Scots Guards
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| Founded | 1642 |
|---|---|
| March | Highland Laddie |
| The Garb of Old Gaul | |
| Garrison/HQ | 1st Battalion |
| Aldershot | |
| Catterick | |
| London | |
| Colonel-in-Chief | Elizabeth II |
| Abbreviation | SG |
| Parent organizations | British Army |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 2044054 |
About Scots Guards
The Scots Guards, is one of the Foot Guards regiments of the British Army. Their origins lie in the personal bodyguard of King Charles I of England and Scotland. Its lineage can be traced back to 1642, although it was only placed on the English Establishment in 1686.
Falklands War: Sir Galahad troops 'were sitting ducks'
... However, Argentina refused to surrender, and so in June another brigade which consisted mainly of Welsh and Scots Guards were sent to open up a southern flank...
David Stirling: The rogue soldier who created the SAS
... He joined the Scots Guards at the outbreak of World War II before being transferred to a newly-formed strike force, the Commandos...
King Charles celebrates his 74th birthday, his first as monarch
... Gun salutes will be fired across London in honour of his birthday for the first time, with the King s Troop Royal Horse Artillery firing 41 volleys from midday at London s Green Park and the Band of the Scots Guards also set to perform Happy Birthday immediately afterwards...
Queen's funeral: Full guide to the gun carriage and the main procession
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The procession in fullMounted Metropolitan Police • Royal Canadian Mounted Police • Bands of The Rifles and Brigade of Gurkhas • Representatives of the George Cross from Malta, the Royal Ulster Constabulary and the UK National Health Service Representative detachments of Commonwealth forces: Territorial Air Force of New Zealand • Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment • The Corps of Royal New Zealand Engineers • Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps • Royal Regiment of New Zealand Artillery • Royal New Zealand Navy • Royal Australian Air Force Reserve • Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps • Royal Australian Army Ordnance Corps • Royal Australian Infantry Corps • Royal Australian Engineers • Royal Regiment of Australian Artillery • Royal Australian Navy • The Canadian Armed Forces Legal Branch • The Royal Canadian Air Force (Reserve) • The Calgary Highlanders • The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada • The 48th Highlanders of Canada • The North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment • The Royal New Brunswick Regiment • Le Regiment de Ia Chaudière • The Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders (Princess Louise s) • The Canadian Grenadier Guards • Governor General s Foot Guards • Royal 22e Regiment • The King s Own Calgary Regiment (RCAC) The Governor General s Horse Guards • The Royal Canadian Engineers • The Canadian Armed Forces Military Engineering Branch • The Royal Regiment of Canadian ArtilleryRepresentatives of the Royal Air Force: 603 (City of Edinburgh) Squadron Royal Auxiliary Air Force • Royal Auxiliary Air Force • Royal Air Force Marham • The Combined Bands of the Royal Air Force • Royal Air Force College, Cranwell • Royal Air Force RegimentRepresentatives of the Army: The Honourable Artillery Company • Adjutant General s Corps • British Army Bands Sandhurst and Colchester • The Queen s Gurkha Engineers • The Royal Welsh • The Duke of Lancaster s Regiment • The Royal Regiment of Scotland • Welsh Guards • Irish Guards • Scots Guards • Coldstream Guards • Grenadier Guards • Bands of the Irish Guards and Welsh Guards • Corps of Royal Engineers • Royal Regiment of Artillery • Royal Tank Regiment • The Royal Lancers • The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys)Representatives of the Royal Navy: Royal Navy • Royal Marines • The Combined Bands of the Royal MarinesDefence advisers and staff of Her Majesty s realms: Jamaica • New Zealand • Australia • CanadaRepresentative colonels of Commonwealth forces of which Her Majesty was Colonel-in-ChiefChaplains of the armed forces: Principal Church of Scotland & Free Church Chaplain Royal Air Force • Principal Roman Catholic Chaplain Royal Air Force • Chaplain-in-Chief Royal Air Force • Deputy Chaplain General (Army) • Principal Roman Catholic Chaplain (Army) • Chaplain General (Army) • Principal Church of Scotland and Free Churches Chaplain (Royal Navy) • Principal Roman Catholic Chaplain (Royal Navy) • Chaplain of the FleetRepresentatives of forces of which the Queen was air commodore-in-chief • Representative Colonels Commandant, Colonels and Honorary Colonels of Her Majesty s Regiments and Corps • Commandant General, Royal Marines • Representatives of Her Majesty s ships • Commander Strategic Command • Vice Chief of the Defence Staff • Chief of the Air Staff • Chief of the General Staff • Chief of the Naval Staff • Chief of the Defence Staff • Drum Horse and State Trumpeter • 1st Division of the Sovereign s Escort • ADC to the Major General Commanding the Household Division • Brigade Major Household Division • Major General Commanding the Household Division • Combined Bands of the Scots Guards and Coldstream Guards Pursuivants and Heralds of Arms of Scotland: March • Linlithgow • Ormond • Rothesay • Falkland • Unicorn • Carrick • Marchmont Pursuivants and Heralds of Arms of England: Portcullis • Rouge Dragon • Norfolk • Windsor • York • Bluemantle • Wales • Maltravers • Chester • RichmondKings of Arms: Norroy and Ulster King of Arms • Lord Lyon King of Arms • Clarenceux King of Arms • Lady Usher of the Black Rod • Garter King of ArmsThe Earl Marshal • Bands of the Scots Guards and Coldstream Guards • Captain, the King s Body Guard of the Yeoman of the Guard • Captain general, the King s Body Guard for Scotland (Royal Company of Archers) (Gold Stick for Scotland) • Captain, His Majesty s Body Guard of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms Royal Household; Vice Chamberlain of the Household • Comptroller of the Household • Treasurer of the Household • Queen s Gurkha Orderly Officer (x2) • Royal Waterman (x2) • Director of the Royal Collection • Comptroller Lord Chamberlain s Office • Master of the Household • Keeper of the Privy Purse • Private secretary to the Queen • Master of the Horse • Lord Steward • Her Majesty s Page (x2) • Her Majesty s Palace StewardBehind the gun carriage: Escort Party of the Household CavalryRoyal Family: The Earl of Wessex and Forfar • The Duke of York • The Princess Royal • The King • Peter Phillips • The Duke of Sussex • The Prince of Wales • Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence • The Duke of Gloucester • The Earl of SnowdonRoyal Car 1: The Queen Consort • The Princess of WalesRoyal Car 2: The Duchess of Sussex • The Countess of Wessex and ForfarField officer in Brigade Waiting • Silver Stick in Waiting • Colonel Coldstream Guards • Gold Stick in Waiting • Adjutant in Brigade Waiting • Silver Stick Adjutant • Crown EquerryHousehold of the King: Master of the Household • Equerry • Principal Private Secretary • TreasurerSecond division of the Sovereign s escortRepresentatives of Civilian Services: Merchant Navy • Royal Fleet Auxiliary • The Maritime Coastguard Agency • Police Services • Fire and Rescue Services • His Majesty s Prison Services • Ambulance Service • British Red Cross • St John Ambulance • Royal Voluntary Service • Cadet forcesRear: Mounted Metropolitan PoliceOnce the procession reaches Wellington Arch at Hyde Park Corner, at about 13:00 BST, the coffin will be transferred to the new State Hearse for its final journey to Windsor Castle...
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... A former ski instructor, Wallace trained at Sandhurst before joining the Scots Guards as a platoon commander...
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... The Scots Guards spent their first three weeks of training confined to camp at Pirbright...
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... While in the Scots Guards, he is said to have broken the record for the largest ever bill at the bar in the officers mess...
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... Mr Wallace, a former Scots Guards officer, claimed Vladimir Putin had gone " full tonto" over actions ordering troops into Ukraine...
David Stirling: The rogue soldier who created the SAS
By Steven BrocklehurstBBC Scotland News
David Stirling , the Scot known as The Founder of the SAS, was not what you would expect of a military hero.
When he arrived in Cairo in 1941, the 25-year-old lacked The Most basic discipline, had never seen any actual fighting and could not even march straight.
He was so tall and lazy his comrades nicknamed him The Giant Sloth.
One report from his senior officers described him as " irresponsible and unremarkable".
Yet within a year Stirling, along with fellow Commando Jock Lewes , had developed a Brand New way of taking on The German and Italian forces who were dominating North Africa .
A six-part drama series recounting the exploits of Stirling and Lewes -- is currently being shown on Bbc One and the iPlayer.
Connor Swindells , star of Netflix hit Sex Education , plays Stirling and Game Of Thrones actor Alfie Allen stars as Lewes .
Actor Jack O'Connell plays one of the original volunteers, Paddy Mayne , an Irish Rugby international who Stirling claimed he had found in prison awaiting Court Martial for knocking out his commanding officer.
The TV series was created by Steven Knight and is based on The Book of the Same Name by Ben Macintyre , who also narrated a BBC TV documentary on the subject in 2017.
Mr Macintyre tells how Stirling was born into one of Scotland's grandest families at Keir House , close to Bridge of Allan, near Stirling.
He went to a private Boarding School near York before studying at the University of Cambridge, where he did not settle.
Stirling was an eccentric dreamer who had gone to Paris to become an artist while also hoping to be the First Man to climb Mount Everest .
He joined the Scots Guards at the outbreak of World War II before being transferred to a newly-formed Strike Force , the Commandos.
He was posted to Cairo But was frustrated when one Combat Mission after another was cancelled.
In Egypt he met Lewes , another wealthy soldier In Search of adventure. One of their first acts was to strap parachutes to their backs and jump out of a plane, despite neither of them having had any training.
" I was a bit unlucky because my parachute when it opened was attached to the tail plane, " Stirling said decades later.
" Before it broke lose it took off a panel or two of the parachute.
" I descended a good deal faster than my companion. "
It looked like he might not walk again due to the injuries he sustained, and he spent weeks in Hospital - But remarkably made a full recovery.
Along with Lewes , he dreamt up a scheme for a New Army unit that was imaginative, radical and entirely against The Rules .
" It had to be regarded as a new type of force, to extract the very maximum out of surprise and guile, " he told The Bbc in 1987.
Their idea was to destroy aircraft on the ground by using small raiding parties who would be able to penetrate behind enemy lines Without Warning .
Somehow the lowly lieutenant's plans were taken seriously as a way to help The British counter-attack against Rommel in North Africa .
It is possible his superiors thought it was worth trying As If it failed All That would be lost would be a handful of adventurers.
Stirling was promoted to captain and authorised to raise a force of six officers and 60 Men - and the Special Air Service (SAS) was born.
When interviewed by The Bbc years later, Stirling said he deliberately recruited brave and unconventional rogues.
He Said they were a " band of vagabonds" who were trying to escape from conventional regimental discipline.
" They weren't really controllable, they all had this individuality, " He Said .
" The object was to give them the same purpose. "
After Lewes took them through a course of Basic Training unlike anything the Army had seen before, the SAS's First Mission was to parachute into the desert and plant bombs on enemy aircraft.
The weather was atrocious, with Heavy Rain and winds of at least 30 knots, twice the Maximum Speed for parachuting.
High Command sent Stirling a message allowing him to cancel The Mission .
" We refused absolutely, " He Said .
So five ancient RAF planes struggled through a ferocious storm with 55 paratroopers ready to jump over The Target .
One by one they hurled themselves into the gale, with most landing miles from the Drop Zone .
The Mission was a total disaster and only 21 returned.
" It was tragic because there was so much talent in those we lost, " Stirling said.
Despite this calamity, Stirling was allowed to try again - This Time with the vehicles from the LRDG (Long Range Desert Group) driving them for days across the desert to Strike Under cover of darkness.
By early morning, Stirling and the LRDG had disappeared back into The Great Sand Sea, leaving behind them an epic trail of destruction and a bewildered enemy.
It was The First of a series of raids that terrorised and demoralised The German and Italian forces.
The death of Lewes at The End of December 1941 was a major setback for the SAS detachment, But by then they had destroyed 90 planes and left almost as many enemy dead.
Over The Next year, their tactics evolved to include raids from heavily-armed Jeeps.
German Field Marshall Erwin Rommel was said to have dubbed Stirling " The Phantom Major" after these devastating hit-and-run operations.
And Britain's wartime leader Winston Churchill was dazzled when he met Stirling in Cairo in August 1942.
Soon after that the SAS was upgraded from a detachment to a regiment and Stirling was made Lieutenant Colonel .
But in January 1943, he was finally captured by The Enemy and spent most of the rest of The War in Italian or German prisoner-of-war camps, including Colditz.
After The War , Stirling was appointed an OBE - But he was still a rebel and someone who did not play by The Rules .
His many post-war adventures included a company that handled arms deals between Britain and The Gulf states, as well as a private military company.
Stirling was also behind GB75, a private armed force, which said it was ready to take over if the UK lurched leftwards in the mid-1970s.
Despite his chequered post-war record he was knighted in 1990, the year he died at the Age Of 74.
In 2002, an Sas Memorial was erected at Doune near The Family 's Stirlingshire estate.
Source of news: bbc.com
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