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The Grenadiers of the 1st Foot Guard Regiment on parade at the Lustgarten in Potsdam in 1894. The 1st Foot Guard Regiment (German: 1. Garde-Regiment zu Fuß) was an infantry regiment of the Royal Prussian Army formed in 1806 after Napoleon defeated Prussia in the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt.
1st Brigade: Major-General Peregrine Maitland: 78 off 1,901 men 5 off 43 men 9 off 491 men 0 off 0 men 2nd Battalion, 1st Regiment of Foot Guards: Lieutenant Colonel Henry Askew: 35 off 919 men 2 off 23 men 4 off 256 men 0 off 0 men 3rd Battalion, 1st Regiment of Foot Guards Lieutenant Colonel William Stuart: 40 off 982 men 2 off 20 men 5 off ...
He was awarded the Army Gold Cross and was made KCB on 2 January 1815. [1] Having been sent to America, he joined the army under Sir Edward Pakenham, at the Battle of New Orleans, on 6 January 1815, with the 7th and 43rd regiments. In the unsuccessful attack on the American entrenchments, made two days afterwards, he commanded the reserve.
Lord Hay was the eldest son and heir of William Hay, 17th Earl of Erroll and his second wife, Alicia Eliot (d. 1812).. Hay, an ensign in the 1st Foot Guards, was killed at the Battle of Quatre Bras while serving as aide-de-camp to General Maitland.
On 18 June, the day of Waterloo, he commanded two battalions of the 1st Foot Guards, each 1000-men strong and led the Guards in repelling the final assault of the French Imperial Guard. [4] For his service at Waterloo, Maitland was created a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath , (KCB) on 22 June 1815, the Dutch Order of William and the ...
Captain William Barton JP (c.1796 - 14 May 1874) was a British soldier and a Ceylonese public servant, the fifth Postmaster General of Ceylon (1859-1867). [1]In 1811 Barton was gazetted as an ensign in the 87th (The Prince of Wales's Irish) Regiment of Foot [2] and in 1813 was transferred to the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards, where he was promoted to Lieutenant and Captain in 1815. [3]
General William Hervey (1732–1815), attributed to Johann Zoffany in 1766 General William Hervey (13 May 1732 – 15 January 1815) [ 1 ] was a British Army officer and, briefly, a politician. Life
Cap badge of the regiment [3]. The Grenadier Guards trace their lineage back to 1656, [4] when Lord Wentworth's Regiment was raised from gentlemen of the Honourable Artillery Company by the then heir to the throne, Prince Charles (later King Charles II), in Bruges, in the Spanish Netherlands (present-day Belgium), where it formed a part of the exiled King's bodyguard. [5]