💥From Helmand To Horse Guards💥Scots Guards💥Pipes & Drums

Motto:'Nemo Me Impune Lacessit' ( meaning 'No One Attacks Me With Impunity')
Between its formation and 1704 the regiment rose from six to 18 companies. From 1704 to 1714 one of these was kept in the Scottish Highlands to keep order there. The Regiment as a whole also remained in Scotland during the early 1700s until its 1709 posting to Spain.
During the First Jacobite Rebellion of 1715 it was on garrison duty in England and during the Second, 30 years later, both battalions briefly redeployed back from Flanders to protect London, with a detachment from 1st Battalion also being sent to pursue the rebel army to Carlisle on horseback. Its Flanders engagements during the 1740s included Dettingen, Fontenoy and Lauffeld.
The regiment's service during the 1750s included both the Germany campaign and amphibious raids on the Normandy coast. The following decade saw it and the other two foot guard regiments send 15 men per company to a composite Guards unit designed to fight in the American Revolutionary War. That unit fought at Brooklyn, Germantown, Guilford Courthouse and Yorktown.
The wars against France in the 1790s and early 1800s saw the regiment back in the Low Countries in both 1793 and 1809, as well as raiding the Spanish coast and fighting in Egypt and Spain. Its light companies garrisoned Hougoumont during the Battle of Waterloo and went on to keep order in France, Ireland and Manchester during the immediate post-war period. That period also saw them become the British Army's only Fusilier Guard regiment in 1831.
One officer and three men from the unit won the Victoria Cross for their conduct at the Alma in the Crimea in 1854. It also fought at Inkerman and Sevastopol. The regiment was mostly based in London for the rest of the 19th century, though it did send 1st Battalion to Egypt in 1882 and the Ashanti War in west Africa in 1829, and 2nd Battalion to Canada in 1862 and to the Sudan in 1885. That period also saw the unit drop the 'Fusilier' from its name in 1877.
Both battalions deployed to the Boer War and to the Western Front of the First World War and it also sent detachments to the siege of Sidney Street in 1911. Both the 1st and 2nd Battalions saw service in North Africa during the Second World War, with the former also going to Norway and Italy and the 2nd to North West Europe.
The regiment's post-war deployments have also been varied, ranging from Malaya, Borneo and Kenya to frequent deployments to Northern Ireland and action at Tumbledown during the Falklands War. In 1993 the 2nd Battalion was turned into the ceremonial 'F' Company, whilst the 1st Battalion remains active as armoured infantry, which deployed to Iraq for six months in 2004.

A view of the amazing Scottish country taken from around Scotland. A number of the photographs were taken by my friends.
Accompanied by the amazing music...From Helmand To Horse Guards by The Pipes and Drums of The Scots Guards. Available@amazon
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