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Page created 15 July 2000. Corrected and updated 07.07.2002
 
Coldstream Guards
crest and tie
 by James Robinson
United Kingdom 
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1650 George Monck's Regiment
raised for service in Parliamentary Army in Northumberland from five companies of Fenwick's Regiment and five companies of Hesilbridge's Regiment
1660 The Duke of Albemarle's Regiment of Foot, or The Lord General's Regiment
transferred to the King's service
1661 Lord General's Regiment of Foot Guards
elevated to Guards status, and placed on British Establishment
1670 Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards
1855 Coldstream Guards
Note:  the regiment never accepted the designation "2nd Regiment of Foot Guards" although this was occasionally used in official documents in the early 18th century.
Coldstream Guards (official Army site)
Lineage since 1975, by Wienand Drenth.
Coldstream Guards, by Glenvil Roberts.
Brigade of Guards in America History [American Revolution], by William W. Burke and Linnea M. Bass.
The Coldstream Guards ... movements ... during the Great War, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath 1914-1918)
The Coldstream Guards [in the Great War], by C. F. Baker (The British Army in the Great War).
Regulars:
  1st Battalion [1650-present]
  2nd Battalion [1711-1993]
  3rd Battalion [1897-1959]
   
Service Battalions:
 
Tangier 1680, Namur 1695, Gibraltar 1704-05, Blenheim, Oudenarde, Malplaquet, Dettingen, Lincelles, Talavera, Barrosa, Fuentes d'Onor, Salamanca, Nive, Peninsula, Waterloo, Alma, Inkerman, Sevastopol, Tel-el-Kebir, Egypt 1882, Suakin 1885, Modder River, South Africa 1899-1902

The Great War (5 battalions):  Mons, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914, Ypres 1914 '17, Langemarck 1914, Gheluvelt, Nonne Bosschen, Neuve Chapelle, Aubers, Festubert 1915, Loos, Mount Sorrel, Somme 1916 '18, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Pilckem, Menin Road, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 '18, St. Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Arras 1918, Lys, Hazebrouck, Albert 1918, Scarpe 1918, Drocourt-Quéant, Hindenburg Line, Havrincourt, Canal du Nord, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18

The Second World War:  Dyle, Defence of Escaut, Dunkirk 1940, Cagny, Mont Pincon, Quarry Hill, Estry, Hepper, Nederrijn, Venraij, Meijel, Roer, Rhineland, Reichswald, Cleve, Goch, Moyland, Hochwald, Rhine, Lingen, Uelzen, North-West Europe 1940 '44-45, Egyptian Frontier 1940, Sidi Barrani, Halfaya 1941, Tobruk 1941 '42, Msus, Knightsbridge, Defence of Alamein Line, Medenine, Mareth, Longstop Hill 1942, Sbiba, Steamroller Farm, Tunis, Hammam Lif, North Africa 1940-43, Salerno, Battipaglia, Cappezano, Volturno Crossing, Monte Camino, Calabritto, Garigliano Crossing, Monte Ornito, Monte Piccolo, Capture of Perugia, Arezzo, Advance to Florence, Monte Domini, Catarelto Ridge, Argenta Gap, Italy 1943-45

Gulf 1991
   
Badges:  
Uniform:  
   
   
     
   
1901.01.22 F.M. HM King Edward VII
1910.05.07 F.M. HM King George V
1936.02.01 F.M. HM King Edward VIII
1936.12.10 F.M. HM King George VI
1952.02.06 HM Queen Elizabeth II
1650.08.26 Gen. George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, KG
1670.01.06 Lt-Gen. William Craven, 1st Earl of Craven
1689.05.01 Lt-Gen. Thomas Tollemache
1694.10.03 Lt-Gen. John Cutts, 1st Lord Cutts
1707.02.25 Gen. Charles Churchill
1714.10.11 Gen. William Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan, KT
1722.06.18 Lt-Gen. Richard Lumley, 2nd Earl of Scarborough, KG
1740.04.23 Gen. HRH William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, KG
1742.02.18 Gen. Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, KG
1744.10.05 Gen. William Anne Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle, KG, KB
1755.04.08 F.M. James O'Hara, 2nd Lord Tyrawley (Lord Kilmaine)
1773.07.15 Gen. John Waldegrave, 3rd Earl Waldegrave
1784.10.27 F.M. HRH Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany, KG, GCB, GCH
1805.09.05 F.M. HRH Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cambridge, KG, GCB, GCMG, GCH
1850.08.15 F.M. Sir John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford, GCB, GCH
1860.06.04 F.M. Sir Colin Campbell, 1st Lord Clyde, GCB, KCSI
1863.08.15 F.M. Sir William Maynard Gomm, GCB
1875.03.16 Gen. Sir William John Codrington, GCB
1884.08.07 Gen. Sir Thomas Montagu Steele, GCB
1890.02.26 Gen. Hon. Sir Arthur Edward Hardinge, KCB, CIE
1892.07.16 Gen. Sir Frederick Charles Arthur Stephenson, GCB
1911.03.11 Gen. Lord William Frederick Ernest Seymour, GCB
1915.02.10 Maj-Gen. Evelyn Edward Thomas Boscawen, 7th Viscount Falmouth, KCVO, CB
1918.20.02 Lt-Gen. Sir Alfred Edward Codrington, GCVO, KCB
1945.09.13 Gen. Sir Henry Charles Loyd, GCVO, KCB, DSO, MC
1966.05.08 Maj-Gen. Sir Walter Arthur George Burns, KCVO, CB, DSO, OBE, MC
1994.01.23 Lt-Gen. The Rt. Hon. Sir William Edward Rous, KCB, OBE
Victoria Crosses, by Mike Chapman (VC Reference).
VCs in the Guards RHQ, by Iain Stewart.
 
Motto: Nulli secundus
Nicknames:
Anniversaries: St. George's Day (23 Apr.)
Marches:
Musicians:
Miscellaneous Tradition Links:
Governor General's Foot Guards 1929-present
2nd Bn, The Royal Australian Regiment 1953-
2nd/4th Bn, The Royal Australian Regiment  
Coldstream Guards Association, Branch 36, Canada
New Zealand Guards Association
Brigade of Guards Newsgroup
Brigade of Guards Newsgroup (Yahoo!Groups)
Brigade of Guards in America, Grenadier Company [American Revolution; Illinois]
Coldstream Guards Living History Museum [WW2; Aurora, Illinois]
Guards Museum (Army listing)
Coldstream Museum, Coldstream (Army listing)
Guards Museum (Westminster government listing)
Guards Museum, by Henrik Teller (Simonides)
The Coldstream Museum, Coldstream, Borders, by Henrik Teller (Simonides listing)
Regimental Journal:
 
Full Histories:
 
Short Histories: