Scots Guards

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Scots Guards
Image:Scots-Guards-Cap-Badge.jpg Cap Badge of the Scots Guards
Active	1642-1651, 1661-present
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	Army
Type	Foot Guards
Role	Armoured (one battalion) Public Duties (one company)
Size	One battalion One company
Part of	4th Mechanised Brigade
Garrison/HQ	RHQ - London 1st Battalion - Münster, Germany F Company - London
Nickname	The Jocks
Motto	Nemo Me Impune Lacessit (No one assails me with impunity) (Latin)
March	Quick - Hielan' Laddie Slow - The Garb of Old Gaul
Anniversaries	St Andrew's Day Nov 30
Commanders
Colonel-in-Chief	HM The Queen
Colonel of the Regiment	HRH The Duke of Kent
Insignia
Tactical Recognition Flash	Image:Guards TRF.PNG
Tartan	Royal Stewart (pipers kilts and plaids)

The Scots Guards are a regiment of the British Army, part of the Guards Division, and have a long and proud history stretching back hundreds of years.

The Scots Guards is ranked as the third regiment of Foot Guards; as such, Scots Guardsmen can be recognised by having the buttons on their tunics spaced in threes. The regiment consists of a single operational battalion, which is currently (2006) based in Germany in the armoured infantry role as part of British Forces Germany (due to move to Catterick by 2009). However, since 1993, the regiment has also maintained an independent company permanently based in London on public duties. F Company is the custodian of the colours and traditions of the 2nd Battalion, which was placed in permanent suspended animation in 1993.

This article is part of the
Scots Guards History.

Scots Guards

1 Battle honours
2 References
3 Alliances
4 Order of Precedence
5 External Links

Battle honours

Pre-First World: Namur 1695, Dettingen, Lincelles, Egypt, Talavera, Barrosa, Fuentes d'Onor, Salamanca, Nive, Peninsula, Waterloo, Alma, Inkerman, Sevastopol, Tel-er-Kebir, Egypt 1882, Suakin 1885, Modder River, South Africa 1899–1902
First World War:
- Western Front: Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914, Ypres 1914 1917, Langemarck 1914, Gheluvelt, Nonne Bosschen, Givenchy 1914, Neuve Chapelle, Aubers, Festubert 1915, Loos, Somme 1916 1918, Flers Courcelette, Morval, Pilckem, Poelcapelle, Cambrai 1917 1918, St. Quentin, Albert 1918, Bapaume 1918, Arras 1918, Drocourt-Quéant, Hindenburg Line, Havrincourt, Canal du Nord, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914–18
Second World War:
- North-West Europe: Stien, Norway 1940, Quarry Hill, Estry, Venlo Pocket, Rhineland, Reichswald, Kleve, Moyland, Hochwald, Rhine, Lingen, Uelzen, North-West Europe 1944–45
- North Africa: Halfaya 1941, Sidi Suleiman, Tobruk 1941, Gazala, Knightsbridge, Defence of Alamein Line, Medenine, Tadjera Khir, Medjez Plain, Grich el Oued, Djebel Bou Aoukaz 1943 I, North Africa 1941–43,
- Italy: Salerno, Battipaglia, Volturno Crossing, Roccheta e Croce, Monte Camino, Campoleone, Carroceto, Trasimene Line, Advance to Florence, Monte San Michele, Catarelto Ridge, Argenta Gap, Italy 1943–45
Post WWII: Tumbledown Mountain, Falkland Islands 1982, Gulf 1991

References

Scots Guards Homepage: [1]
Scots Guards Association Homepage: [2]

Alliances

Order of Precedence

Preceded by: Coldstream Guards	Infantry Order of Precedence	Succeeded by: Irish Guards

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External Links

The Guards MuseumContaining the history of the five regiments of Foot Guards, Wellingon Barracks, London.

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