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The Grenadier Guards (GREN GDS) is the most senior infantry regiment of the British Army, being at the top of the Infantry Order of Precedence. It can trace its lineage back to 1656 when Lord Wentworth's Regiment was raised in Bruges to protect the exiled Charles II . [ 2 ]
A. James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Abercorn; James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Abercorn; Allan Adair; Christopher Airy; Augustus Keppel, 5th Earl of Albemarle; Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards [4] The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys) [4] The Royal Dragoon Guards [4] The Queen's Royal Hussars (The Queen's Own and Royal Irish) [4] The Royal Lancers (Queen Elizabeths' Own) [4] The King's Royal Hussars [4] The Light Dragoons [4]
He served on the Western Front throughout the war, rising to command the 2nd Grenadier Guards, then a series of infantry brigades, before being promoted to command the 19th (Western) Division from September 1917 until the end of the war. Following the armistice, he commanded a division in the forces occupying Germany, and then held various ...
He became commanding officer of 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards in 2011, in which role he was deployed to Afghanistan. [ 2 ] He went on to be commander of the 1st Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Brigade in June 2016, Head of Strategy for the Army in June 2018, [ 3 ] and General Officer Commanding Force Troops Command in July 2019 ...
By 2007 the units in the district included the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment; the 1st Battalions of the Welsh Guards and Coldstream Guards; 2nd Battalion, Mercian Regiment; Nijmegen Company, Grenadier Guards, No. 7 Company, Coldstream Guards, and F Company, Scots Guards, the three Guards incremental companies; The King's Troop, Royal Horse ...
Guards Armoured Division, Major-General A.H.S. Adair. 5th Guards Armoured Brigade, Brigadier Norman Gwatkin. 1st Armoured Battalion, Coldstream Guards; 2nd Armoured Battalion, Grenadier Guards; 2nd Armoured Battalion, Irish Guards, Lieutenant Colonel Giles Vandeleur; 1st Motorised Battalion, Grenadier Guards; 32nd Guards Brigade, Brigadier ...
He was appointed Commanding Officer of 1st Bn Grenadier Guards in 1974. [5] He went on to be on the Army Directing Staff at the RAF Staff College in 1976, [ 6 ] Commander of 20th Armoured Brigade in 1978 [ 7 ] and Chief of Staff for South East District in 1981.