ABSTRACT
For administrative purposes the regiments of Foot Guards and Infantry (excluding the Brigade of Gurkhas and the three battalions of The Parachute Regiment) are divided into six divisions, organized as follows:
(Divisional Headquarters at Wellington Barracks, Birdcage Walk, - London)
1st Battalion Grenadier Guards 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards 1st Battalion Coldstrearn Guards 2nd Battalion Coldstrearn Guards 1st Battalion Scots Guards 2nd Battalion Scots Guards 1st Battalion Irish Guards 1st Battalion Welsh Guards
(Divisional Headquarters at The Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland) 1st Battalion The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) 1st Battalion The Royal Highlanders (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow
and Ayrshire Regiment) 1st Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers 1st Battalion The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) 1st Battalion The Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons) 1st Battalion The Gordon Highlanders 1st Battalion The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's)
(Divisional Headquarters at Bassingbourn Barracks, Royston, Hertfordshire)
(Divisional Headquarters at Imphal Barracks, York, Yorkshire)
1st Battalion The King's Own Border Regiment 1st Battalion The King's Regiment 1st Battalion The Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire 1st Battalion The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own
(Divisional Headquarters at Whittington Barracks, Lichfield, Staffordshire)
(29th/45th Foot) 1st Battalion The Royal Hampshire Regiment 1st Battalion The Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's) 1st Battalion The Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment (Berkshire and
(Divisional Headquarters at Peninsula Barracks, Winchester, Hampshire)
Colonel-in-Chief HRH The Princess Royal Mrs Mark Phillips
Colonel Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Richardson
Battle honours Tangier 1680 Namur 1695 Blenheim Ramillies Oudenarde
Malplaquet Louisburg Havannah Egmont-op-Zee Egypt (with the Sphinx) St Lucia 1803 Corunna Busaco Salamanca Vittoria St Sebastian Nive Peninsula Niagara Waterloo Nagpore
Maheidpoor Ava Alma Inkerman Sevastopol Taku Forts Pekin 1860 South Africa 1899-1902 Mons Le Cateau Retreat from Mons
Marne 1914, '18 Aisne 1914 La Bassee 1914 Neuve Chapelle Ypres 1915, '17, '18 Gravenstafel St Julien Frezenberg Bellewaarde
Aubers Festubert 1914 Loos Somme 1916, '18 Albert 1916, '18 Bazentin Pozieres Flers-Courcelette Le Transloy Ancre Heights Ancre 1916, '18 Arras 1917, '18 Scarpe 1917, '18 Arleux Pilckem
Langemarck 1917 Menin Road Polygon Wood Poelcappelle Passchendaele Cambrai 1917 St Quentin Rosieres Lys Estaires
Messines 1918 Hazebrouck Bailleul Kemmel Bethune Soissonais-
Ourcq Tardenois Amiens Bapaurne 1918 Drocourt-Queant Hindenburg Line Canal du Nord St Quentin Canal Beaurevoir Courtrai Selle Sambre France and Flanders 1914-18 Struma Macedonia 1915-18 Helles Landing at Helles Krithia Suvla Scimitar Hill Gallipoli 1915-16 Rumani Egypt 1915-16 Gaza El Mughar Nebi Samwil Jaffa Palestine 1917-18 Archangel 1918-19 Dyle Defence of Escaut St Orner-La Bassee Odon
Cheux Defence of Rauray Caen Esquay Mont Pincon Aart Nederrijn Best ScheIdt Flushing Meijel Venlo Pocket Roer Rhineland Reichwald Cleve Goch Rhine Uelzen Bremen
Artlenberg North-West Europe 1940, '44-45 Gothic Line Maradi Monte Gamberaldi Italy 1944-45 South East Asia 1941 Donbaik
Kohima Relief of Kohima Aradura Shwebo Mandalay Burma 1943-45
Regimental headquarters The Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland.
