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For hundreds of years the Household Division has been the most public and instantly recognisable section of the British Army.Since their inception all Regiments of the Army have held parades trooping their colours – or flags – for the entire world to see, but it is the seven Regiments of the Household Division whose trooping remains the most famous, and who parade every year to honour the Monarch’s birthday.
The Household Division are the monarch’s personal guard, and have been for almost half a millennium.They can be seen in and around Buckingham Palace and the London surrounds every single day.Though wearing the ceremonial red uniforms of the British Army of bygone days, every member of the Division is also a fighting soldier who spends half his time on parade and the other in combat in deadly zones such as Afghanistan, fighting often at the forefront of the whole Army.
The Division is split into two Brigades, the Foot Guards and the Household Cavalry.The Foot Guards consist of five Regiments, the Grenadier Guards, Coldstream Guards, Scots Guards (of which my father was a proud member for many years) Irish Guards and Welsh Guards.The Household Cavalry consists of two Regiments, the Lifeguards and the Blues and Royals.Both these Regiments ride horses on parade and tanks into battle, unlike the Foot Guards who are infantrymen.
To list the histories of each of the seven Regiments in the Division would literally take a volume of books, for to do so would be to detail the history of the British Army itself.For as long as there has been an army the Guards have been at the forefront of the fighting.The oldest of the Regiments, the Lifeguards, was founded in 1658.Between them the seven have as many battle honours as the sum total of some other nation’s entire armies.
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