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British Army - Guards war raised Battalions

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1st Life Guards/1st Battalion Guards Machine Gun Regiment; 2nd Life Guards/ 2nd battalion Guards machine Gun Regiment; Royal Horse Guards/The Blues; Guards Machine Gun Battalion.

Guards Battalions- war-raised Battalions
British Army - Guard's Division

Foot Guards Regiments

Including
(Reflecting historic name changes)

1st Battalion Guards Machine Gun Regiment

1st Life Guards (1818-1819) - also The Household Cavalry Regiment outside those dates

2nd Battalion Guards Machine Gun Regiment

2nd Life Guards (1818-1819) - also The Household Cavalry Regiment outside those dates

3rd Battalion Guards Machine Gun Regiment

4th Battalion Guards Machine Gun Regiment

6th (Machine Gun) Regiment of Foot Guards

Foot Guard Machine Gun Battalion

Guards Machine Gun Battalion formed 1918

Guards Machine Gun Regiment

Royal Horse Guards (1818-1819) - also The Household Cavalry Regiment outside those dates.

Please link profiles of those who served in the battalions listed above (see specific dates) to this project, regardless of rank, conflict or nationality. People of note can be individually listed in Alphabetical Order below.
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Regiments and Corps of the British Army

The Household Cavalry Regiment outside 1818-1819

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Guards - War raised Battalions

The guards provided Guard Battalions of Her Majesty's Reserve Regiments (HMRRs) during the Boer war and various other units during WW1 and WW2.

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The Guards Machine Gun Regiment*** was a regiment of the British Army. It was initially formed in 1915 when machine gun companies were formed in the Guards Division. In April 1917, the four companies were grouped together as a single battalion of the Machine Gun Guards, before being re-designated by Royal Warrant in May 1918 as the 6th, or Machine Gun, Regiment of Foot Guards. In June, the regiment was reorganised into battalions below:

4th and 5th Battalions, Guards Machine Gun Regiment (1917-1920)

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Timeline

1916 - Foot Guard Machine Gun Battalion formed
1918 - amalgamation with

1st Life Guards
2nd Life Guards
Royal Horse Guards (The Blues)

Renamed Guards Machine Gun Battalion
Divided into -

1st Battalion Guards Machine Gun Regiment (1918-1919)
2nd Battalion Guards Machine Gun Regiment (1918-1919)
3rd Battalion Guards Machine Gun Regiment (1918-1919)
4th Battalion Guards Machine Gun Regiment (1917-1920)

1919 1st, 2nd. and 3rd Battalions - In 1918, after the end of the war, the three Household Cavalry battalions resumed their old role as cavalry - these three battalions served with the 1st Army of the British Expeditionary Force.

See The Household Cavalry Regiment

1919- 4th Battalion Guards Machine Gun Regiment -The 4th Battalion remained with the Guards Division Re-designated 6th (Machine Gun) Regiment of Foot Guards or Guards Machine Gun Regiment

'''1919''' - Badge introduced

1920 Dis-banded

The regimental establishment of HQ and four machine gun companies was retained until 1920, and the regiment took part in the Trooping the Colour ceremony in Hyde Park, London to mark the King's Official Birthday in June 1919 alongside the other regiments of foot guards.

On 26 February 1920 an army order was issued announcing that the regiment was to be immediately disbanded and the 1918 royal warrant cancelled

Notable Personnel

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