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  2. British Army incremental infantry companies - Wikipedia

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    Two of the three incremental companies formed following the suspension of 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards also undertook operational taskings, with F Company attached to the 1st Battalion, Irish Guards between October 1970 and January 1972 during that unit's posting as a resident infantry battalion in Hong Kong, [19] while S Company formed the ...

  3. Grenadier Guards - Wikipedia

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    The 1st and 2nd Battalions were serving in the 7th Guards Brigade, which also included the 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards, and were part of the 3rd Infantry Division, led by Major General Bernard Montgomery. The 3rd Battalion was in the 1st Guards Brigade attached to the 1st Infantry Division, commanded by Major General Harold Alexander. [23]

  4. Guards Division - Wikipedia

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    2nd Battalion, Scots Guards (1968–1971, reduced to 2 Scots Guards Company in 1st Battalion, re-instated 1972–1993), reduced to F Company Band of the Grenadier Guards (1968–1994), transferred to Royal Corps of Army Music (CAMUS) on formation of that corps

  5. The coffin bearers at the Queen’s funeral are from a unit of which the late monarch was Company Commander. Soldiers from the Queen’s Company, 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, have been chosen ...

  6. Guards and Parachute Division - Wikipedia

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    This saw the 1st Battalion (formerly the Royal Scots Borderers, 1st Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland) assigned to the Guards and Parachute Division. [ 2 ] One of the platoons of 3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment is manned exclusively by soldiers drawn from either the foot guards or the Household Cavalry .

  7. London Guards - Wikipedia

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    The London Guards is a formation within the British Army comprising the reserve companies of the Grenadier, Coldstream, Scots and Irish Guards.On formation these companies drew their personnel from the London Regiment and it traces its history back to the formation of that regiment in 1908 when 26 separate Volunteer Force battalions were brought together. [1]

  8. Operation Herrick order of battle - Wikipedia

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    B (Suffolk) Company; No 3 (Fighting) Company 1st Battalion The Grenadier Guards. Company was raised specifically for Herrick 6 and came under command of 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment. Company was disbanded once more on return to UK. 7 Platoon; Elements of 16th Regiment Royal Artillery; 19th Regiment Royal Artillery

  9. List of nicknames of British Army regiments - Wikipedia

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    The Daily Advertisers – 5th Lancers [3] The Dandies – 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards; The Dandy Ninth – 9th (Highlanders) Battalion Royal Scots [27]; The Death or Glory Boys – 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) later 17th/21st Lancers, then Queen's Royal Lancers [1] [3] (from the regimental badge, which was a death's head (skull), with a scroll bearing the motto "or Glory")