Scots Guards

The Scots Guards
Regimental badge o the Scots Guards
Active	1642–1651 1661–present
Kintra	Kinrick o Ingland (1686–1707) Kinrick o Great Breetain (1707–1800) Unitit Kinrick (1801–present)
Brainch	Breetish Airmy
Teep	Foot Guards
Role	1st Battalion – Mechanized Infantry F Company – Public Duties
Size	Ane battalion Ane company
Pairt o	Guards Division
Garrison/HQ	RHQ – Lunnon 1st Battalion – Mons Barracks, Aldershot Garrison F Company – Lunnon
Nickname(s)	The Kiddies; Jock Guards
Motto(s)	"Nemo Me Impune Lacessit" (Laitin) "No ane touches me wi impunity"
Mairch	Quick – Hielan' Laddie Slow – The Garb of Old Gaul
Anniversaries	St Andrew's Day Nov 30 Battle o Mount Tumbledown jun 13
Commanders
Colonel-in-Chief	Elizabeth II
Colonel o the Regiment	Prince Edward, Duke o Kent KG, GCMG, GCVO
Insignia
Tactical Recognition Flash
Tartan	Royal Stewart (pipers kilts and plaids)
Plume	none
Abbreviation	SG

The Scots Guards (SG), pairt o the Guards Diveesion, is ane o the Fit Guards regiments o the Breetish Airmy. Their origins lie i the personal bodyguard o Charles I, Keeng o Scots. Its lineage can be tracit back tae 1642, althouch it wis only placit on the english establishment (thus becomin part o whit is now the british army) i 1686. It is the oldest formit regiment i the regular army, more sae than any other i the household brigade.

Battle honours

The battle honours o the Scots Guards are as follows:

• Pre-First World War: Namur 1695, Dettingen, Lincelles, Egypt, Talavera, Barrosa, Fuentes de oñoro, 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 an 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 o Alamein Line, Medenine, Tadjera Khir, Medjez Plain, Grich el Oued, Djebel Bou Aoukaz 1943 I, North Africa 1941–43
  • Italy: Salerno, Battipaglia, Volturno Crossing, Rocchetta e Croce, Monte Camino, Campoleone, Carroceto, Trasimene Line, Advance tae Florence, Monte San Michele, Catarelto Ridge, Argenta Gap, Italy 1943–45
• Post World War II: Tumbledown Mountain (Falkland Islands 1982), Gulf 1991

Alliances

• Australia – 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment
• Royal Navy – HMS Duncan

External links

• Scots Guards Homepage
• Scots Guards Association Homepage Archived 2020-02-25 at the Wayback Machine