Robbie McGuire
Robbie is a military historian and freelance writer who has worked for a number of nationwide publications, writing on a range of historical and current military subjects. He also produces video content for his YouTube channel RM Military History. He has been interested in all things military history from an early age when he discovered a book on The Blitz and never looked back.
After completing his studies in 2015 in Drama Performance and Theatre Arts he currently works for Overt Defense writing pieces on the defence industry world wide and also produces and co-hosts Fighting On Film, the war movie podcast along side firearms historian Matthew Moss, which regularly features in the top 10 UK film review podcast charts.
His debut book is expected to be published by Chiselbury in early 2025. Which will use his late Grandfathers personal war diary to chart the final months of the Second World War. From the battle of the Roer Triangle in January 1945, crossing the Rhine into Germany then slogging it out on the long road to Hamburg in May 1945.
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SGT Robert McGuire (who Robbie is named after) was pre-war regular who joined up just months before war was declared in September 1939. He initially manned air defences as part of the Royal Artillery before transferring into the Army Physical Training Corps in 1943. A physically fit pre war running champion and boxer, Robert found his calling in the APTC being a well regarded instructor who earned the rank of Sergeant Instructor as the war rolled into its fifth year.
After years of service in the UK, Robert finally set foot on foreign soil in August 1944, training replacement troops in a holding camp in Normandy. In December he was sent up to the front lines and joined the 1/5th Queens just inside the German border as they celebrated Christmas and the New Year with his new unit. The book will chart Robert’s experiences as well as his unit starting with Roberts first taste of battle in Susteren in January 45'.
'No tanks to support us, Jerry flung them at us but we held firm'
R.McGuire January 17th 1945.'
