THE ROYAL HORSE GUARDS (THE BLUES) |
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| History | Raised in 1661 as the Royal Regiment of Horse (The Royal Regiment of Horse Guards in 1689). | |||||
| MOTTO: Honi soit qui mal y pense (Evil be to him who evil thinks). | ||||||
| Emblazoned Battle | War of Austrian Succession (1740-8): Dettingen. | |||||
| Honours | Seven Years War (175663): Warburg. | |||||
| French Revolutionary Wars (1793-1802): Beaumont. | ||||||
| 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: Le Cateau; Marne 1914; Messines 1914; Ypres 1914, 1915, 1917; Gheluvelt; Frezenberg; Loos; Arras 1917; Sambre; France and Flanders 1914-18. | ||||||
| Second World War: Souleuvre; Brussels; Nederrijn; North-West Europe 1944-5; Iraq 1941; Palmyra; Syria 1941; El Alamein; North Africa 1942-3; Italy 1944. | ||||||
| Accredited Battle Honours | Great War: Mons; Retreat from Mons; Aisne 1914; Armentières 1914; Langemarck 1914; Nonne Bosschen; St Julien; Scarpe 1917; Broodseinde; Poelcapelle; Passchendaele; Hindenburg Line; Cambrai 1918. | |||||
| Second World War: Mont Pinçon; Noireau Crossing; Amiens 1944; Neerpelt; Nijmegen; Lingen; Bentheim; Baghdad 1941; Arezzo; Advance to Florence; Gothic Line. | ||||||
| Marches | Quick: The Royal Horse Guards March and March of the Priests from Aida. | |||||
| Journal | The Blues. | |||||
| Museum | Household Cavalry Museum, Combermere Barracks, St Leonard's Rd, Windsor, Berkshire (tel 0753 868222 ext 203): open Monday-Friday 1000-1300, 1400-1700. |