Scots Guards

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The Scots Guards is one of the British Army’s oldest and most prestigious infantry regiments, renowned for its ceremonial role in guarding the monarch as well as its distinguished combat service.

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Label Occurrences
Scots Guards canonical 36
1st Battalion Scots Guards 1
2nd Battalion Scots Guards 1

Statements (51)

Predicate Object
instanceOf British Army regiment
Foot Guards regiment
infantry regiment
associatedNation Scotland
badge Thistle within the Garter surmounted by a crown
battleHonour El Alamein
Inkerman
Monte Cassino Abbey
surface form: Monte Cassino

Battle of the Somme
surface form: Somme 1916

Tumbledown Mountain
Waterloo
branch British Army
ceremonialDuty Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace
State Opening of Parliament
Trooping the Colour
guarding the sovereign
conflict Crimean War
English Civil War
Falklands War
World War I
surface form: First World War

Gulf War
Iraq War
Napoleonic Wars
Second Boer War
World War II
surface form: Second World War

War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
War of the Spanish Succession
country United Kingdom
foundedBy Charles I of England
surface form: King Charles I of England
garrison Aldershot
surface form: Aldershot Garrison

Wellington Barracks
surface form: Wellington Barracks, London
language English
motto Nemo me impune lacessit
mottoLanguage Latin
mottoTranslation No one provokes me with impunity
nickname The Scots
notableFeature one of the Foot Guards regiments responsible for guarding royal residences
one of the oldest regiments in the British Army
partOf Guards Division
Household Division
primaryAllegiance British monarch
raisedFor personal bodyguard of King Charles I
recruitingArea Northern England
Scotland
regimentalColour Royal blue facings
regimentalMarch Hielan’ Laddie
role ceremonial guard
line infantry
type armoured infantry (modern role)
uniformFeature buttons arranged in threes
no plumes in bearskin headdress

Referenced by (40)

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Household Division composedOf Scots Guards
Foot Guards composedOf Scots Guards
Guards Division (informal for Foot Guards element) includes Scots Guards
subject surface form: Guards Division
Queen's Guard composedOf Scots Guards
Battle of Mount Tumbledown unitUK Scots Guards
this entity surface form: 2nd Battalion Scots Guards
Household Division of the British Army hasRegiment Scots Guards
subject surface form: Household Division
Household Division of the British Army hasUnit Scots Guards
subject surface form: Household Division
this entity surface form: 1st Battalion Scots Guards
Hougoumont farm garrisonedBy Scots Guards
Wellington Barracks garrison Scots Guards
Guards Memorial commemorates Scots Guards
George Cornwallis-West servedIn Scots Guards
Guards Division composedOf Scots Guards
Guards Division hasSubUnit Scots Guards
The Scots refersTo Scots Guards
Victoria Barracks, Windsor usedBy Scots Guards
Tumbledown Mountain attackedByUnit Scots Guards
Gabriel de Montgomery militaryBranch Scots Guards
this entity surface form: Scottish Guard
Nemo me impune lacessit usedBy Scots Guards
Nemo me impune lacessit mottoOf Scots Guards
Iain Duncan Smith unit Scots Guards
Ben Wallace militaryUnit Scots Guards
Battle of Graspan involvedUnit Scots Guards
Battle of Belmont notableUnit Scots Guards
Lieutenant Colonel Mike Scott partOf Scots Guards
subject surface form: 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards
Archie Hamilton militaryUnit Scots Guards
3rd Duke of Fife militaryService Scots Guards
subject surface form: James Carnegie, 3rd Duke of Fife
Angus Ogilvy militaryBranch Scots Guards
1st Battalion Scots Guards partOf Scots Guards
1st Battalion Scots Guards regiment Scots Guards
1st Battalion Scots Guards commandStructure Scots Guards
this entity surface form: Scots Guards Regiment
2nd Battalion Scots Guards partOf Scots Guards
British Guards units hasMember Scots Guards
Sir Christopher Geidt militaryService Scots Guards
subject surface form: Christopher Geidt