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British Army cavalry regiment
Military unit
The 1st Regiment of Life Guards was a
cavalry regiment in the British Army, part of the
Household Cavalry. It was formed in 1788 by the union of the
1st Troop of Horse Guards and 1st Troop of
Horse Grenadier Guards. In 1922, it was amalgamated with the
2nd Life Guards to form
The Life Guards.
History
The regiment was formed in 1788 by the union of the
1st Troop of Horse Guards and 1st Troop of
Horse Grenadier Guards.
[1] It fought in the
Peninsular War and at the
Waterloo. In 1877, it was renamed 1st Life Guards and contributed to the
Household Cavalry Composite Regiment in the
Anglo-Egyptian War, in the
Second Boer War and in the
First World War from August to November 1914. From 1916 to 1918, the Reserve Regiment contributed to the
Household Battalion. In 1918, the regiment was converted to the 1st Battalion,
Guards Machine Gun Regiment. It was reconstituted in 1919 and was amalgamated with the
2nd Life Guards in 1922 to form
The Life Guards.
[2]
Battle honours
The battle honours of the regiment were:
[2]
- Early Wars:
Dettingen,
Peninsula,
Waterloo,
Tel-el-Kebir,
Egypt 1882,
Relief of Kimberley,
Paardeberg,
South Africa 1899–1900
- The Great War:
Mons,
Le Cateau,
Retreat from Mons,
Marne 1914,
Aisne 1914,
Messines 1914,
Armentières 1914,
Ypres 1914
'15
'17,
Langemarck 1914,
Gheluvelt,
Nonne Bosschen,
St. Julien,
Frezenberg,
Somme 1916,
Albert 1916,
Arras 1917
'18,
Scarpe 1917
'18,
Broodseinde,
Poelcappelle,
Passchendaele,
Hindenburg Line,
Cambrai 1918,
France and Flanders 1914–18
Colonels-in-Chief
The Colonels-in-Chief of the regiment were:
[2]
- 1815–1830: King George IV
- 1831–1837: King William IV
[3]
- 1837–1880: vacant
- 1880–1910: F.M. King Edward VII
[4]
- 1910–1922: F.M. King George V
Regimental Colonels
The colonels of the regiment were:
[2]
- 1788–1789: Gen.
William John Kerr, 5th Marquess of Lothian, KT
- 1789–1792: Gen. Sir
Joseph Yorke, 1st Baron Dover, KB
- 1792–1829: Gen.
Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Harrington, GCH
- 1829–1865: F.M. Sir
Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere, GCB, GCH, KSI
- 1865–1888: F.M.
George Charles Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, GCB
- 1888–1902: F.M.
Prince William Augustus Edward of Saxe-Weimar, KP, GCB, GCVO
- 1902–1907: Lt-Gen.
Dudley FitzGerald-de Ros, 24th Baron de Ros, KP, KCVO
[5]
- 1907–1920: F.M. Sir
Francis Grenfell, 1st Baron Grenfell, GCB, GCMG
- 1920–1922: F.M. Sir
Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, GCB, GCMG, GCVO
See also
References
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