2nd Regiment of Life Guards was a cavalry regiment in the British Army, part of the Household Cavalry. It was formed in 1788 by the union of the 2nd Troop...
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Life Guards (LG) is the most senior regiment of the British Army and part of the Household Cavalry, along with The Blues and Royals. The Life Guards grew...
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of Horse Guards and 1st Troop of Horse Grenadier Guards. In 1922, it was amalgamated with the 2nd Life Guards to form the Life Guards. The regiment was...
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between the regiment and the Royal Horse Guards. The Royal Life Guards were established by Frederik III of Denmark on 30 June 1658, the guards were both...
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Life Guards Regiment, Semyonovsky Life Guards Regiment 2nd Brigade: Izmailovsky Life Guards Regiment, Yegersky Life Guards Regiment 1st Life-Guards Artillery...
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five regiments of foot guards, mounts the King's Guard, while the King's Life Guard is usually provided for by the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment. Since...
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list of past and present army units whose names include the word guard. Border guards, coast guards, civil guards, home guards, national guards, honor...
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Preobrazhensky Life-Guards Regiment (Russian: Преображенский лейб-гвардии полк, Preobrazhensky leyb-gvardii polk) was a regiment of the Imperial Guard of the Imperial...
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The Life Guards (Swedish: Livgardet, designation LG) is a combined Swedish Army cavalry/infantry regiment. Its responsibilities include the defence of Stockholm...
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The Coldstream Guards is the oldest continuously serving regular regiment in the British Army. As part of the Household Division, one of its principal...
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form the 2nd Regiment of Life Guards. 1658-1670 2nd (The Duke of York's) Troop of Horse Guards [formed in exile in Holland from followers of Charles II]...
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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...
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1st Guards Rifle Battalion, Semyonovsky Regiment 2nd Guards Rifle Battalion, Semyonovsky Regiment 3rd Guards Rifle Battalion, Semyonovsky Regiment 4th...
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His Majesty's Life Guards Hussar Regiment (until 1855 – the Hussar Life Guards Regiment) was a Guards Hussar regiment of the Army of the Russian Empire...
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Life-Guards Horse Regiment, His Majesty's Life-Guards Cuirassier Regiment, and Her Majesty's Life-Guards Cuirassier Regiment), the Chevalier Guards were equipped...
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Pavlovsky Guard Regiment (Russian: Павловский лейб-гвардии полк) was a Russian Imperial Guard infantry regiment. It was formed out of 2 battalions of the Moscow...
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colonel of the 2nd Life Guards. This arrangement continued until the regiment was renamed "The Life Guards" in 1928. The two Household regiments rotated...
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date of the founding of a regiment from its oldest part, in this case the Zealand Life Regiment, which was founded in 1614. This makes the Guard Hussars...
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and colonel of the Derbyshire Regiment (1889). He exchanged the colonelcy of the Derbyshires for that of the 2nd Life Guards (1900), and as such was Gold...
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to become the 2nd Regiment of Life Guards. Until 1751, British regiments, including the 2nd Troop, were generally known by the name of their colonel,...
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The Welsh Guards (WG; Welsh: Gwarchodlu Cymreig), part of the Guards Division, is one of the Foot Guards regiments of the British Army. It was founded...
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troops of Horse Guards and Horse Grenadier Guards were regimented in 1788, forming the 1st Regiment of Life Guards and 2nd Regiment of Life Guards; together...
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Anna's personal life guards (leib guard), named after the Romanov ancestral estate of Izmaylovo. The first colonel of the regiment that was appointed was...
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Lifeguard Regiment (Russian: Волынский лейб-гвардии полк), more correctly translated as the Volhynian Life-Guards Regiment, was a Russian Imperial Guard infantry...
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the regiment was renamed the Horse Guards and given all the rights of the guards, marking the beginning of the regular guards cavalry. The regiment consisted...
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Dragoon Guards was a armoured cavalry and dragoon guard regiment in the British Army. The regiment was raised by Sir John Lanier in 1685 as the 2nd Queen's...
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Life Guards (Königlich Bayerisches Infanterie-Leib-Regiment) was a household, life guard (bodyguard) regiment of the Bavarian kings from the end of the...
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Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys) is a cavalry regiment of the British Army, and the senior Scottish regiment. The regiment, through the Royal...
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Queen's Dragoon Guards (QDG) is a regiment in the Royal Armoured Corps (RAC) of the British Army. Nicknamed The Welsh Cavalry, the regiment recruits from...
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On 25 June 1788, the regiment became the 1st Regiment of Life Guards. 1660 Charles, Baron Gerard —Lord Gerard's Horse Guards (17 May 1660 - 16 September...
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