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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.
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.
On 13 June 1789 Anson joined the British Army, being commissioned as an ensign in the 1st Foot Guards which was the regiment members of his family traditionally joined. [1] He travelled with the 1st Battalion of his regiment to serve in the Flanders campaign on 25 February 1793, fighting at the Battle of Famars on 23 May and then at the ...
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 ...
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]
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 ...
Lieutenant-colonel of the 68th Foot in 1781, he was promoted to colonel when he transferred to the 1st Foot Guards. In 1793 he commanded a composite battalion of grenadiers in Lake's brigade under York in the Flanders Campaign , and saw action at Raismes 8 May, Famars 23 May, the Siege of Valenciennes 13 June – 28 July, and the Siege of ...