Authors and Contributors this page: Graham Watson, T.F. Mills
Page created 1 November 2002. Corrected and updated 20.11.2004
1788-1922
United Kingdom  
Note:This is a battalion history of the Regular Army. See the main regimental page for full lineage and other information.
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  1788 2nd Life Guards
formed by reorganisation of Household Cavalry
1788.08 England: London
  1794 England: London
  1802 England: London
  1803 England: London
1812.10 at sea (2 sqns)
  1812.11.23 Portugal: Lisbon (2 sqns) Household Cav Bde
  1812 Peninsular war (2 sqns)
  1814 augmented by more sqns from England
  1814 Peninsular war
  1814 France
  1814.07.22 at sea (embarked at Boulogne )
1814 England: London
  1815.04.28 at sea
  1815.05.03 Belgium: Ostend
  1815.06 Waterloo campaign 1st Cav Bde
  1815.07.07 France: Paris Army of Occupation
  1816.01.17 at sea (embarked at Boulogne)
  1816.02.08 England: London
<1881> London: Regents Park
  1882 with 1st Life Guards, and Royal Horse Guards, formed Household Cavalry Composite Regiment for Egyptian campaign
  1882 London: Regents Park  
  1899.11.29 at sea
1899.12 South Africa
  1900.11.28 England  
1900.11 London
<1904> London: Hyde Park
<1909> England: Windsor
<1914> London: Regents Park
1914.09 France and Flanders 7 Cav Bde, 3 Cav Div, BEF
  1918.06.27 2nd (2nd Life Guards) Battalion, Guards Machine Gun Regiment
converted to motor machine gun role (less one sqn)
1918.03 France and Flanders 1st Army, BEF
  1919.02.10 2nd Life Guards
reorganised as cavalry
1919 London
  1922.05.21 amalgamated with 1st Life Guards, to form The Life Guards