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The Grenadier Guards (GREN GDS) is the most senior infantry regiment of the British Army, being at the top of the Infantry Order of Precedence. It can trace its lineage back to 1656 when Lord Wentworth's Regiment was raised in Bruges to protect the exiled Charles II . [ 2 ]
87th Battalion (Canadian Grenadier Guards), CEF: 22 December 1915 30 August 1920 The Canadian Grenadier Guards: 88th Battalion (Victoria Fusiliers), CEF: 22 December 1915 1 September 1917 The Canada Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary's) 89th Battalion (Alberta), CEF: 22 December 1915 21 May 1917 The King's Own Calgary Regiment (RCAC)
The Canadian Grenadier Guards' Junior Ranks Mess is named the "John Francis Young Club" in his honour. Past and present serving members of The Canadian Grenadier Guards are required to execute a proper halt, come to attention, each time entering the Jr. Ranks Mess. There is a memorial plaque to him in the CGG Sergeants' mess.
Grenadier Guards: 5 November 1854: Crimean War: Inkerman [31] Thomas Pryce: Grenadier Guards: 11–12 April 1918: First World War: Vieux-Berquin [33] William Reynolds: Scots Fusiliers Guards [note 1] 20 September 1854: Crimean War: Alma [14] John Rhodes: Grenadier Guards: 9 October 1917: First World War: Houthulst Forest [34] Charles Russell ...
The 3rd Guards Brigade was formed at Lumbres, near St Omer, France [1] on 15 August 1915. The 4th Battalion, Grenadier Guards and 1st Battalion, Welsh Guards joined on 18 and 20 August, respectively, from England and the 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards and 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards joined on 5 and 8 August from 20th Brigade, 7th Division. [2]
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")
The Royal Irish Rifles in a communications trench on the first day on the Somme, 1 July 1916 The Victoria Cross (VC) was awarded 628 times to 627 recipients for action in the First World War (1914–1918). The Victoria Cross is a military decoration awarded for valor "in the face of the enemy" to members of armed forces of some Commonwealth countries and previous British Empire territories. It ...
He served on the Western Front throughout the war, rising to command the 2nd Grenadier Guards, then a series of infantry brigades, before being promoted to command the 19th (Western) Division from September 1917 until the end of the war. Following the armistice, he commanded a division in the forces occupying Germany, and then held various ...