1650 George Moncks Regiment, raised for service in Parliiamentary Army in Northumberland from five companies of George Fenwick's Regiment and five companies of Sir Arthur Hesrilige's Regiment (Hazlerigg)

1660 The Duke of Albemarle's Regiment of Foot, or The Lord General's Regiment. (transferred to the Kings service)

1661 Lord General's Regiment of Foot Guards. Elevated to Guards status and placed on British Establishment.

1670 Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards

1855 Coldstream Guards.

(above text courtesy of: Land Forces of Britain, The Empire and Commonwealth

 

Battle Honours WW1 (5 Battalions)

Mons, Marne, Aisne, Ypres, Langemarck, Gheluvelt, Nonne Bosschen, Neuve Chappelle, Aubers, Festubert, Loos, Mount Sorrel, Somme, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Pilckem, Menin Road, Poelcappelle, Passchendale, Cambrai, St Quentin, Bapaume, Arras, Lys, Hazebrouck, Albert, Scarpe, Drocourt-Queant, Hindenberg Line, Havrincourt, Canal du Nord, Selle, Sambre, France & Flanders.

Battle Honours WW2

Dyle, Defence of Escaut, Dunkirk, Cagny, Mont Pincon, Quarry Hill, Estry, Hepper, Nederrijn, Venraij, Meijel, Roer, Rhineland, Reichswald, Cleve, Goch, Moyland, Hochwald, Rhine, Lingen, Uelzen, North West Europe, Egyptian Frontier, Sidi Barrani, Halfaya, Tobruk, Msus, Knightsbridge, Defence of Alamein Line, Medenine, Mareth, Longstop Hill, Sbiba, Steamroller Farm, Tunis, Hammam, North Africa, Salerno, Battipaglia, Cappezano, Volturno Crossing, Monte Camino, Calabritto, Garigliano Crossing, Monte Ornito, Monte Piccolo, Capture of Perugia, Arezzo, Advance to Florence, Monte Domino, Catrelto Ridge, Argenta Gap, Italy.

Gulf 1991

Guards Museum (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)

Deployment

1st Battalion

1881 Ireland: Dublin
1882 London: Wellington Barracks
1884 London: Chelsea
1885 Sudan (Suakin expedition)
1886 London: Wellington Barracks
1890 Ireland: Dublin
1893 England: Windsor
1895 London: Wellington Barracks
1896 London: Tower
Gibraltar
1899.11 at sea ship: Malta
1899.11.16 South Africa 1 Inf Bde(Gds)
1900.04 South Africa 1 Inf Bde(Gds), 9 Div
1902 England: Aldershot
1903 England: Windsor
1904 London: Wellington Barracks
1906 London: Chelsea
1908 England: Aldershot
1919 England: Windsor
1911 London: Wellington Barracks
1911.06.29 Coronation of George V: street lining
1912 London: Chelsea
1914 England: Aldershot 1 Bde
1914.08 France and Flanders 1 Div
1915.08 France and Flanders Gds Div
1919 England: Warley
1921 London
1924 England: Aldershot 1 Bde
1930 London: Wellington Barracks
1931 Egypt
1933 England: Warley
1934 England: Aldershot 1 Bde
1936 London: Wellington Barracks
1938 London: Chelsea 7 Bde
1939.09 France & Belgium 3 Inf Div
1940.06 UK
1941.10.21 1st (Armoured) Battalion, Coldstream Guards
converted to tanks
1941.09 UK Gds Armd Div
1944.06 NW Europe Gds Armd Div
1945.06.11 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards
converted back to infantry
1946 London
1948.02 Palestine 1 Gds Bde
1950.07 London
1951.01 32 Gds Bde, 3 Div
1952 (Canal Zone, Egypt)
1954 England: Tidworth 2 Inf Bde
1956.11 London
1960 England: Lydd
1961.11 London
1962.10 (West Indies)
1963.07 London
1964 (Libya)
1964. London
1964.07 Germany: Iserlohn 4 Gds Bde
1965.10 (Aden) Aden Bde
1966.04 Germany: Iserlohn 4 Gds Bde
1967.02 London
1967.12 England: Tidworth ACE
1970.12 (Northern Ireland)
1971.04 England: Tidworth ACE
1971.05 London
1971.10 (Northern Ireland)
1972.02 London
1972.07 (Northern Ireland)
1972.09 London
1972.10 Berlin Berlin Bde
1975.05 London
1975.10 (Northern Ireland)
1976.03 London
1977.11 Germany: Fallingbostel 1 Armd Div
1978.10 (Northern Ireland)
1979.02 Fallingbostel 1 Armd Div
1981.01 London
1982.11 (Northern Ireland)
1983.01 London
1984.07 Falkland Islands
1984.11 London
1986.02 Hong Kong
1988.02 London
1988.09 (Northern Ireland)
1989.01 London
1991.11 Germany: Münster 4 Armd Bde
1991 (Persian Gulf)
1991 Münster 4 Armd Bde
1992.07 (Northern Ireland)
1992.12 Münster 4 Armd Bde
1993.10 (Bosnia)
1994.05 Münster 4 Armd Bde
1996.04 (Northern Ireland)
1996.11 Münster 4 Armd Bde
1998.02 London
1999.06 (Northern Ireland)
1999.12 London
2001.02 Northern Ireland: Londonderry
2003.02 London (Pirbright Barracks) 12 Mech Bde
2003.09 Aldershot (Lille Barracks) 12 Mech Bde
2005 Iraq 12 Mech Bde
2005.10 Aldershot (Lille Barracks) 12 Mech Bde


2nd Battalion

1881 London
1882 Egypt
1884 London: Chelsea
1885 London: Tower
1889 London: Chelsea
1892 London: Wellington Barracks
1894 London: Chelsea
1897 England: Windsor
at sea ship: Gascon
1899.11.12 South Africa 1 Inf Bde(Gds)
1900.04 South Africa 1 Inf Bde(Gds), 9 Div
1902 England: Aldershot
1904 London: Wellington Barracks
1906 England: Aldershot
1908 London: Chelsea
1910 England: Aldershot
1911 London: Wellington Barracks
1911.06.29 Coronation of George V: street lining
1913 London: Chelsea
1914 England: Windsor 4 Bde
1914.08 France and Flanders 2 Div
1915.08 France and Flanders Gds Div
1919 London: Chelsea
1922 England: Aldershot 1 Bde
1924 England: Warley
1927 Shanghai
1928 England: Aldershot 1 Bde
1929 England: Windsor
1931 London: Chelsea 4 Bde
1932 Egypt
1933 Warley
1934 England: Aldershot 1 Bde
1936 London: Wellington Barracks 4 Bde
1938 England: Aldershot 1 Bde
1939.09 France & Belgium 1 Gds Bde, 1 Inf Div, BEF
1940.06 UK 1 Gds Bde
1941.06 UK 1 Gds Bde, 78 Inf Div
1942.11 Tunisia 1 Gds Bde
1943.02 Tunisia 1 Gds Bde, 6 Armd Div
1944.03 Italy 1 Gds Bde
1945.03 Italy 24 Gds Bde
1946 ?
1948.02 UK 2 Gds Bde
1948.10 Malaya 2 Gds Bde
1950.07 London
1952.11 Germany: Krefeld 4 Gds Bde
1956.03 London
1960.06 Kenya
1962.03 London
1964.10 (Aden) 24 Inf Bde
1965.10 UK
1969.03 Germany: Münster 4 Armd Bde
1970.07 (Northern Ireland)
1970.11 Münster 4 Armd Bde
1972.02 London
1972.12 (Northern Ireland)
1973.03 London
1976.09 Northern Ireland: Londonderry 8 Inf Bde
1978.04 London
1978.10 (Northern Ireland)
1979.02 London
1980.12 Germany: Fallingbostel 1 Armd Div
1982.01 Germany: Fallingbostel 22 Armd Bde
1982.03 (Northern Ireland)
1982.08 Germany: Fallingbostel 22 Armd Bde
1983.12 London
1984 (Belize)
1984.03 London
1986.07 (Northern Ireland)
1986.09 London
1986 Hong Kong
1988.02 Cyprus
1990.02 London
1993.12.31 disbanded (permanent suspended animation), forming "incremental" No. 7 Coy (attached to 1st Bn, Irish Guards) for Public Duties

3rd Battalion

1897.11.16 3rd Battalion, Coldstream Guards
formed at Cambridge Barracks, Woolwich (HQ Coy formed 1.12.1897 at Cannon St)
1897.12 London
1898.07.05 Colours presented by Queen Victoria at Aldershot
1903 London: Chelsea
1904 England: Aldershot
1906.09.29 Egypt & Sudan (Khartoum)
1911.03.23 at sea
1911 England: Aldershot
1911.06.29 Coronation of George V: street lining
1912 England: Windsor
1914 London: Chelsea 4 Bde
1914.08.12 France and Flanders 2 Div
1915.08 France and Flanders Gds Div
1918.04 France and Flanders 31 Div
1918.05 France and Flanders GHQ Troops
1918.11 Germany Army of Occupation
1919 London: Wimbledon
1911.07.02 Colours presented by King George V
1919.06.03 Trooped Colour, Sovereign's Birthday
1921 England: Aldershot
1922.09.26 at sea
1922 Turkey: Contantinople Army of the Black Sea
1923 London
1924 England: Aldershot
1929 London 4 Bde
1931 Aldershot
1932 London: Wellington Barracks
1933 London: Chelsea 4 Bde
1934 England: Warley
1936 Aldershot
1936.07.16 Colours presented by King Edward VIII in Hyde Park, London
1936.10.03 Palestine
1936.12.30 Egypt: Alexandria (Mustapha Barracks)
1938.10.14 Palestine
1939.04.12 Egypt
1939.09 Egypt
1940.07 Middle East 22 Gds Bde (motorised)
1942.02 North Africa 200 Gds Bde
1942.06.14 captured by the Germans at Tobruk, less some personnel escaped to Egypt
1942.08 reconstituted in Egypt
1942.08 Egypt 201 Gds Bde
1942.09 Syria 10 Armd Div
1942.02 North Africa 201 Gds Bde
1944.03 Italy 24 Gds Bde
1945.04.01 at sea
1945.04 England
1945.10.07 at sea
1945.10 Palestine 1 Gds Bde
1948.03.16 at sea
1948.06 England: ?
1948.06 Aldershot Guards Junior Leader Bn
1949.05 London
1950.06.08 Trooped Colour, Sovereign's Birthday
1950.07.05 Colours presented by King George VI at Horse Guards Parade
1950.09.02 at sea
1950.09 Libya: Tripoli (Gailo Barracks)
1951.11.02 Egypt: Canal Zone & Tel-el-Kebir 1 Gds Bde
1952.02.22 Fanara (Berwick Camp)
1953.03 Jordan: Eilat (No.4 Coy)
1953.08 Egypt: Fanara 1 Gds Bde
1953.12.24 at sea
1954 London
1957.02 Germany: Hubblerath 4 Gds Bde
1959.02 London: Wellington Barracks
1959.06 Trooped Colour, Sovereign's Birthday
1959.09.01 final parade
1959.12.31 disbanded (permanent suspended animation