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The regiment formed as the Princess Anne of Denmark's Regiment of Foot during a rebellion in 1685 by the Duke of Monmouth against King James II. [1] After James was deposed during the "Glorious Revolution" that installed William III and Mary II as co-monarchs, the regiment's commanding officer, the Duke of Berwick, decided to join his royal father in exile. [2]
The King's later fought in the Korean War, earning the regiment's last battle honour. Nine Victoria Crosses were awarded to men of the regiment, the first in 1900 and the last in 1918. An additional two were awarded to Royal Army Medical Corps officer Noel Godfrey Chavasse, who was attached to the 10th (Scottish) Battalion during the Great War.
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")
Formerly the 2/10th King's, September 1940 Britain Disbanded 1941 30th (Home Defence) Formerly the 10th King's [1] Britain Disbanded March 1943 [1] Others 50th (Holding) Liverpool, 1939 Britain Became 14th Bn October 1940 [1] 70th (Young Soldiers) Formed from YS companies of 10th (HD) Bn King's and 8th (HD) Bn Cheshire Regiment, September 1940 ...
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The Foot Guards of this period carried three king's colours: the colonel's, lieutenant-colonel's and major's colours. Unlike the king's colours of line regiments these had plain crimson fields. Each company also had a colour which was the union flag defaced with a badge, the 1st Foot Guards had 24 of these, one of which was carried in rotation ...
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Bryan Thomas Mahon was born at Belleville, County Galway, on 2 April 1862. [3] After having served in the Galway Militia, into which he had been commissioned as a second lieutenant in April 1879, [4] he transferred to the 21st Hussars in January 1883, [5] before finally transferring to the 8th (King's Royal Irish) Hussars in February 1883. [6]