Coldstream Guards
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The Coldstream Guards is the oldest continuously serving regular regiment in the British Army. As part of the Household Division, one of its principal roles is the protection of the monarchy; due to t
c. 1751–1760 portrait of a regimental grenadier (centre)
Portrait of Robert Orme by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1756
Three regimental soldiers who served in the Crimean War
The Coldstream Guards (right) defending Hougoumont at the Battle of Waterloo
Grenadier Guards
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The Grenadier Guards, with full official title "The 1st or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards", is the most senior infantry regiment of the British Army, being at the top of the Infantry Order of Prece
Coldstream Guards
…of the Household Troops. The regiment was placed as the second senior regiment of Household Troops, as it entered the service of the Crown after the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards, but it answered to that by adopting the motto Nulli Secundus (Second to None) as the regiment is older than the senior regiment. The regiment always…
Regimental badge of the Grenadier Guards
1812 engraving of two regimental privates
Soldiers of the 4th Battalion, Grenadier Guards in 1914