-------------------------+-----------------+----------------------- | Colour of | Titles. +--------+--------+Campaigns, Battles, &c. |Uniform.|Facings.| -------------------------+--------+--------+----------------------- The 1st, or His Majesty’s|Scarlet,|Blue in |Maestricht, 1673. Own Troop of Guards. | 1660--.| 1679, |Boyne, 1690. 1660–1685| | and |Steenkirk, 1692. The 1st Troop of Life | |probably|Neer Landen, 1693. Guards of Horse. | | from |Flanders, 1692–1697. 1685–1788| | 1660. |Peninsula, 1812–1814. The 1st Life Guards. | | |Waterloo, 1815. 1788---- | | |Netherlands, 1815. -------------------------+--------+--------+----------------------- The Regiment was raised in Holland by King Charles II., and was at first composed of eighty gentlemen who had held commissions in the army of King Charles I. It wore cuirasses from its formation to 1698, and resumed them in 1821. It bears the Royal Arms as its crest. It is said the Regiments of Life Guards were at one time known as “the Cheeses,” from the old gentlemen of the Life Guards declining to serve in them as remodelled in 1788, saying they were no longer composed of gentlemen, but of cheesemongers. The 3rd and 4th (Scots) Troops of Life Guards, disbanded in 1746, saw much service in the campaign of 1742–47, in Flanders. SECOND LIFE GUARDS. -------------------------+-----------------+----------------------- | Colour of | Titles. +--------+--------+Campaigns, Battles, &c. |Uniform.|Facings.| -------------------------+--------+--------+----------------------- The 3rd, or the Duke of |Scarlet,| Sea- |Maestricht, 1673. Albemarle’s Troop of |1660--. | green, |Walcourt, 1689. Guards. 1660–1670| | 1660. |Flanders, 1689–1690. The 2nd, or The Queen’s | | Blue, |Namur, 1695. Troop of Guards. | | since |Flanders, 1694–1697. 1670–1685| | 1742. |Peninsula, 1812–1814. The 2nd Troop of Life | | |Waterloo, 1815. Guards of Horse. | | |Netherlands, 1815. 1685–1788| | | The 2nd Life Guards. | | | 1788---- | | | -------------------------+--------+--------+------------------------