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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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	Arnhem 1944 → Monte Cassino → Nijmegen NERFINISHED → Rhine → Somme 1916 → 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	1st Battalion Irish Guards →
decoratedWith	Victoria Crosses awarded to members of the regiment →
distinctiveFeature	shamrock on bearskin plume →
engagement	Cold War deployments in Germany → First World War → Gulf War → Iraq War → Italian Campaign → North African Campaign → North-West Europe Campaign 1944–1945 → Second Boer War → Second World War → The Troubles in Northern Ireland → War in Afghanistan →
foundedBy	Queen Victoria →
garrison	Aldershot Garrison → Wellington Barracks, London →
hasSubunit	Headquarters Company Irish Guards → No. 1 Company Irish Guards → No. 2 Company Irish Guards → No. 3 Company Irish Guards → Support Company Irish Guards →
inception	1900 →
inceptionEvent	Second Boer War →
motto	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 →
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 →

Referenced by (16)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Irish Guards ("No. 1 Company Irish Guards") → Irish Guards ("No. 2 Company Irish Guards") → Irish Guards ("No. 3 Company Irish Guards") → Irish Guards ("Support Company Irish Guards") → Irish Guards ("Headquarters Company Irish Guards") →	hasSubunit
Foot Guards → Household Division → Queen's Guard →	composedOf
1st Earl Alexander of Tunis → Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander →	militaryUnit
Irish Guards ("1st Battalion Irish Guards") →	currentStructure
Wellington Barracks →	garrison
Household Division →	hasRegiment
Household Division ("1st Battalion Irish Guards") →	hasUnit
Guards Division →	includes
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg →	militaryBranch