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Badge |
Nicknames |
The Bangers Lumpers The Cheesemongers The Fly-slicers The Piccadilly Butchers The Roast and Boiled The Ticky Tins The Tin Bellies The Patent Safeties |
Motto |
Honi soit qui mal y pense Evil be to him who evil thinks |
Regimental Marches |
Millanollo (Quick)
Val Hamm |
The Life Guards Slow March (Slow) |
Regimental Anniversary |
Waterloo Day 18th June |
Colonels |
1660 - 1788 |
Soldiers |
1660 - 1788 |
Successor Units |
1st Life Guards (1660 - 1788) The Life Guards (1922 - ) |
Suggested Reading |
History of the Household Cavalry by Sir George Arthur (Constable: 1909, 1926: 3 vols) The Story of the First Life Guards (Harrap: 1922) Historical Record of the Life Guards (London: Clowes: 1836) |
Regimental Museum |
Household Cavalry Museum Combermere Barracks Windsor |
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