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1642 Marquis of Argyll's Royal Regiment
1650 Foote Regiment of His Majestie's Lyffe Guard


1651 disbanded

1660.11.23 six independent companies in Scotland
1661.05.01 Scots Regiment of Foot Guards
(also known as The King's Regiment, The King's Foot Guards, or Scotch Guards)
1686 placed on English Establishment, ranking as 3rd Foot Guards
1713 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards
1831.04.29 Scots Fusilier Guards
1877.04.03 Scots Guards

Battle Honours WW1 (3 Battalions)
Mons, Marne, Aisne, Ypres, Langemarck, Gheluvelt, Nonne Bosschen, Givenchy, Neuve Chappelle, Aubers, Festubert, Loos, Somme, Flers Courcelette, Morval, Pilckem, Poelcappelle, Passchendale, Cambrai, St Quentin, Albert, Bapaume, Arras, Drocourt Queant, Hindenberg Line, Havrincourt, Canal Du Nord, Selle, Sambre, France & Flanders.

Battle Honours WW2
Stien, Norway, Quarry Hill, Estry, Venlo Pocket, Rhineland, Reichswald, Cleve, Moyland, Hochwald, Rhine, Lingen, Uelzen, North West Europe, Halfaya, Sidi Suleiman, Tobruk, Gazala, Knightsbridge, Alamein Line, Medenline, Tadjera Khir, Medjez Plain, Grich el Oued, Dejbel Bou Aoukaz, North Africa, Salerno, Battipaglia, Volturno Crossing, Roccheta e Croce, Monte Camino, Anzio, Campoleone, Carroceto, Trasimene Line, Advance to Florence, Monte San Michele, Catarelto Ridge, Argenta Gap, Italy.

Falklands Islands 1982--- Tumbledown Mountain
Gulf ---1991

Guards Museum, London (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)

Deployment
1st Battalion

1831.04.29 1st Battalion, Scots Fusilier Guards
1854.09 Crimea
1856.06 UK
1877.04.03 1st Battalion, Scots Guards
1881 Ireland: Dublin
1882 Egypt
1884 London: Chelsea
1885 London: Wellington Barracks
1892 London: Chelsea
1896 London: Wellington Barracks
1897 Ireland: Dublin
1899.10.20 at sea ship: Nubia
1899.11.13 South Africa 1 Inf Bde(Gds)
1900.04 South Africa 1 Inf Bde(Gds), 9 Div
1902 England: Windsor
1903 England: Aldershot
1905 London: Chelsea
1908 London: Wellington Barracks
1910 London: Tower
1911 Egypt
1913 England: Aldershot 1 Bde
1914.08 France and Flanders 1 Div, BEF
1915.08 France and Flanders Gds Div
1919 England: Windsor
1923 England: Aldershot 1 Bde
1928 London: Chelsea 4 Bde
1931 England: Aldershot 1 Bde
1933 London: Tower 4 Bde
1936 Palestine 13 Bde
1937 England: Aldershot 1 Bde
1939 London
1939.09 UK 24 Gds Bde
1940.04.07 at sea
1940.04.15 Norway 24 Gds Bde, Rupertforce
1940.06.06 at sea
1940.06.11 UK
1943.03 North Africa : Tunisia 24 Gds Bde, 1 Inf Div
1943.12 Italy
1946 Trieste
1947 London
1951.01 London 32 Gds Bde, 3 Div
1951.09 Egypt & Cyprus
1954.12 England: Lydd 1 Gds Bde
1958.11 Germany: Hubblerath 4 Gds Bde
1961.01 England: Gravesend 19 Inf Bde
1962.06 England: London (Pirbright)
1964.10 Malaya 28 Commonwealth Bde
1965.01 Borneo
1965.05 Malaya 28 Commonwealth Bde
1965.09 Borneo
1966.01 Malaya 28 Commonwealth Bde
1966.02 at sea
1967.04 Scotland: Edinburgh
1969.01 London
1970.02 (Sharjah)
1970.11 London
1971.08 (Northern Ireland)
1971.12 London
1972.09 Germany: Münster 4 Bde
1973.05 (Northern Ireland)
1973.09 Germany: Münster 4 Bde
1975.04 (Northern Ireland)
1975.08 Germany: Münster 4 Bde
1976.01 London
1977.08 (Northern Ireland)
1977.09 London
1978.08 (Northern Ireland)
1978.12 London
1980.03 Northern Ireland: Aldergrove
1981.11 Hong Kong
1984.03 London
1986.09 (Northern Ireland)
1987.01 London
1988.02 Germany: Hohne 22 Armd Bde
1992.04 (Northern Ireland)
1992.11 Germany: Hohne 22 Armd Bde
1993.06 London
1996.04 Northern Ireland: Ballykinlar 39 Inf Bde
1998.04 England: Windsor
2001.04 Northern Ireland: Belfast
2001.09 England: Windsor
20uu Cyprus
2004.11 Iraq

2nd Battalion

1831.04.29 2nd Battalion, Scots Fusilier Guards
London
1861.12.19 at sea (embarked at Southampton) ship: Parana
1862.01.19 New Brunswick: St. John
1862.02.11 Canada: Montreal (Victoria Barracks)
1864 at sea
1864.10 England
1877.04.03 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards
1881 London: Chelsea
1883 London: Wellington Barracks
1885 Sudan (Suakin expedition)
1885.10 London
1889 London: Chelsea
1891 London: Wellington Barracks
1893 London: Tower
1895 Ireland: Dublin
1897 London: Wellington Barracks
1900.03.15 at sea ship: Britannic
1900.04.05 South Africa 16 Bde, 8 Div
1902 England: Aldershot
1905 London: Tower
1908 London: Wellington Barracks
1910 London: Chelsea
1911 England: Aldershot
1912 London: Wellington Barracks
1914 London: Tower
1914.10 France and Flanders 7 Div
1915.08 France and Flanders Gds Div
1919 London: Wimbledon
1921 England: Aldershot 1 Bde
1923 London: Hyde Park
1927 Shanghai
1929 England: Warley 4 Bde
1930 England: Aldershot 1 Bde
1932 London: Chelsea
1933 London: Tower
1935 London: Wellington Barracks
1936 England: Aldershot 1 Bde
1937 London 4 Bde
1938 Egypt
1939.09 UK 29 Bde
1939.10 Egypt 22 Gds Bde
1941.12 Libya 22 Gds Bde
1942.01.14 Libya 200 Gds Bde
1942.05.25 Libya 201 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
1943.01 Syria 10 Armd Div
1942.03 Egypt 201 Gds Bde
1944.04 UK 201 Gds Bde
1945.03 NW Europe Gds Armd Div
1946 Germany
London
1948.08 London 2 Gds Bde
1948.10 Malaya 2 Gds Bde
1950.07 Malaya 18 Inf Bde
1951.03 London
1953.07 Germany: Hubblerath 4 Gds Bde
1957.02 London
1958.11 Shorncliffe 1 Gds Bde
1959.04 England: Tidworth
1960.10 England: Tidworth 5 Inf Bde
1961.01 London
1962.02 Kenya 24 Inf Bde
1964.01.23 Uganda (one coy) 24 Inf Bde
1964.01.24 Kenya 24 Inf Bde
1964.02 Kenya 24 Inf Bde
1964.12 England: London
1967.01 Germany: Iserlohn 4 Armd Bde
1970.07 (Northern Ireland)
1970.03 England: Windsor
1971.04 reduced to 2 Scots Guards Company (attached to 1st Battalion)
1972.04 battalion reformed at Edinburgh
1972.05? England: London (Pirbright)
1972.07 (Northern Ireland)
1972.11 Pirbright
1973.11 (Northern Ireland)
1974.03 Pirbright
1976.01 Germany: Münster 4 Armd Bde
1976.10 (Northern Ireland)
1977.01 Germany: Münster 2 Armd Div
1979.04 London
1980.05 (Northern Ireland)
1980.10 London
1982.05 (Falkland Islands) 5 Inf Bde
1982.06 London
1984.01 Cyprus
1986.02 London
1987.10 (Northern Ireland)
1988.02 London
1990.03 (Northern Ireland)
1990.09 London
1992.02 Scotland: Edinburgh
1993.11 placed in suspended animation, forming "incremental" F Coy (attached to 1st Bn, Grenadier Guards) for Public Duties and custody of the Colours


 


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