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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.
This article details the history of the Scots Guards from 1914 to 1945. The Scots Guards (SG) is a regiment of the Guards Division of the British Army. The Scots Guards trace their origins back to 1642 when, by order of King Charles I, the regiment was raised by Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll for service in Ireland, and was known as the Marquis of Argyll's Royal Regiment.
Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (on pipers' feather bonnet in Full Dress, pipers' / drummers' glengarry /atholl bonnet in No.1 and No.2 dress): White; Royal Welsh (Other Ranks only): White; Scots Guards (pipers on feather bonnet only): Blue over red; The Queen's University Officers' Training Corps: St Patrick's Blue (A Coy Caubeen Only)
Regimental flag of the SCOTS. The Royal Regiment of Scotland (SCOTS) is the senior and only current Scottish line infantry regiment of the British Army Infantry.It consists of three regular (formerly five) and two reserve battalions, plus an incremental company, each formerly an individual regiment (with the exception of the former first battalion (now disbanded and reformed into the 1st Bn ...
Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders' Piper, Kenneth MacKay, urges on the Highland Troops at The Battle of Waterloo in 1815, by William Lockhart Bogle. Note his headgear, the feather bonnet of c. 1800. The feather bonnet began with the knitted blue bonnet with a chequered border. This was propped up and worn with a tall hackle.
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 ...
The Scots Fusilier Guards also took part in the arduous Siege of Sevastopol, which lasted from September 1854 to September the following year, when it was captured by the British. The Crimean War would end in 1856 with the Treaty of Paris, with the Scots Fusilier Guards returning home to the UK that same year.
The five bands of the foot guards are Band of the Grenadier Guards, Band of the Coldstream Guards, Band of the Scots Guards, Band of the Irish Guards and Band of the Welsh Guards. [1] As of 1913, the massed bands numbered around 250 musicians who are members of the Royal Corps of Army Music rather than the named regiments.