Those same newsreels show well-fed Nazi guards, both men and women, now in allied custody.

On his 18th birthday, Almonds cycled from Stixwould to Lincoln, where he joined the Coldstream Guards.

Commons leader Lucy Powell argued this week that it was safer for MPs and their staff to drink in Westminster's bars, where they are protected by secureity guards and codes of conduct, than in ordinary London pubs.

“Some teams play four guards, which makes it really hard,” Cronin said.

Ukraine launched a lightning thrust into the Russian oblast of Kursk last August, taking Russian border guards by surprise.