very grateful for any information relating to where these huts were located at Oswaldkirk along with any other nearby location we can visit that has a visible reminder.

    Regards
    Household Division Motorcycle Club - Est 2015.

    Household Division Motorcycle Club - Est 2015
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