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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.
3rd Battalion, 1st Regiment of Foot Guards Lieutenant Colonel William Stuart: 40 off 982 men 2 off 20 men 5 off 235 men 0 off 0 men 2nd Brigade: Major-General Sir John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford: 79 off 1,939 men 0 off 0 men 0 off 7 men 0 off 0 men 2nd Battalion, Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards: Lieutenant-Colonel James Macdonnell: 36 off ...
2nd Battalion, 1st Regiment of Foot Guards: Lieutenant Colonel Henry Askew: 35 officers, 919 men 4 officers, 78 men 8 officers, 351 men none 3rd Battalion, 1st Regiment of Foot Guards Lieutenant Colonel William Stuart: 40 officers, 982 men 5 officers, 101 men 11 officers, 480 men none 2nd Brigade: Major-General Sir John Byng: 79 officers, 1,939 men
While the 1st Battalion saw some action in Spain and Portugal in 1800–1801, the 2nd remained stationed in England. In 1803 the regiment's fittest officers and men were concentrated in the 1st battalion, for training as light infantry, and the 2nd battalion was transferred to the 96th Foot. [4] A new second battalion was raised in 1804.
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]
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 July 16, 1815, following Napoleon I's second abdication, the regiment was definitively disbanded. It was replaced by the foot artillery regiment of the Royal Guard during the Bourbon Restoration in France (Second Restoration), under royal orders dated September 1 and 14, 1815. Foot artilleryman and Guards artillery train after Hippolyte ...
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 ...