- Royal Horse Guards
Infobox Military Unit
unit_name=Royal Horse Guards
caption=Member of the Royal Horse Guards, 1806
dates=1650-1969
country=United Kingdom
branch=Army
type=Cavalry
command_structure=
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size=
current_commander=
garrison=
colonel_in_chief=
colonel_of_the_regiment=
nickname=The Blues
motto="Honi soit qui mal y pense"
colors=
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march="Quick March": Grand March
"Slow March": Regimental Slow March of the Royal Horse Guards
mascot=
battles=See Battle honours list
notable_commanders=
anniversaries=The Royal Horse Guards (RHG) was a cavalry regiment of the
British Army , part of theHousehold Cavalry .Founded in 1650 by
Oliver Cromwell as the Regiment of Cuirassiers, theregiment became the Earl of Oxford's Regiment during the reign of King Charles II. As the regiment's uniform was blue in colour at the time, it was nicknamed "the Oxford Blues", from which was derived the nickname the "Blues." In 1750 the regiment became the Royal Horse Guards Blue and eventually, in 1877, the Royal Horse Guards (The Blues).In 1918, the regiment served as the 3rd Battalion,
Guards Machine Gun Regiment . During theSecond World War the regiment was part of the Household Cavalry Composite Regiment.The RHG was amalgamated with the Royal Dragoons (1st Dragoons) to form the
Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons) in 1969.Battle honours
*Dettingen, Warburg, Beaumont, Willems, Peninsula, Waterloo, Tel-el-Kebir, Egypt 1882, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, South Africa 1899-1900*
The Great War : Mons, 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 ,Loos ,Arras 1917,Scarpe 1917,Broodseinde ,Poelcappelle ,Passchendaele ,Hindenburg Line ,Cambrai 1918, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18*
The Second World War : Mont Pincon, Souleuvre, Noireau Crossing, Amiens 1944, Brussels, Neerpelt, Nederrijn, Nijmegen, Lingen, Bentheim, North-West Europe 1944-45, Baghdad 1941, Iraq 1941, Palmyra, Syria 1941, El Alamein, North Africa 1942-43, Arezzo, Advance to Florence, Gothic Line, Italy 1944ee also
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Horse Guards Regiment
*Governor General's Horse Guards External links
* [http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/guards/c-RHG.htm UK Regiments: Royal House Guards]
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