Scots Guards

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British Army regiment Foot Guards regiment infantry regiment

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.

Aliases (2)

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 → 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 → First World War → Gulf War → Iraq War → Napoleonic Wars → Second Boer War → Second World War → War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) → War of the Spanish Succession →
country	United Kingdom →
foundedBy	King Charles I of England →
garrison	Aldershot Garrison → 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 (9)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Foot Guards → Household Division → Queen's Guard →	composedOf
Wellington Barracks →	garrison
Hougoumont farm →	garrisonedBy
Household Division →	hasRegiment
Household Division ("1st Battalion Scots Guards") →	hasUnit
Guards Division →	includes
Battle of Mount Tumbledown ("2nd Battalion Scots Guards") →	unitUK