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The regiment was formed in 1788 by the union of the 1st Troop of Horse Guards and 1st Troop of Horse Grenadier Guards. [1] It fought in the Peninsular War and at the Waterloo . In 1877, it was renamed 1st Life Guards and contributed to the Household Cavalry Composite Regiment in the Anglo-Egyptian War , in the Second Boer War and in the First ...
Artist's impression of the 1st Troop of Horse Guards at the Battle of Dettingen in 1743.. The Life Guards grew from the four troops of Horse Guards (exclusively formed of gentlemen-troopers until the transformation of the last two remaining troops into Regiments of Life Guards in 1788) [1] [2] raised by Charles II around the time of his restoration, plus two troops of Horse Grenadier Guards ...
The Life Guards were formed following the end of the English Civil War as troops of Life Guards between 1658 and 1659. [1] Regiments were subsequently raised as part of the response to (i) the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685 (ii) the Jacobite rising in 1715 (iii) the Seven Years' War in 1759 and (iv) the Indian Rebellion in 1858. [2]
The regiment was formed in 1658, and placed on the English establishment three years later, with the official formation of the "modern" British Army. It fought at Dettingen , along with four other troops of the Royal Horse Guards , and eventually absorbed the 3rd Troop of Horse Guards and the 1st Troop, Horse Grenadier Guards .
At the Battle of Waterloo, the 1st Life Guards formed part of the 1st (or household) brigade of heavy cavalry under Major-General Lord Edward Somerset. [ 3 ] Records suggest that during the battle, as major and Lieutenant-colonel he led his regiment in eleven charges, most of which were not made until after "his head had been laid open by the ...
Kingdom of Prussia: Prussian Life Guards – part of the Guards Corps of the Prussian Army; Nazi Germany: 1st SS Panzer Division "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler" – incorporated into the Waffen-SS during World War 2; Kingdom of France: French Life Guards – part of the Maison Militaire du Roi de France of the French Royal Army
The 1st His Majesty's Life Guards Rifle Regiment (Russian: Ле́йб-гва́рдии 1-й стрелко́вый Его́ Вели́чества по́лк) was a regiment of the Russian Imperial Guard that existed from 1856 prior to being dissolved in 1918 after World War I and the Russian Revolution.
Born the son of Charles Bingham, 4th Earl of Lucan, [2] [3] Bingham was commissioned as a lieutenant into the 3rd The King's Own Hussars in September 1882 [4] and transferred to the 2nd Regiment of Life Guards in 1886 and the 1st Regiment of Life Guards in 1892. [5]