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1st Life Guards prepare for war, August 1914. Elements of the Life Guards, along with the Royal Horse Guards, formed the Household Cavalry Composite Regiment (HCCR) for active service. The HCCR was in action in the Anglo-Egyptian War of 1882 and the Second Boer War of 1899 to 1902. THe HCCR was mobilised again in 1914 at the start of the First ...
1st Regiment of Life Guards. The 1st Regiment of Life Guards was a cavalry regiment in the British Army, part of the Household Cavalry. It was formed in 1788 by the union of the 1st Troop of Horse Guards and 1st Troop of Horse Grenadier Guards. In 1922, it was amalgamated with the 2nd Life Guards to form The Life Guards.
Household Cavalry. The Household Cavalry (HCAV) is a corps of the Household Division, made up of the two most senior regiments of the British Army; The Life Guards and The Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons). They have taken part in every major conflict since 1660.
It crowns the best turned out trooper from the two most senior regiments in the British Army. The Life Guards and the Blues and Royals, locked in a rivalry stretching back to the Restoration of ...
Life guard (military) Not to be confused with lifeguard, in the meaning of an emergency service worker. Changing of the guard in Whitehall, London. A life guard (also known as household troops) is a military unit charged with protecting a high-ranking individual, such as a monarch.
The Royal Regiment of Horse Guards, also known as the Blues, or abbreviated as RHG, was one of the Cavalry regiments of the British Army, and part of the Household Cavalry. In 1969, it was amalgamated with the 1st The Royal Dragoons to form the Blues and Royals. Raised in August 1650 by Sir Arthur Haselrig on the orders of Oliver Cromwell ...
40th (the 2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot - 2 Battalions 1799-1802 and 1804-1816. 41st Regiment of Foot - 2 Battalions in 1813. 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot - 2 Battalions 1780-1786 and 1804-1812. 43rd (Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot - Became Light Infantry in 1803 - 2 Battalions 1804-1817.
Household Battalion. The Household Battalion was an infantry battalion of the British army during the Great War. [1] It was formed in September 1916 from the reserves of the Household Cavalry regiments (the 1st Life Guards, 2nd Life Guards and the Royal Horse Guards) to help fill the every-increasing demands for infantry on the Western Front.