Category: Life Guards

Categories: British Army

The Life Guards is the senior regiment of the British Army and part of the Household Cavalry.

The Life Guards grew from the four troops of Horse Guards raised by Charles II in the middle of the 17th C., plus two troops of Horse Grenadier Guards. These units first saw action during the Third Anglo-Dutch War in 1672 and then at the Battle of Sedgemoor during the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685.

In 1788, the 1st and 2nd troops, along with the two troops of Horse Grenadier Guards, were reorganised into two regiments, the 1st and 2nd Regiments of Life Guards (from 1877, simply called 1st Life Guards and 2nd Life Guards).

In 1922, the two Regiments were amalgamated into the Life Guards.

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Nicholas Assheton 23 May 1934 Westminster, London, England, United Kingdom - 27 Nov 2012

Ralph Assheton 1920s

Living Assheton

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Jack Casey abt 1997 Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, United States - 07 Feb 2024

Douglas (Cochrane) Cochrane Twelfth Earl Dundonald abt 29 Oct 1852 Scotland, United Kingdom - abt 12 Apr 1935

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Edward Eliot 02 Apr 1827 London, England - 26 Nov 1864

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Edward FitzRoy 24 Jul 1869 London, England, United Kingdom - 03 Mar 1943

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Richard Gooch 22 Mar 1930 - 19 Apr 1999

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Robert Gooch 06 May 1903 Blything, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom - 13 Nov 1978

Stanley Gowman 1900 Croydon, Surrey, England - 1956

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Philip Livingston 25 Nov 1928 Hewlett, Nassau, New York, United States - 04 Mar 2018

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Stewart Menzies 30 Jan 1890 London, England, United Kingdom - 29 May 1968

George Monckton-Arundell 24 Mar 1882 England - 27 Mar 1943

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Bruce Ogilvy 15 Mar 1895 Cork, County Cork, Ireland - 29 Sep 1976

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Edward Pellew abt 1793 England - bef 09 Oct 1819

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Algernon Smith 01 Sep 1892 Chelsea, London, England, United Kingdom - 14 Oct 1914

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Living Tarling

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Francis Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone 26 May 1851 - 20 Apr 1929

Harcourt Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone 03 Jan 1829 - 01 Mar 1916

Arthur Vansittart 02 May 1807 - 22 Apr 1859

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Terence Watt 13 Sep 1906 Londonderry, County Londonderry, Ireland - 17 Jul 1942

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David Yorke 26 Oct 1927 - 31 Jul 2017

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