| Grenadier Guards |
Cap Badge of the Grenadier Guards | | Active | 1656-present | | Country | United Kingdom | | Branch | Army | | Type | Foot Guards | | Role | Light Role (one battalion)
Public Duties (one company) | | Size | One battalion
One company | | Part of | Guards Division | | Garrison/HQ | 1st Battalion - Aldershot
Nijmegen Company - London | | Nickname | The Bill Browns | | Motto | Honi soit qui mal y pense (Shame to he who thinks evil of it) (French) | | March | Quick: The British Grenadiers
Slow: Scipio | | Battles/wars | Waterloo | | Commanders | | Colonel in Chief | HM The Queen | Colonel of
the Regiment | HRH The Duke of Edinburgh | | Insignia | | Tactical Recognition Flash |
 | The Grenadier Guards is the most senior regiment of the Guards Division of the British Army, and, as such, is the most senior regiment of infantry. It is not, however, the most senior regiment of the Army, this position being attributed to the Life Guards. The Coldstream Guards were organized before the Grenadier Guards, but their regiment is reckoned after the Grenadiers in seniority. Image File history File links Grenadier-Guards-Cap-Badge. ...
Traditionally light infantry (or skirmishers) were soldiers whose job was to provide a skirmishing screen ahead of the main body of infantry, harassing and delaying the enemy advance. ...
Three infantry battalions of the British army are currently tasked with the provision of Public Duties. ...
The Guards Division is an administrative unit of the British Army responsible for the administration of all the units of Foot Guards: 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards Nijmegen Company, Grenadier Guards 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards No 7 Company, Coldstream Guards 1st Battalion, Scots Guards F Company, Scots Guards 1st Battalion, Irish...
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Image File history File links Guards_TRF.PNG Summary TRF of the regiments of Foot Guards of the British Army Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ...
The Guards Division is an administrative unit of the British Army responsible for the administration of all the units of Foot Guards: 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards Nijmegen Company, Grenadier Guards 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards No 7 Company, Coldstream Guards 1st Battalion, Scots Guards F Company, Scots Guards 1st Battalion, Irish...
The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. ...
Life Guards on parade The Life Guards is the senior regiment of the British Army. ...
The Coldstream Guards is a regiment of the British Army, part of the Guards Division. ...
The grouping of buttons on the tunic is a common way to distinguish between the regiments of Foot Guards. Grenadier Guards' buttons are equally spaced and embossed with the Royal Cypher. Modern Grenadier Guardsmen wear a cap badge of a "grenade fired proper".
History
The Grenadier Guards is celebrating its 350th anniversary in 2006.
In 1656, Lord Wentworth's Regiment was formed in the Spanish Netherlands, forming a portion of exiled King Charles II's bodyguard. A few years later, a similar regiment known as John Russell's Regiment of Guards was formed. In 1665, these two regiments were combined to form the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards. As a result of their heroic actions in fighting off the French grenadiers at Waterloo, the 1st Guards were renamed by Royal Proclamation as the 1st or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards, thus becoming the only regiment in the British Army to be named for one of its battle honours. // Events Mehmed Köprülü becomes Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire. ...
Lord Wentworths Regiment was a regiment of infantry raised during the exile of King Charles II. Formed as a regiment of foot guards in 1656 at Bruges under the command of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Cleveland, it was made up of men who remained loyal to the King...
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Role The Grenadier Guards serves as a light infantry battalion - following the reforms of 2004, this will be fixed. The regiment will alternate with the Welsh Guards in the public duties role. The 1st Battalion is currently deployed as part of Operation TELIC in Iraq, and will deploy to Afghanistan in 2007. The 2003 Defence White Paper, entitled Delivering Security in a Changing World sets out the future of the British military, and builds on the 1998 Strategic Defence Review (SDR) and the 2002 SDR New Chapter which responded to the challenges raised by the War on Terror. ...
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The Welsh Guards is an infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Guards Division. ...
Operation Telic is the codename under which all British operations of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq and after are being conducted. ...
2007 (MMVII) will be a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Battle honours The 1st Foot Guards have received many battle honours, including: Image File history File links Download high resolution version (500x651, 81 KB) Grenadier Guards, 1889, ILN Downloaded from: http://www. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (500x651, 81 KB) Grenadier Guards, 1889, ILN Downloaded from: http://www. ...
In 1994, under the Options for Change reforms, the Grenadier Guards was reduced to a single battalion. The 2nd Battalion was put into 'suspended animation', and its colours passed for safekeeping to a newly formed independent Company, which was named "The Nijmegen Company".(The Inkerman Company represents the 3rd Battalion that went into 'suspended animation' back in 1962). The Strait of Gibraltar as seen from space. ...
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Options for Change was a restructuring of the British military in 1993, aimed at cutting defence spending following the end of the Cold War. ...
In the days when battle was conducted at close quarters, it was necessary for soldiers to be able to determine where, during the heat of battle, their regiment was. ...
The Guards Division of the British Army contains a total of five battalions, one from each of the five regiments of Foot Guards. ...
Training Recruits to the Grenadier Guards go through a 26-week training course at the Infantry Training Centre. This is 2 weeks more than the training for regular line regiments of the British Army; the extra training, carried out throughout the course, is devoted to drill and ceremonies. The Infantry Training Centre (ITC) is a unit of the British Army administered by HQ School of Infantry. ...
Following graduation from the ITC, guardsmen are assigned to Nijmegen Company for additional training and orientation before being posted to a rifle company.
Colonels-in-Chief The Grenadier Guards' various colonels-in-chief have generally been the British monarchs, including Edward VII, George V, Edward VIII, George VI, and Elizabeth II. Image File history File links Sentry posted outside St Jamess Palace on Pall Mall Taken by Phillip Barlow in August 2005 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Image File history File links Sentry posted outside St Jamess Palace on Pall Mall Taken by Phillip Barlow in August 2005 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Main entrance of St Jamess Palace, London St Jamess Palace is one of Londons oldest and most historic palaces. ...
Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King of the Commonwealth Realms, and the Emperor of India. ...
George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 - 20 January 1936) was the first British monarch belonging to the House of Windsor, as a result of his creating it from the British branch of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. ...
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George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George Windsor) (14 December 1895 - 6 February 1952) became the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Emperor of India, upon the unexpected abdication of his brother, Edward VIII. He reigned from 11 December 1936 until his death. ...
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of 16 sovereign states, holding each crown and title equally. ...
Many prestigious military officers have been colonels of this regiment, including: Colonel (IPA: or ) is a military rank of a commissioned officer, with the corresponding ranks existing in nearly every country in the world. ...
The Colonel-in-Chief is always the reigning Sovereign. This applies to all Regiments of the Household Division. John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, in his Garter robes John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, KG, PC (26 May 1650 – 16 June 1722) was an English military officer during the War of the Spanish Succession. ...
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John (Jean Louis) Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier, KB, PC (1680 - 1770) was a British military officer. ...
Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS (c. ...
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Household Division is term used principally in the Commonwealth of Nations to describe a country’s most elite or historically senior military groupings, or those military groupings that provide functions associated directly with the Sovereign. ...
Marches The Regimental Slow March is the march Scipio, from the opera of the same name by George Frideric Handel, inspired by the exploits of the Roman General Scipio Africanus. The first performance of Scipio was in 1762. Handel actually composed the eponymous slow march for the First Guards, presenting it to the regiment before he added it to the score of the opera.[1] The Quick March is The British Grenadiers. The Stars and Stripes Forever by John Philip Sousa is considered amongst the greatest marches ever written. ...
Opera composed by Handel for the Royal Academy of Music in 1726. ...
George Frideric Handel, 1733 George Frideric Handel (February 23, 1685 – April 14, 1759) was a German/British Baroque composer who was a leading composer of concerti grossi, operas and oratorios. ...
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Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major (Latin: P·CORNELIVS·P·F·L·N·SCIPIO·AFRICANVS¹) (235–183 BC) was a general in the Second Punic War and statesman of the Roman Republic. ...
The British Grenadiers is a marching song for the grenadier units of the British military during from the 17th Century to the 19th Century. ...
Order of Precedence For the purposes of parading, the regular army of the British Army is listed according to an order of precedence. ...
The Coldstream Guards is a regiment of the British Army, part of the Guards Division. ...
Alliances Image File history File links Flag_of_Canada. ...
CGG Queen Elizabeth Cap Badge The Canadian Grenadier Guards is the second-most senior infantry regiment in the Canadian Army reserve force. ...
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Soldiers from 1 RAR arive in the Solomon Islands in December 2004 Members of 1RAR undergoing a training exercise. ...
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Footnotes - ^ Hanning, Henry (2006). The British Grenadiers: Three Hundred & Fifty Years of the First Regiment of Foot Guards 1656-2006. page 80: Pen and Sword Books Ltd, London. ISBN 1-84415-385-1.
References - Hanning, Henry (2006). The British Grenadiers: Three Hundred & Fifty Years of the First Regiment of Foot Guards 1656-2006. Pen and Sword Books Ltd, London. ISBN 1-84415-385-1.
See also Download high resolution version (514x962, 99 KB)Scots Guards Caption: Tower of London Soldier by dvehwt: These Soldiers can just stand for hours! Source: Stock. ...
Download high resolution version (514x962, 99 KB)Scots Guards Caption: Tower of London Soldier by dvehwt: These Soldiers can just stand for hours! Source: Stock. ...
The Tower of London, seen from the River Thames, with a view of the water gate called Traitors Gate. ...
British military history is a long and varied topic, extending from the prehistoric and ancient historic period, through the Roman invasions of Julius Caesar and Claudius and subsequent Roman occupation; warfare in the Mediaeval period, including the invasions of the Saxons and the Vikings in the Dark Ages, the Norman...
The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. ...
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