Brigade of Guards [UK]

Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills

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Page created 5 February 2002. Corrected and updated 18.05.2006

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	Brigade of Guards
	United Kingdom


Titles & Lineage Units Insignia	Commandant Links Bibliography

See also British:

Depots:

Introduction Infantry 1834-1871 Infantry 1873-1881 Infantry 1946-present

Regiments and Corps:

Alphabetic Index	Numeric Index
Introduction to Regulars	Introduction to Militia
Introduction to Territorials & Volunteers	Introduction to Home Guard

English County Index of
Militia and Volunteers

Irish County Index of
Militia and Volunteers

Scottish County Index of
Militia and Volunteers

Welsh County Index of
Militia and Volunteers

Formations:

Index of Home Commands	Index of Divisions
Index of Armies, Corps & Overseas Commands	Index of Brigades

Titles & Lineage

Index of Titles


	1946.10.28	A Group (title not actually used)
	1948.07.14	Brigade of Guards (title in use since 18th century)
	1968.07.01	Guards Division
	2006.04.01	The London Regt transferred from Queen's Division as new T.A. component

Units



	*Regular Battalions:*
		1st Bn, Grenadier Guards [1660-present]
		2nd Bn, Grenadier Guards [1656-1994]
		3rd Bn, Grenadier Guards [1760-1961]
		1st Bn, Coldstream Guards [1650-present]
		2nd Bn, Coldstream Guards [1711-1993]
		3rd Bn, Coldstream Guards [1897-1959]
		1st Bn, Scots Guards [1660-present]
		2nd Bn, Scots Guards [1689-1993]
		1st Bn, Irish Guards [1900-present]
		1st Bn, Welsh Guards [1915-present]
		Composite Guards Parachute Battalion [1946-1948]
		Guards Independent Parachute Company [1948-1975]
		G Squadron, 22nd Special Air Service Regiment [1965-present]

	*Territorial Battalions:*
		The London Regiment [2006-present]


*Allied Regiments (see also individual Guards regiments):*
	The Canadian Guards	-1970

Insignia

Commandant




	Representative Colonel Commandant:

Links


	Guards Division (Army site) Guards Company, Catterick (Army site)

Bibliography

How To Find Books


	Regimental Journal:
		*The Household Brigade magazine*.

	Full Histories:


	Special Topics:
		Braddon, Russell. *All the Queen's men : the Household Cavalry and the Brigade of Guards*. London : Hamilton, 1977. ISBN: 024189431X [American edition published simultaneously: New York : Hippocrene Books, 1977. ISBN: 0882544314]
		Legge-Bourke, Henry, Sir. *The King's Guards, horse and foot*. London : Macdonald, 1952.
		Legge-Bourke, Henry, Sir. The Queen's Guards, horse and foot. [new ed.] London : Macdonald, 1965.
		*The Household Brigade : a pictorial record*. London : Pitkin Pictorials, 1966.
		Simkin, Peter ; Gibbs, Barry ; Waller, William F. *The Guards : Changing of the Guard, Trooping the Colour, regimental histories*. London : Macmillan, 1972. ISBN: 0333134605
		Simkin, Peter ; Gibbs, Barry. *The Guards : Changing of the Guard, Trooping the Colour, regimental histories*. [rev. ed.] London : Pitkin Pictorials, 1982. ISBN: 0853723478 (pbk)
		*The Guards : changing of the guard, trooping of the colour, the regiments*. Rev. ed. Andover : Pitkin Pictorials, 1990.