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The Scots Guards (SG) is one of the five Foot Guards regiments of the British Army. Its origins are as the personal bodyguard of King Charles I of England and Scotland . Its lineage can be traced back to 1642 in the Kingdom of Scotland , although it was only placed on the English Establishment in 1686.
Coldstream Guards: Garter star. Scots Guards: Thistle star. Irish Guards: Shamrock star; Welsh Guards: Garter star. During World War I, some officers took to wearing tunics with the rank badges on the shoulder, as the cuff badges made them too conspicuous to snipers. This practice was frowned on outside the trenches but was given official ...
This is the category page for Cap badges of the British Army. Media in category "British Army Cap badges" The following 19 files are in this category, out of 19 total.
The Grenadier Guards, Coldstream Guards, Scots Guards, Irish Guards, Welsh Guards, Royal Scots Dragoon Guards and Honourable Artillery Company wear bearskins, as do officers of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers; whose other ranks wear the flat-topped fusilier cap.
On full-dress tunics, badges in white or gold lace were worn only on the right arm, but on service dress jackets, badges in worsted embroidery were worn on both arms. In February 1918 the acting bombardier was renamed lance-bombardier, and the full bombardier gained a second chevron in 1920 replacing the rank of corporal in the RA. Second ...
Since the Scots Guards’ formation in 1642, the regiment has played key roles in major conflicts around the world from the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, both World Wars, the Falklands War and ...
The Scots Guards uniform consists of tunic buttons in threes, the Order of the Thistle on the shoulder badge, the Thistle on the collar badge and no plume on the bearskin. Throughout the latter half of the 20th century, the Scots Guards fought to preserve British colonialism by violently crushing pro-independence uprisings in Malaya, Ireland ...