THE 2nd LIFE GUARDS |
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| 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. |