THE 2nd LIFE GUARDS

   
             
    History   Raised in 1660 as the 3rd, or Duke of Albemarle's, Troop of Guards (2nd Life Guards in 1788).    
             
    Emblazoned Battle   War of Austrian Succession (1740-8): Dettingen.    
    Honours   Peninsular War (1 808-14): Peninsula.  
        Hundred Days (1815): Waterloo.    
        Revolt of Arabi Pasha (1882): Tel-el Kebir.    
        First Sudan War (1882-4): Egypt 1882.    
        South African War (1899-1902): Relief of Kimberley; Paardeburg; South Africa 1899-1900    
        Great War: Mons; Le Cateau; Marne 1914; Aisne 1914; Messines 1914; Ypres 1914, 1915, 1917; Somme 1916, 1918; Arras 1917, 1918; Hindenburg Line; France and Flanders 191 18.    
             
    Accredited Battle Honours   Great War: Retreat from Mons; Armentières 1914; Langemarck Gheluvelt; Nonne Bosschen; St Julien; Frezenberg; Albert 1916; Scarpe 1917, 1918; Broodsceinde; Poelcapelle; Passchendaele; Bapaume 1918; Epéhy; St Quentin Canal; Beaurevoir; Cambrai 1918; Selle.    
             
    Marches   Quick: Men of Harlech.    
        Slow: The Slow March of-the 2nd Life Guards    
             
    Museum   Household Cavalry Museum, Combermere Barracks, St Leonard's Rd, Windsor, Berkshire (tel 0753 868222 ext 203): open Monday-Friday 1000-1300, 1400-1700.    

 

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