Ep.378 – Guards Division, 1915-17
Published on 1 March 2026
Podcast Guest: David Griffith
In this episode of the Western Front Association’s Mentioned in Dispatches, David Griffith discusses his new book The Guards 1915–17: An Elite Division at War published by Helion & Co.
The book is the first major history of the Guards Division in nearly a century, drawing on war diaries and memoirs to follow the unit through Loos, Flers-Courcelette, Morval and Pilckem Ridge. Griffith also examines the culture, reputation and experiences of an elite force under the pressure of modern war.