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The Scots Guards蘇格蘭近衛團
The Scots Guards have over three hundred and sixty years of unbroken service to the crown.
They can trace their origins back to an army that was raised by Archibald 1st Marquess of Argyll, 16 March 1642.
Since this date the Regiment has served in nearly every campaign in which the British Army has been involved in.
In 1686 they were brought onto the establishment of the English Army for the first time.
Eight years later they took precedence within the Foot Guards, despite their seniority by length of service. In 1695 the Regiment won its first major battle honour at the Siege of Namur, other notable battle honours that the Regiment has won are:
“Dettingen”
“Lincelles”
“Talavera”
“Waterloo”
“Alma”
“Egypt,1882”
“Modder River”
“Ypres, 1914, 17”
“Gazala”
“Monte Camino”
“Rhineland”
“Mount Tumbledown”
“Gulf War 1991”
(For a full list of Battle Honours click on the page on the left)
The Regiment has fought in the following wars and campaigns:
English Civil War, Marlborough’s Wars, The War of the Austrian Succession, The Seven Years War,
The Wars of The French Revolution,
The Peninsular Campaign, Waterloo,
Crimean War, Egyptian Campaign, South African War, 1899-1902, First & Second World Wars, 1st Malayan Emergency, 1948-52, Suez Canal Zone, Malaya, 1964-66, Northern Ireland, Gulf
War 1991, Falkland Islands, 1982 and Iraq 2005.
Titles and Designations of the Regiment From 1686 – 1831 the Regiment was known as the 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards and from 1831 – 1877 Scots Fusilier Guards.
However, since 1877 the Regiment has been called Scots Guards.
Battalions are designated “1st Battalion Scots Guards”, not “1st Battalion The Scots Guards”.
The companies of the Regiment are designated by letters in alphabetical order throughout the Regiment starting from the right of the 1st Battalion.
The flank companies are known not by their letter but as “Right Flank” and “Left Flank” respectively, the former being the senior company in the battalion.
The Flank companies are the direct descendants of the Grenadier (Right Flank) and Light Infantry Companies (Left Flank) that existed
during the nineteenth century.
Appointments The officer in command of the Regiment is referred to as “The Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding”.
This is in order to distinguish him from the Colonel of the Regiment, who since 1642 has been either a member of the Royal Family or a very senior officer of the Army, the current Colonel is HRH the Duke of Kent, G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., A.D.C. (P). The Regimental
Sergeant Major is referred to as “The Sergeant-Major” and the Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant as “The Quartermaster Sergeant”. All other Warrant and Non-commissioned Officers are referred to by their full title, except for lance ranks which are normally alluded to in speech.
Colour Sergeants who are appointed to be Company Quartermaster Sergeant are referred to by name of their appointment.
Marches & Calls The Regiment marches past in slow time to “The Garb of Old Gaul,” in quick time to” Heilan Laddie” (click on to listen) and advances in Review Order to “Scotland the Brave”.
Each Company has its own bugle call and pipe march.
Right Flank
“Greenwood Side” 'B' Company
“The Drunken Piper” 'C' Company
”The Back of Benachie”
Left Flank
“Scotland the Brave”
Headquarter Company
“Black Bear” 'F'
Company
“ A Man’s a Man for a’ That”.
Dress The badge worn in the headdress of the Regiment is referred to as a “Cap-Star”,
it is a four pointed star with the Cross of St Andrew and the Order of the Thistle in the centre.  No plume is worn in the Bearskin Cap.
This because of the introduction of this form of headdress to the three Regiments of Foot Guards in 1832 identifying plumes were provided only for the regiments who paraded on the flanks; since the Regiment always paraded in the centre between the Grenadiers and Coldstream it required no plume.
When practicable buttons are always worn in groups of threes – a custom dating from 1774.
No chin strap is worn on the Scots Guards Forage cap.
| | The Regimental Tartan is Royal Stuart. |
The rank stars of officers of the Regiment are the stars of the The Order of the Thistle and not stars of the Order of the bath as are worn by all other officers of the British Army outside the Household Division.
The Loyal Toast The Loyal Toast given by Pipers of the Regiment is “Deoch slainte na ban Righ” – “Here’s a health to the Queen.” For a more detailed history of the Scots Guards please consult the following books: History of the Scots Guards, 1642-1914, by Maj-Gen Sir F Maurice, The Scots Guards in the Great War 1914-1918, by Loraine F Petre, Wilfrid Ewart & Maj-Gen Sir Cecil Lowther, The Scots Guards, 1919-1955, by David Erskine, Among Friends, 1956-1993, by Maj-Gen Sir Murray Naylor.
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