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THE LIFE GUARDS Colonel-in-Chief: HM The Queen |
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| History | Formed in 1922 as The Life Guards (1st and 2nd), becoming The Life Guards by the amalgamation of the 1st Life Guards and 2nd Life Guards in 1928. | |||||
| MOTTO: Honi soit qui mal y pense (Evil be to him who evil thinks). | ||||||
| HEADQUARTERS: Horse Guards, Whitehall, London. | ||||||
| RECRUITMENT AREA: Nationwide. | ||||||
| Emblazoned Battle | War of Austrian Succession (1740-8): Dettingen. | |||||
| Honours | Peninsular War (1808-14): 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 1914-18. | ||||||
| Second World War: Souleuvre; Brussels; Nederrijn; Northwest Europe 1944-5; Iraq 1941; Palmyra; Syria 1941; El Alamein; North Africa 1942-3; Italy 1944. | ||||||
| Accredited Battle Honours | Great War: Retreat from Mons; Armentières 1914; Langemarck 1914; Gheluvelt; Nonne Bosschen; St Julien; Frezenberg; Albert 1916; Scarpe 1917, 1918; Broodseinde; Poelcapelle; Passchendaele; Bapaume 1918; Epéhy; St Quentin Canal; Beaurevoir; Cambrai 1918; Selle. | |||||
| Second World War: Mont Pinçon; Noireau Crossing; Amiens 1944; Neerpelt; Nijmegen; Lingen; Bentheim; Baghdad 1941; Arezzo; Advance to Florence; Gothic Line. | ||||||
| Memorials | Chapel (Egyptian Campaign 1882); Memorial (South Africa 1899-1902); Screen and altar rails (Great War); eight-bell carillon and roll of honour (Second World War); two plaques (Cyprus 1956-9, 1964): Holy Trinity Church, Windsor. Memorial book and cloister: Guards' Chapel, Wellington Barracks, London. Memorial (First Battle of Ypres 1915): Zandvoorde, Belgium. Two pews (Second World War): chapel, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. Plaque (Great War): Scottish National War Memorial, Edinburgh. Monument (Waterloo 1815, Major R. C. Packe): St George's Chapel, Windsor. | |||||
| Dress | DIFFERENCES: Blue dress cap, scarlet band and piping, gold braid edging on peak according to rank; blue side cap, scarlet top, piped yellow. | |||||
| REGIMENTAL TIE: Dull red and navy stripes. | ||||||
| Marches | Trot past: Keel Row. | |||||
| Quick: Milanollo and Men of Harlech. | ||||||
| Slow: The Life Guards Slow March and Men of Harlech. | ||||||
| Alliances | The President's Bodyguard, of Pakistan. (Household Cavalry) Associated regular regiment of C (Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry) Sqnl The Royal Yeomanry; Band (Inns of Court and City Yeomanry), The Royal Yeomanry. | |||||
| Journal | The Acorn (once a year). | |||||
| Associations | The Life Guards Association. | |||||
| Museum | Household Cavalry Museum, Combermere Barracks, St Leonard's Rd, Windsor, Berkshire (tel 0753 868222 ext 203); open Monday-Friday 1000-1300, 1400-1700. | |||||
| Record Office | Except officers: Horse Guards, Whitehall, London; officers: MS(AODO), London Rd, Stanmore, Middlesex. |
