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2nd Regiment of Life Guards

The 2nd Regiment of Life Guards was a cavalry regiment in the British Army, part of the Household Cavalry. It was formed in 1788 by the union of the 2nd Troop of Horse Guards and 2nd Troop of Horse Grenadier Guards. In 1922, it was amalgamated with the 1st Life Guards to form The Life Guards.

2nd Life Guards

1788–1922

 Kingdom of Great Britain (1788–1800)
 United Kingdom (1801–1922)

Army

Household Cavalry

Cavalry

History[edit]

The regiment was formed in 1788 by the union of the 2nd Troop of Horse Guards and 2nd Troop of Horse Grenadier Guards.[1] It fought in the Peninsular War, under the command of Major-General Charles Barton,[2] and at the Waterloo. In 1877, it was renamed 2nd Life Guards and contributed to the Household Cavalry Composite Regiment in the Anglo-Egyptian War, in the Second Boer War and in the First World War from August to November 1914. From 1916 to 1918, the Reserve Regiment contributed to the Household Battalion. In 1918, the regiment was converted to the 2nd Battalion, Guards Machine Gun Regiment. It was reconstituted in 1919 and was amalgamated with the 1st Life Guards in 1922 to form The Life Guards.[3]

Early Wars: , Peninsula, Waterloo, Tel-el-Kebir, Egypt 1882, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, South Africa 1899–1900

Dettingen

The Great War: , Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914, Messines 1914, Armentières 1914, Ypres 1914 '15 '17, Langemarck 1914, Gheluvelt, Nonne Bosschen, St. Julien, Frezenberg, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916, Arras 1917 '18, Scarpe 1917, Broodseinde, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Bapaume 1918, Hindenburg Line, Épehy, St. Quentin Canal, Beaurevoir, Cambrai 1918, Selle, France and Flanders 1914–18

Mons

The battle honours of the regiment were:[3]

1815–1830:

King George IV

1831–1837: [4]

King William IV

1880–1910: [5]

King Edward VII

1910–1922:

King George V

The Colonels-in-Chief of the regiment were:[3]

1788–1797: Field Marshal The Rt Hon KB

The Lord Amherst

1797–1843: General The Rt Hon. KT PC

The Earl Cathcart

1843–1854: General The Most Hon. KG GCB GCH PC

The Marquess of Londonderry

1854–1863: Field Marshal The Rt Hon. GCB GCMG GCH

The Lord Seaton

1863: General The Rt Hon. DL

The Earl Beauchamp

1863–1876: Field Marshal The Most Hon. KT GCB

The Marquess of Tweeddale

1876–1890: General The Rt Hon. GCB

The Viscount Templetown

1890–1900: General The Rt Hon. GCVO CB

The Earl Howe

1900–1905: General The Rt Hon. GCB GCVO

The Lord Chelmsford

1905–1907: Field Marshal The Rt Hon. GCB GCMG

The Lord Grenfell

1907–1919: Lieutenant General The Rt Hon. KCB KCVO

The Earl of Dundonald

1919–1922: Major General The Hon. GCVO KCMG CB

Sir Cecil Edward Bingham

The Colonels of the regiment were:[3]

Life Guards

British cavalry during the First World War

White-Spunner, Barney (2006). . Macmillan. ISBN 978-1405055741.

Horse Guards