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The Scots Guards (SG) is a regiment
Regiment

A regiment is a military unit, composed of variable numbers of battalions, commanded by a Colonel. Depending on the nation, military branch, mission, and organization, a modern regiment resembles a brigade, in that both range in size from a few hundred to 5,000 soldiers ....
 of the Guards Division
Guards Division

The Guards Division is an administrative unit of the British Army responsible for the administration of the regiments of Foot Guards.The Headquarters of the Guards Division is in London, along with the RHQs of each regiment....
 of the British Army
British Army

The British Army is the Army branch of the British Armed Forces. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdoms of Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707....
, whose origins lie in the personal bodyguard of King Charles I of England and Scotland. Its lineage can be traced as far back as 1642, although it was only placed on the English Establishment (thus becoming part of what is now the British Army) in 1686.

It is not to be confused with the Garde Écossaise
Garde Écossaise

The Scots Guards or Garde ?cossaise was an elite Kingdom of Scotland military unit founded in 1418 by the Valois Charles VII of France, to be personal bodyguards to the French monarchy....
, which was an elite Scots military unit founded c.






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The Scots Guards (SG) is a regiment
Regiment

A regiment is a military unit, composed of variable numbers of battalions, commanded by a Colonel. Depending on the nation, military branch, mission, and organization, a modern regiment resembles a brigade, in that both range in size from a few hundred to 5,000 soldiers ....
 of the Guards Division
Guards Division

The Guards Division is an administrative unit of the British Army responsible for the administration of the regiments of Foot Guards.The Headquarters of the Guards Division is in London, along with the RHQs of each regiment....
 of the British Army
British Army

The British Army is the Army branch of the British Armed Forces. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdoms of Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707....
, whose origins lie in the personal bodyguard of King Charles I of England and Scotland. Its lineage can be traced as far back as 1642, although it was only placed on the English Establishment (thus becoming part of what is now the British Army) in 1686.

It is not to be confused with the Garde Écossaise
Garde Écossaise

The Scots Guards or Garde ?cossaise was an elite Kingdom of Scotland military unit founded in 1418 by the Valois Charles VII of France, to be personal bodyguards to the French monarchy....
, which was an elite Scots military unit founded c. 1420 by the Valois Charles VII of France
Charles VII of France

File:Charles VII Franc a cheval 1422 1423.jpgCharles VII , called the Victorious or the Well-Served , was List of French monarchs from 1422 to his death, though he was initially opposed by Henry VI of England, whose Regent ruled much of France from Paris....
, to be personal body-guards to the French Monarchy, and which were finally disbanded in 1830 at the abdication of Charles X of France
Charles X of France

Charles X ruled as List of French monarchs and List of Navarrese monarchs from 20 May 1824 until the July Revolution, when he Abdication. He was the last king of the senior House of Bourbon line to reign over France....
. These long predated the British regiment.

The Scots Guards is ranked as the third regiment of Foot Guards
Foot Guards

Foot guards is a term used to describe elite infantry regiments....
; as such, Scots Guardsmen can be recognised by having the buttons on their tunics spaced in threes. The regiment consists of a single operational battalion, which is currently (2008) based in Catterick
Catterick Garrison

Catterick Garrison is a major Army base located in Northern England. It is the largest British Army garrison in the world with a population of around 12,000, plus a large temporary population of soldiers, and is larger than its older neighbour...
 in the armoured infantry role. However, since 1993, the regiment has also maintained an independent company, F Company
Guards Incremental Companies

The Guards Division of the British Army contains a total of five battalions, one from each of the five regiments of Foot Guards. However, before the Options for Change defence review in 1992, there were eight battalions:...
, permanently based in Chelsea Barracks
Chelsea Barracks

Chelsea Barracks was a British Army barracks located in the City of Westminster, London, adjacent to Chelsea, London, on Chelsea Bridge Road.It was originally built to house two battalions of troops....
, London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
 on public duties
Public duties

Public duties are performed by military personnel, and usually have a ceremonial or historic significance rather than an overtly operational role....
. It is the custodian of the colours and traditions of the 2nd Battalion, which was placed in permanent suspended animation in 1993.

Battle honours

  • Pre-First World War: Namur 1695
    Siege of Namur

    The siege of Namur refers to a number of sieges throughout history of the Belgian city of Namur .The city and citadel of Namur held a strategic position in the heart of Europe....
    , Dettingen
    Battle of Dettingen

    The Battle of Dettingen took place on 27 June 1743 at Karlstein am Main in Bavaria during the War of the Austrian Succession. It was the last time that a British monarch, George II of Great Britain, personally led his troops into battle....
    , Lincelles, Egypt
    Egypt

    Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. Covering an area of about , Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west....
    , Talavera, Barrosa
    Battle of Barrosa

    The Battle of Barrosa was an unsuccessful French attack on a larger Anglo-Spanish force attempting to lift the siege of C?diz, Spain during the Peninsular War....
    , Fuentes d'Onor, Salamanca
    Battle of Salamanca

    The Battle of Salamanca saw an United Kingdom-Spain-Portugal army under General Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington defeat Marshal Auguste Marmont's France forces among the hills around Arapiles, Salamanca south of Salamanca, Spain on July 22 1812 during the Peninsular War....
    , Nive
    Battle of the Nive

    The Battles of the Nive were fought towards the end of the Peninsular War. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington's Anglo-Portuguese-Spanish army defeated Marshal Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult's French army in a series of battles near the city of Bayonne....
    , Peninsula, Waterloo
    Battle of Waterloo

    In the Battle of Waterloo forces of the First French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte and Michel Ney were defeated by those of the Seventh Coalition, including a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Bl?cher and an Anglo-Allied army under the command of the Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington....
    , Alma
    Battle of Alma

    The Battle of the Alma , which is usually considered the first battle of the Crimean War , took place in the vicinity of the Alma River in the Crimea....
    , Inkerman
    Battle of Inkerman

    The Battle of Inkerman, a battle of the Crimean War, was fought on November 5, 1854 and resulted in a British and France victory under General Pierre Bosquet against the Russian forces under Aleksandr Sergeyevich Menshikov....
    , Sevastopol
    Siege of Sevastopol (1854-1855)

    The Siege of Sevastopol was a major siege during the Crimean War, lasting from September 1854 until September 1855. Leo Tolstoy's early book The Sebastopol Sketches detailed the siege in a mixture of reportage and Short story....
    , Tel-er-Kebir
    Battle of Tel al-Kebir

    The Battle of Tel el-Kebir or el-Tal el-Kebir was between the Egyptian Urabi Revolt led by Ahmed Urabi and the British military fought near Tel-el-Kebir....
    , Egypt 1882
    Urabi Revolt

    The Urabi Revolt or Orabi Revolt , also known as the Orabi Revolution, was an uprising in Egypt in 1879-82 against the Khedive and European influence in the country....
    , Suakin 1885
    Suakin

    Suakin is a port in north eastern Sudan, on the Red Sea. It was formerly the region's chief port on the Red Sea, but is now a secondary port to Port Sudan, which lies about 30 miles to the north....
    , Modder River
    Battle of Modder River

    The Battle of Modder River was an engagement in the Second Boer War, fought at Modder River, Northern Cape, on 28 November 1899. A British Empire column under Paul Sanford Methuen, 3rd Baron Methuen which was attempting to relieve the besieged town of Kimberley, Northern Cape forced Boers under General Piet Cronje to retreat but suffered heav...
    , South Africa 1899–1902
    Second Boer War

    The Second Boer War , commonly referred to as The Boer War and also known as the South African War , the Anglo-Boer War and in Afrikaans as the Boereoorlog or Tweede Vryheidsoorlog , was fought from 11 October 1899 until 31 May 1902, between the British Empire and the two independent Boer republics of the Orange Fre...
  • First World War:
    • Western Front: Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914
      First Battle of the Marne

      The First Battle of the Marne was a World War I battle fought between the 5th and 12th of September 1914. It resulted in a France-United Kingdom victory against the German Empire Wehrmacht under Chief of Staff Helmuth von Moltke the Younger....
      , Aisne 1914
      First Battle of the Aisne

      The First Battle of the Aisne was the Allies follow-up offensive against the right wing of the German First Army & German Second Army as they retreated after the First Battle of the Marne earlier in September 1914....
      , Ypres 1914
      First Battle of Ypres

      }|-||}The First Battle of Ypres, also called the Battle of Flanders, was the last major battle of the first year of World War I ; actually a series of battles, starting on 19 October and ending, according to the various histories, on 13 November , 22 November or 30 November ....
       1917
      Passchendaele

      The Battle of Passchendaele, or Third Battle of Ypres was one of the major battles of World War I. The battle consisted of a series of operations starting in June 1917 and petering out in November 1917 in which Entente troops under British command attacked the German Empire Army ....
      , Langemarck 1914
      Battle of Langemarck

      Battle of Langemarck can refer to :* Battle of Langemarck : part of the First Battle of Ypres* Third Battle of Ypres#Battle of Langemarck : part of the Third Battle of Ypres...
      , Gheluvelt, Nonne Bosschen, Givenchy 1914
      Battle of Givenchy

      Battle of Givenchy was a battle fought during World War I that saw an initially advancing United Kingdom force face strong opposition and counter-attack from a solidly entrenched Germany force around the village of Givenchy_%28disambiguation%29....
      , Neuve Chapelle
      Battle of Neuve Chapelle

      The Battles of Neuve Chapelle and Artois was a battle in the First World War. It was a British offensive in the Artois region and broke through at Neuve-Chapelle but they were unable to exploit the advantage....
      , Aubers, Festubert 1915
      Battle of Festubert

      The Battle of Festubert was an attack by the British army in the Artois region of France on the Western Front during World War I. It began on May 15, 1915 and continued until May 25....
      , Loos
      Battle of Loos

      The Battle of Loos was one of the major United Kingdom offensives mounted on the Western Front in 1915 during World War I. It marked the first time the British used Poison gas in World War I during the war, and is also famous for the fact that it witnessed the first large-scale use of new army or "Kitchener's Army" units....
      , Somme 1916 1918, Flers Courcelette
      Battle of Flers-Courcelette

      The Battle of Flers-Courcelette, which began on 15 September, 1916 and lasted for one week, was the third and last of the large-scale offensives mounted by the British Army during the Battle of the Somme ....
      , Morval
      Battle of Morval

      The Battle of Morval, which began on 25 September, 1916, was an attack by the British Fourth Army on the Germany-held villages of Morval, Gueudecourt and Lesboeufs during the Battle of the Somme ....
      , Pilckem, Poelcapelle, Cambrai 1917 1918
      Battle of Cambrai (1918)

      The 1918 Battle of Cambrai, also referred to as The 2nd Battle of Cambrai, was an engagement fought between troops of the Canadian Corps, British British First Army and British Third Army Armies and German Empire forces....
      , St. Quentin, Albert 1918
      Battle of Albert

      The Battle of Albert is the name of three battles fought near the town of Albert, France in the Somme d?partement of northern France during World War I:...
      , Bapaume 1918, Arras 1918, Drocourt-Quéant, Hindenburg Line
      Hindenburg Line

      The Hindenburg Line was a vast system of defenses in northeastern France during World War I. It was constructed by the Germanys during the winter of 1916–17....
      , Havrincourt
      Battle of Havrincourt

      The Battle of Havrincourt was a World War I battle fought on September 12, 1918, involving the British Third Army against German Empire troops, including those of the 3rd and 10th Corps, in the town of Havrincourt, France....
      , Canal du Nord
      Battle of the Canal du Nord

      The Battle of Canal du Nord was a military offensive of World War I by the British First Army and British Third Army against the German troops along the Western Front in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France, from 27 September 1918 to 1 October 1918....
      , Selle, Sambre
      Battle of the Sambre

      The Battle of the Sambre refers to two battles fought along the Sambre River during World War I:* Battle of the Sambre , commonly known as the Battle of Charleroi...
      , France and Flanders 1914–18
      Western Front

      Western Front was a term used during the World War I and World War II world war to describe the "contested armed frontier" between lands controlled by Germany to the East and the Allies to the West....
  • Second World War:
    • North-West Europe: Stien, Norway 1940, Quarry Hill
      Quarry Hill

      Quarry Hill is the name of several places in the world:*Quarry Hill, Leeds, Leeds, England*Quarry Hill, Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong*Quarry Hill, Bendigo, Bendigo, Australia...
      , Estry
      Estry

      Estry is a Communes of the Calvados d?partement in the Calvados d?partement in France in the Basse-Normandie r?gion in France of France. Its postal code is 14410. The INSEE code is 14253....
      , Venlo Pocket, Rhineland
      Rhineland

      The Rhineland is the general name for the land on both sides of the river Rhine in the west of Germany. After the collapse of the First French Empire in the early 19th century, the German-speaking regions at the middle and lower course of the Rhine were annexed to the kingdom of Prussia....
      , Reichswald
      Reichswald

      A Reichswald or Imperial forest, designates any of several historic woodlands under imperial protection in the lands of the former Holy Roman Empire....
      , Kleve
      Kleve

      Kleve, traditionally known in English language and French language as Cleves, Kleef in Dutch language, is a city in the north-west of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany, near the Netherlands border and the River Rhine, at ....
      , Moyland, Hochwald, Rhine
      Rhine

      File:Swiss Grand Canyon.jpgThe Rhine is one of the longest and most important rivers in Europe, at , with an average discharge of more than ....
      , Lingen
      Lingen

      Lingen is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany. In 2008 the population was 52.353 in addition about 5,000 secondary residents. Lingen, specifically "Lingen " , is located on the river Ems in the southern part of the Emsland county and district respectively, which is bordering to North Rhine-Westphalia in the south and to the Netherlands in the w...
      , Uelzen
      Uelzen

      Uelzen is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, capital of the Uelzen .The Polabian language name of Uelzen is Wilcaus , possibly derived from wilca or wilsa ?alder?....
      , North-West Europe 1944–45
    • North Africa: Halfaya 1941, Sidi Suleiman, Tobruk 1941, Gazala
      Battle of Gazala

      The Battle of Gazala was an important battle of the World War II Western Desert Campaign, fought around the port of Tobruk in Libya from May 26 to June 21, 1942....
      , Knightsbridge
      Knightsbridge

      Knightsbridge is a road which gives its name to an exclusive district lying to the west of Central London. The road runs along the south side of Hyde Park, London, west from Hyde Park Corner, spanning the City of Westminster and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea....
      , Defence of Alamein Line, Medenine
      Medenine

      Medenine is the major town in southeastern Tunisia, south of the Oasis town of Gab?s and the Island of Djerba, on the main route to Libya. It is located at around ....
      , Tadjera Khir, Medjez Plain, Grich el Oued, Djebel Bou Aoukaz 1943 I, North Africa 1941–43
      North African campaign

      During World War II, the North African Campaign took place in North Africa from 10 June 1940 to 16 May 1943. It included campaigns fought in the Libya and Egypt deserts and in Morocco and Algeria and Tunisia ....
      ,
    • Italy: Salerno
      Salerno

      Salerno is a town in southern Italy, capital of the Province of Salerno of the same name, in the region of Campania. It is located on the Gulf of Salerno on the Tyrrhenian Sea....
      , Battipaglia
      Battipaglia

      Battipaglia is a town and comune in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy, with some 51,000 inhabitants....
      , Volturno Crossing, Rocchetta e Croce
      Rocchetta e Croce

      Rocchetta e Croce is a comune in the Province of Caserta in the Italy region Campania, located about 45 km north of Naples and about 25 km northwest of Caserta....
      , Monte Camino, Campoleone, Carroceto, Trasimene Line
      Trasimene Line

      The Trasimene Line was a German defensive line during the Italian Campaign of World War II. It was also sometimes known as the Albert Line....
      , Advance to Florence
      Florence

      Florence is the Capital city of the Italy Regions of Italy of Tuscany and of the provinces of Italy Province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany and has a population of 364,779 ....
      , Monte San Michele, Catarelto Ridge, Argenta Gap, Italy 1943–45
      Italian Campaign (World War II)

      The Italian Campaign of World War II was the name of Allies operations in and around Italy, from History of Italy as a monarchy and in the World Wars#Italy and the Second World War ....
  • Post WWII: Tumbledown Mountain
    Battle of Mount Tumbledown

    The Battle of Mount Tumbledown was an engagement in the Falklands War, one of a series of battles that took place during the British advance towards Stanley, Falkland Islands....
    , Falkland Islands 1982
    Falklands War

    The Falklands War , also called the Falklands Conflict/Crisis, was fought in 1982 between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the disputed Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands....
    , Gulf 1991


Alliances

  • - 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment
    3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment

    The 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment is an Australian Airborne forces battalion based in Sydney. 3 RAR was initially formed in 1945 as the Australian 67th Battalion and has seen active service in Japan, Korea, Malaya, South Vietnam and East Timor....
  • - HMS Sceptre
    HMS Sceptre (S104)

    The fifth HMS Sceptre is a Swiftsure class submarine built by Vickers in Barrow-in-Furness. She was ship commissioning on 14 February 1978, by Lady Audrey White....


Order of Precedence


External links

  • - Containing the history of the five regiments of Foot Guards, Wellington Barracks, London.