Great Britain

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The Coldstream Guards

The Scots Guards

The Irish Guards

The Welsh Guards

	Kingdom of England			Kingdom of Scotland
1642:				Marquis of Argyll’s Royal Regiment │
1650:			Monck’s Regiment of Foot │	Lyfe Guard of Foot │ │
1651:			│ │	disbanded
1656:	Wentworth’s Royal Regiment of Guards │		│ │ │
1660:	│ │ │	Rusell’s Foot Guards │	│ │ │	The Scottish Regiment of Foot Guards │
1661:	│ │ │	│ │ │	Lord General’s Regiment of Foot Guards │	│ │ │
1665:	2nd Battalion,	1st Battalion,	│	│
	The King’s Regiment of Foot Guards │		│ │ │	│ │ │
1670:	│ │ │		The Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards │	│ │ │
1685:	1st Regiment of Foot Guards │		│ │	│ │
1689:	│ │		│ │	2nd Battalion raised │
1707:	Kingdom of Great Britain
	│		│	│
1711:	│ │		2nd Battalion raised │	│ │
1713:	│ │		│ │	3rd Regiment of Foot Guards │
1760:	3rd Battalion raised │		│ │	│ │
	│ │ │ │ │ │ │		│ │ │ │ │	│ │
1801:	4th Battalion raised │		│ │	│ │
1801:	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
	│		│	│
1804:	4th Battalion disbanded │		│ │	│ │
1815:	The First or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards │		│ │	│ │
1831:	│ │		│ │	The Scots Fusilier Guards │
1855:	│ │		The Coldstream Guards │	│ │
1877:	The Grenadier Guards │		│ │	The Scots Guards │
1897:	│ │		3rd Battalion raised │	│ │
1899:	│ │		│ │	3rd Battalion raised │
1900:	│ │		│ │	│ │	The Irish Guards │
1906:	│ │		│ │	3rd Battalion disbanded │	│ │
1914:	5th (Reserve) Battalion raised │		5th (Reserve) Battalion raised │	3rd (Reserve) Battalion raised │	3rd (Reserve) Battalion raised │
1915:	4th Battalion raised │ │		4th Battalion raised │ │	│ │ │	2nd Battalion raised │ │	The Welsh Guards 2nd (Reserve) Battalion raised │
	│		│	│	│	│
1919:	5th (Reserve) Battalion disbanded 4th Battalion disbanded │		5th (Reserve) Battalion disbanded 4th Battalion disbanded │	3rd (Reserve) Battalion disbanded │ │	3rd (Reserve) Battalion disbanded 2nd Battalion disbanded │	2nd (Reserve) Battalion disbanded │ │
1922:	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
	│		│	│	│	│
1939:	│ │		│ │	│ │	2nd Battalion raised │	2nd Battalion raised │
1940:	4th Battalion raised │ │		4th Battalion raised │ │	3rd Battalion raised 4th Battalion raised │	│ │ │	│ │ │
1941:	5th Battalion raised 6th Battalion raised │		5th Battalion raised 6th Battalion raised │	│ │ │	3rd Battalion raised │ │	3rd Battalion raised │ │
1943:	│ │		6th Battalion disbanded │	4th Battalion disbanded │	│ │	│ │
1944:	6th Battalion disbanded │		│ │	│ │	│ │	│ │
1945:	5th Battalion disbanded │		5th Battalion disbanded │	│ │	│ │	│ │
1946:	│ │		4th Battalion disbanded │	3rd Battalion disbanded │	3rd Battalion disbanded │	3rd Battalion disbanded │
1947:	4th Battalion disbanded │		│ │	│ │	2nd Battalion in suspended animation │	2nd Battalion in suspended animation │
1948:	part of The Guards Brigade │		part of The Guards Brigade │	part of The Guards Brigade │	part of The Guards Brigade │	part of The Guards Brigade │
1959:	│ │		3rd Battalion disbanded │	│ │	│ │	│ │
1961:	3rd Battalion disbanded │		│ │	│ │	│ │	│ │
1968:	part of The Guards Division │		part of The Guards Division │	part of The Guards Division │	part of The Guards Division │	part of The Guards Division │
1993:	│ │		2nd Battalion reduced to No 7 Company │	2nd Battalion reduced to F Company │	│ │	│ │
1994:	2nd Battalion reduced to Nijmegen Company │		│ │	│ │	│ │	│ │
2022:	│ │ │		│ │ │	│ │ │	2nd Battalion re-raised as No 9 Company and No 12 Company │	│ │ │

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