Irish Guards

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Foot Guards regiment infantry regiment

The Irish Guards is a regiment of the British Army renowned for its ceremonial role in royal events and its distinguished combat service history.

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All labels observed (10)

Label	Occurrences
Irish Guards canonical	24
1st Battalion Irish Guards	2
Headquarters Company Irish Guards	1
Irish Guards Band	1
Irish Guards regiment	1
No. 1 Company Irish Guards	1
No. 2 Company Irish Guards	1
No. 3 Company Irish Guards	1
No. 9 Company, Irish Guards	1
Support Company Irish Guards	1

Statements (65)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Foot Guards regiment ⓘ infantry regiment ⓘ
abbreviation	IG ⓘ
allegiance	British monarch ⓘ
alliedUnit	Royal Australian Regiment ⓘ Royal Canadian Regiment ⓘ
associatedCountry	Ireland ⓘ
battleHonour	Operation Market Garden ⓘ surface form: Arnhem 1944 Monte Cassino Abbey ⓘ surface form: Monte Cassino Nijmegen ⓘ Rhine ⓘ Battle of the Somme ⓘ surface form: Somme 1916 Ypres ⓘ surface form: Ypres 1914
branch	British Army ⓘ
buttonArrangement	buttons in groups of four ⓘ
ceremonialChief	Colonel-in-Chief of the Irish Guards ⓘ
ceremonialDuty	Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace ⓘ State Opening of Parliament ⓘ Trooping the Colour ⓘ state visits and royal parades ⓘ
country	United Kingdom ⓘ
currentStructure	Irish Guards self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: 1st Battalion Irish Guards
decoratedWith	Victoria Crosses awarded to members of the regiment ⓘ
distinctiveFeature	shamrock on bearskin plume ⓘ
engagement	Cold War deployments in Germany ⓘ World War I ⓘ surface form: First World War Gulf War ⓘ Iraq War ⓘ Italian campaign ⓘ surface form: Italian Campaign North African campaign ⓘ surface form: North African Campaign Allied operations in Western Europe ⓘ surface form: North-West Europe Campaign 1944–1945 Second Boer War ⓘ World War II ⓘ surface form: Second World War The Troubles ⓘ surface form: The Troubles in Northern Ireland War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) ⓘ surface form: War in Afghanistan
foundedBy	Queen Victoria ⓘ
garrison	Aldershot ⓘ surface form: Aldershot Garrison Wellington Barracks ⓘ surface form: Wellington Barracks, London
hasSubunit	Irish Guards self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Headquarters Company Irish Guards Irish Guards self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: No. 1 Company Irish Guards Irish Guards self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: No. 2 Company Irish Guards Irish Guards self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: No. 3 Company Irish Guards Irish Guards self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Support Company Irish Guards
inception	1900 ⓘ
inceptionEvent	Second Boer War ⓘ
motto	The Paras ⓘ surface form: Quis Separabit
mottoLanguage	Latin ⓘ
mottoTranslation	Who shall separate us? ⓘ
nickname	The Micks ⓘ
notableOperation	Operation Herrick ⓘ Operation Market Garden ⓘ Operation Telic ⓘ
partOf	Guards Division ⓘ Household Division ⓘ
patronSaint	Saint Patrick ⓘ
plumeColour	blue plume on the right side of bearskin ⓘ
recruitmentFocus	Irish community in the United Kingdom ⓘ
regimentalColour	St Patrick’s blue and green elements ⓘ
regimentalMarch	St. Patrick's Day ⓘ surface form: St Patrick’s Day
regimentalMuseum	Irish Guards collection at the Guards Museum, London ⓘ
role	ceremonial duties ⓘ light infantry ⓘ public duties ⓘ
typeOfUnit	line infantry battalion ⓘ
uniform	scarlet tunic and bearskin cap ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Household Division → composedOf → Irish Guards ⓘ

Foot Guards → composedOf → Irish Guards ⓘ

Guards Division (informal for Foot Guards element) → includes → Irish Guards ⓘ

subject surface form: Guards Division

Irish Guards → currentStructure → Irish Guards self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: 1st Battalion Irish Guards