Seventy years on from the death of King George VI, a 95-year-old former Grenadier Guard has recalled his key role in the monarch’s funeral.
John Walmsley, a Sergeant in the King’s Company stationed at Victoria Barracks, Windsor, at the time, accompanied the King’s coffin.
Aged just 25 at the time, John was in charge of an escort detachment when word came through of the King’s death in Sandringham, on 6 February 1952.
