Badges above Scots Guards service dress rank star; Scots Guards (standard Badge); Both Courtesy of Military Badge Collection

Centre images - left Scots Guards Piper Courtesy of Cigarette Cards - cigcardpix/ flickr; Right F Company Scots Guards march up Whitehall during VE Day Celebrations 2015 section of image by Adrian Snood - flickr 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)

Scots Guards

British Army - Guards Division

Foot Guards Regiments

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(Reflecting historic name changes)

3rd Regiment of Foot Guards

Marquis of Argyll's Royal Regiment

New Regiment of Foot Guards

Royal Regiment of Scotsmen

Scotch Guards

Scots Fusilier Guards

Scots Regiment of Guards

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Scots Guards

The Scots Guards (SG), part of the Guards Division, is one of the Foot Guards regiments of the British Army. Their 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.

Active - 1642 - 1651 and 1661 - present

Mottos "Nemo Me Impune Lacessit" (Latin) - "No one touches me with impunity"-

Uniform -
The Guard's blue peaked cap is distinguished with a red, white and blue diced band and a red welt around the crown. Officers have a gold welt. The cap badge is the Star of the order of the Thistle. The bearskin has no plume.

Corps March -

• Quick – Hielan' Laddie
• Slow – The Garb of Old Gaul

Nicknames - The Kiddies; Jock Guards

Colonel-in-Chief Elizabeth II

Colonel of the Regiment Prince Edward, Duke of Kent KG, GCMG, GCVO

Today

Timeline

1642 - raised by order of King Charles I, by Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll for service in Ireland, and was known as the Marquis of Argyll's Royal Regiment
mid 1640s - during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, the regiment took part in the fight against James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose who was fighting on the side of Charles I.
1662 - Officially brought together by George, Earl of Linlithgow as the New Regiment of Foot Guards.
1686 - Re-designated Scotch (or Scots) Guards
1712 - Numbered 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards
1809 - 1st Battalion went to the Iberian Peninsula where they were to take part in the Peninsular War in Portugal and Spain
1815 - Battle of Waterloo - the Scots Guards were positioned on the ridge just behind Hougoumont Farm, while the light companies of the two battalions, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel James Macdonnell, garrisoned the Farm, a place, on the right flank of the British and Allied army, that would be a key position during the battle. 1831 - Re-designated Scots Fusilier Guards
1877 - Re-designated Scots Guards. 1914 - WW1 - Battle of Mons

Regimental colonels

• Major-General The Earl of Linlithgow 1660–1684
• Lieutenant-General Hon. James Douglas 1684–1691
• Lieutenant-General Hon. George Ramsay 1691–1707
• Lieutenant-General The Marquess of Lothian 1707–1713
• General The Earl of Dunmore 1713–1752
• General The Earl of Rothes 1752–1767
• Field Marshal HRH The Duke of Gloucester 1767–1770
• General The Earl of Loudoun 1770–1782
• Field Marshal The Duke of Argyll 1782–1806
• Field Marshal HRH The Duke of Gloucester 1806–1834
• General The Duke of Gordon 1834–1836
• General The Earl Ludlow 1836–1842
• Field Marshal HRH The Duke of Saxony 1842–1852[12]
• Field Marshal HRH The Duke of Cambridge 1852–1861
• Field Marshal Sir Alexander Woodford 1861–1870
• General Sir John Aitchison 1870–1875
• General Lord Rokeby 1875–1883
• General Sir William Knollys 1883–1883
• Field Marshal The Duke of Connaught and Strathearn 1883–1904
• Field Marshal Lord Methuen 1904–1932
• Field Marshal HRH The Duke of York 1932–1936
• Field Marshal HRH The Duke of Gloucester 1936–1974
• Field Marshal HRH The Duke of Kent 1974–present

Battle honours

• Pre-First World War: Namur 1695, Dettingen, Lincelles, Egypt, Talavera, Barrosa, Fuentes d'Onoro, Salamanca, Nive, Peninsula, Waterloo, Alma, Inkerman, Sevastopol, Tel-er-Kebir, Egypt 1882, Suakin 1885, Modder River, South Africa 1899–1902
• First World War: Western Front: Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914, Ypres 1914 1917, Langemarck 1914, Gheluvelt, Nonne Bosschen, Givenchy 1914, Neuve Chapelle, Aubers, Festubert 1915, Loos, Somme 1916 1918, Flers–Courcelette, Morval, Pilckem, Poelcapelle, Cambrai 1917 1918, St. Quentin, Albert 1918, Bapaume 1918, Arras 1918, Drocourt-Quéant, Hindenburg Line, Havrincourt, Canal du Nord, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914–18
• Second World War: North-West Europe: Stien, Norway 1940, Quarry Hill, Estry, Venlo Pocket, Rhineland, Reichswald, Kleve, Moyland, Hochwald, Rhine, Lingen, Uelzen, North-West Europe 1944–45 North Africa: Halfaya 1941, Sidi Suleiman, Tobruk 1941, Gazala, Knightsbridge, Defence of Alamein Line, Medenine, Tadjera Khir, Medjez Plain, Grich el Oued, Djebel Bou Aoukaz 1943 I, North Africa 1941–43 Italy: Salerno, Battipaglia, Volturno Crossing, Rocchetta e Croce, Monte Camino, Campoleone, Carroceto, Trasimene Line, Advance to Florence, Monte San Michele, Catarelto Ridge, Argenta Gap, Italy 1943–45
• Post World War II: Tumbledown Mountain (Falkland Islands 1982), Gulf 1991

Notable Personnel

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Sources, References and Further Reading

• Brereton, J M A Guide to the regiments and Corps of the British Army on the Regular Establishment (Bodley Head) 1985
• Griffin, P D Encyclopedia of Modern British Army Regiments (Sutton Publishers) 2006
• Lumley, Goff Amalgamations in the British Army 1660-2008 (Partizan Press 2009)
• WIKI Scots Guards

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