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{{Short description|British military unit}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2014}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2014}}
{{Infobox military unit
| unit_name                     = The Life Guards
| image                         = Life Guards Cap Badge.jpg
| image_size                    = 
| caption                       = [[Cap badge]] of the regiment
| dates                         = 21 May 1922{{Efn|The current 'Life Guards' were raised in 1922 following reductions to the Cavalry Corps.  The regiment's predecessors, the 1st and 2nd Life Guards, have their roots dating back to 1660.|group=lower-roman}}–present
| allegiance                    = United Kingdom
| branch                        = [[British Army]]
| type                          = Horse Guards
| role                          = [[Formation reconnaissance regiment|Armoured reconnaissance]] and [[Public duties|ceremonial]]
| size                          = [[Regiment]]
| command_structure             = [[Household Cavalry]]
| garrison                      = RHQ – London<br>Regiment – [[Bulford Camp]]
| nickname                      = 
| motto                         = {{lang|frm|[[Honi soit qui mal y pense]]}}<br>([[Middle French]] for 'Shame on him who thinks evil of it')
| march                         = Quick: "[[Milanollo#Coldstream|Milanollo]]" <br>Slow: "Life Guards Slow March" <br>Trot past: "[[Keel Row]]"
| identification_symbol         = [[Image:GuardsTRF.svg|75px]]
| identification_symbol_label   = Tactical Recognition Flash
| identification_symbol_4       = LG
| identification_symbol_4_label = Abbreviation
| ceremonial_chief              = [[King Charles III]]
| ceremonial_chief_label        = Colonel-in-Chief
| colonel_of_the_regiment       = Lt Gen Sir [[Edward Smyth-Osbourne]]
}}

'''The''' '''Life Guards''' (LG) is the most senior regiment of the [[British Army]] and part of the [[Household Cavalry]], along with [[Blues and Royals|The Blues and Royals]].

==History==
[[File:David Morier (1705^-70) - Private, 2nd Troop of Horse Guards, 1751 - RCIN 405605 - Royal Collection.jpg|thumb|A private of the 2nd Troop of Horse Guards in 1751]]

The Life Guards grew from the four [[troops of Horse Guards]] (exclusively formed of [[gentleman ranker]]s until the transformation of the last two remaining troops into Regiments of Life Guards in 1788)<ref>Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (1716) p. 115f.: ''Of the Troops of the Household''</ref><ref>''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]'', Vol. 8 (1797), p. 171: ''Horse Guards''</ref> raised by [[Charles II of England|Charles II]] around the time of his [[English Restoration|restoration]], plus two troops of [[Horse Grenadier Guards]] (rank and file composed of commoners),<ref>{{Cite book| last1=Tincey | first1=John | first2=Gerry | last2=Embleton | title=The British Army 1660-1704 | publisher=[[Osprey Publishing]] | location=Great Britain | year=1994 | page=43 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5SJbsv8TEqAC&pg=PA43 | access-date=2008-06-05 | isbn=978-1-85532-381-0}}</ref> which were raised some years later.<ref name=white>White-Spunner, p. xii</ref>
* The [[1st Troop of Horse Guards|first troop]] was originally raised in [[Bruges]] in 1658 as ''His Majesty's Own Troop of Horse Guards''. They formed part of the contingent raised by the exiled King [[Charles II of England|Charles II]] as his contribution to the army of King [[Philip IV of Spain]] who were fighting the French and their allies the [[English Commonwealth]] under the [[Lord Protector]] [[Oliver Cromwell]] in the [[Franco-Spanish War (1635–1659)|Franco-Spanish War]] and the concurrent [[Anglo-Spanish War (1654)|Anglo-Spanish War]].
* The [[2nd Troop of Horse Guards|second troop]] was founded in 1659 as ''[[George Monck|Monck's]] Life Guards''.
* The [[3rd Troop of Horse Guards|third troop]], like the first troop was formed in 1658 from exiled Royalists and was initially known as ''The [[James II of England|Duke of York's]] Troop of Horse Guards''.
* The [[4th Troop of Horse Guards|fourth troop]] was raised in 1661 in England.
* The [[Horse Grenadier Guards#Captains & Colonels, 1st Troop, Horse Grenadier Guards|first troop]] of horse grenadier guards was formed in 1693 from the amalgamation of three troops of [[grenadier]]s.
* The [[Horse Grenadier Guards#Captains & Colonels, 2nd Troop (Scots), Horse Grenadier Guards|second troop]] of horse grenadier guards was raised in Scotland in 1702.

These units first saw action during the [[Third Anglo-Dutch War]] in 1672 and then at the [[Battle of Sedgemoor]] during the [[Monmouth Rebellion]] in 1685.<ref name=mod>{{cite web|url=https://www.army.mod.uk/28088.aspx|title=The Life Guards|publisher=Ministry of Defence|access-date=3 May 2014}}</ref>

The 3rd and 4th troops were disbanded in 1746.<ref name=white/> In 1788, the remaining 1st and 2nd troops, along with the two troops of Horse Grenadier Guards, were reorganised into two regiments, the [[1st Regiment of Life Guards|1st]] and [[2nd Regiment of Life Guards|2nd Regiments of Life Guards]] (from 1877, simply '''1st Life Guards''' and '''2nd Life Guards''').<ref name=white/> From then on (1788), rank and file were mostly formed of commoners giving rise to their pejorative nickname: "the cheesemongers",<ref>''Slang Dictionaries'' (2014), edited by John Camden Hotten, Francis Grose, Ambrose Bierce</ref> while the bulk of the gentlemen-troopers were pensioned off.<ref>The statutes at large from the Magna Charta, to the end of the eleventh Parliament of Great Britain, anno 1761 [continued to 1806]. By Danby Pickering (1762); Vol. 36 (London, 1788), p. 362</ref>

From 1812 to 1814, two squadrons from each of the Life Guard regiments served in the [[Peninsular War]].<ref name="nam">{{cite web |url=https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/life-guards |title=1st and 2nd Life Guards |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |website=www.nam.ac.uk |publisher=National Army Museum |access-date=12 April 2024}}
</ref> In 1815 they were part of [[1st Cavalry Brigade (United Kingdom)|The Household Brigade]] at the [[Battle of Waterloo]] under Major-General [[Lord Edward Somerset]].<ref name=mod/> This would be their last active service for more than 60 years, during which time they performed ceremonial and public order duties in London.<ref name="nam"/>

In 1821, the Life Guards under the command of Captain Oakes fired upon mourners trying to redirect the funeral procession of [[Caroline of Brunswick|Queen Caroline]] through the city of London. Two civilians were killed. Though charges of manslaughter and murder were brought, no Life Guards were prosecuted.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.theguardian.com/theguardian/2011/aug/18/archive-caroline-of-brunswick-funeral-disorder-1821?amp_js_v=a2&amp_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQA#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Ftheguardian%2F2011%2Faug%2F18%2Farchive-caroline-of-brunswick-funeral-disorder-1821|title=From the archive, 18 August 1821: Two killed in Queen's funeral procession|date=18 August 2011|work=The Guardian|access-date=8 June 2019}}</ref>
[[File:1ST LIFE GUARDS.jpg|thumb|The 1st Life Guards in August 1914]]

Elements of the Life Guards, along with the [[Royal Horse Guards]], formed the [[Household Cavalry Composite Regiment]] (HCCR) for active service. The HCCR was in action in the [[Anglo-Egyptian War]] of 1882 and the [[Second Boer War]] of 1899 to 1902. The HCCR was mobilized again in 1914 at the start of the [[First World War]], where they formed part of the [[British Expeditionary Force (World War I)|British Expeditionary Force]] and fought in most of the major battles on the [[Western Front (World War I)|Western Front]].<ref name="nam"/>

In 1918, the two Life Guards regiments gave up their horses and were re-roled as machine gun battalions, becoming the 1st and 2nd Battalions, [[Guards Machine Gun Regiment]]. They reverted to their previous names and roles after the end of the war.<ref name=mod/> In 1922, the two regiments were merged into one regiment, ''The Life Guards (1st and 2nd)''.<ref name=white/> In 1928, it was re-designated '''The Life Guards'''.<ref name=mod/>

During the [[Second World War]], again forming part of the HCCR, the Life Guards undertook [[armoured reconnaissance]] duties in Palestine, Iraq, Iran, Egypt and Italy.<ref name="nam"/> In 1944, the Life Guards took part in the [[Normandy landings]] and the advance through France to liberate [[Brussels]].<ref name="mod" /> In the late 1940s, they were deployed to the Middle East, initially in [[Kingdom of Egypt|Egypt]], garrisoned at Kasr-el-Nil Barracks in [[Cairo]] from 1946 to 1947, and then in [[Mandatory Palestine|Palestine]] from 1947. In 1948, the unit left the Middle East and returned to England on leave. In 1952, it returned to [[West Germany|Germany]] as part of the [[11th Armoured Division (United Kingdom)|11th Armoured Division.]]<ref name=bau>{{cite web|url=http://british-army-units1945on.co.uk/royal-armoured-corps/life-guards.html|title=The Life Guards|publisher=British Army Units 1945 On|access-date=10 August 2023}}</ref>

Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, the unit repeatedly rotated from Britain to Germany. In 1965, the unit was deployed to Asia for the first time in central [[Malaysia]] until 1968, returning to England. Like in the past decades, the unit was stationed in West Germany and England through the early to late 1970s. During its deployments, the unit always maintained a squadron in London conducting public duties. In 1971, several squadrons were deployed to Northern Ireland during [[The Troubles]], and the regiment would see action there several more times through the mid-1970s. In March 1979, B Squadron was deployed to [[Cyprus]] as part of the [[United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus|United Nations Peacekeeping Force]], and this would become another location that components of the unit would be deployed to.<ref name=bau/>

In 1980, the unit's headquarters would be moved from Combermere Barracks in Windsor to Lothian Barracks in [[Detmold]], [[North Rhine-Westphalia]], West Germany as a part of the [[4th Armoured Division (United Kingdom)|4th Armoured Division]] of the [[British Army of the Rhine]], in a heavy armoured role equipped with [[Chieftain (tank)|Chieftain MBT]], and also tasked with the defense of part of the [[North German Plain]]. In January 1981 it became a component of the [[20th Armoured Brigade Combat Team (United Kingdom)|20th Armoured Brigade.]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=British Army units from 1945 on - Life Guards |url=http://british-army-units1945on.co.uk/royal-armoured-corps/life-guards.html |access-date=2023-08-10 |website=british-army-units1945on.co.uk}}</ref> The unit provided a mounted escort for then [[Charles III|Charles, Prince of Wales]] and then [[Diana, Princess of Wales|Lady Diana Spencer]] during their [[Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer|wedding ceremony]] on 29 July 1981, in [[London]]. Throughout the rest of the 1980s-1990s, its headquarters moved frequently from Germany to Britain, and in January 1984 had squadrons deployed to Cyprus as part of a UN tour.<ref name=bau/> In 1990–1991, the Life Guards saw action with their [[Challenger 1 tank]]s in the [[Gulf War]].<ref name="hcf">{{cite web |url=https://www.hcavfoundation.org/about/about-the-household-cavalry/history-of-the-household-cavalry/ |title=The Household Cavalry - Regimental History |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=www.hcavfoundation.org |publisher=The Household Cavalry Foundation |access-date=12 April 2024}}</ref>

[[File:A Jackal Vehicle and Soldier Stand Guard at a Vehicle Checkpoint in Afghanistan MOD 45153290.jpg|thumb|right|A [[Jackal (vehicle)|Jackal]] armoured vehicle of the Household Cavalry in [[Helmand Province]], 2011]]

In 1992, as part of the [[Options for Change]] defence review, The Life Guards were joined with the [[Blues and Royals]] in a 'Union', becoming part of the new [[Household Cavalry]], classified as a corps, not an amalgamation, forming the [[Household Cavalry Regiment]] (armoured reconnaissance) and the [[Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment]] (ceremonial duties). However, both units maintain their regimental identity, with distinct uniforms and traditions, and their own [[Colonel#Colonel of the Regiment|colonel]].<ref name=mod/> Like [[Blues and Royals|The Blues and Royals]], they have a peculiar non-commissioned rank structure: In brief, they lack [[sergeant]]s, replacing them with multiple grades of corporal.<ref>White-Spunner, p. xiv</ref> Since the union, the Household Cavalry Regiment has seen active service in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan.<ref name="hcf"/>

In 2018, the Life Guards began admitting women.<ref name= tatler>{{cite web |url= https://www.tatler.com/article/captain-elizabeth-godwin-of-the-life-guards-takes-talter-behind-the-scenes-at-horseguards-and-hyde-park-barracks|title= Meet the history-making Captain Elizabeth Godwin as she takes Talter behind the scenes at Horse Guards and Hyde Park Barracks|last= Chelsea|first= Davina|date= 1 September 2023|website= [[Tatler]] |publisher= [[Condé Nast]]|access-date= 5 September 2023}}</ref> In 2020, [[Elizabeth Godwin]] became the first woman to be commissioned as an officer in the Life Guards.<ref name= tatler/>

===Previous names===
Names used by the regiment were as follows:<ref name=white/>
* From 1788, '''1st Regiment of Life Guards''' and '''2nd Regiment of Life Guards'''
** The following troops were reorganised into 1st Regiment of Life Guards
*** [[1st Troop of Horse Guards]]
*** [[Horse Grenadier Guards#Captains & Colonels|1st Troop, Horse Grenadier Guards]]
** and the following troops were reorganised into 2nd Regiment of Life Guards
*** [[2nd Troop of Horse Guards]]
*** [[Horse Grenadier Guards#Captains & Colonels|2nd Troop (Scots), Horse Grenadier Guards]]
* From 1877, '''1st Life Guards''' and '''2nd Life Guards'''
* From 1922, '''The Life Guards (1st and 2nd)'''
* From 1928, '''The Life Guards'''

==Uniform==
{{multiple image
 | width = 150
 | header = Troopers in [[full dress uniform]]
 | image1 = Horse Guards, London April 2006 026.jpg
 | alt1 = 
 | caption1 = Mounted, with cuirass
 | image2 = Horse Guards, London April 2006 027.jpg
 | alt2 = 
 | caption2 = Dismounted, without cuirass
}}
[[File:Life Guards officer's full dress tunic.jpg|thumb|150px|right|[[Full dress uniform|Full dress]] tunic worn by an officer]]
On ceremonial occasions, The Life Guards wear a scarlet tunic, a metal [[cuirass]] and [[Albert helmet|a matching helmet]] with a white [[Hackle|plume]] worn bound on the top into an 'onion' shape; the exceptions to this are the regiment's trumpeters, who wear a red plume, and farriers, who wear blue tunics and have a black plume.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.trooping-the-colour.co.uk/trooping/mounted.htm |title=The Rank Past of the Mounted Guards |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |website=Trooping the Colour |access-date=15 June 2015 }}</ref> In addition, The Life Guards wear their chin strap below their lower lip, as opposed to [[Blues and Royals|The Blues and Royals]], who wear it under their chin. On service dress, The Life Guards Officers and Warrant Officers Class One wear a red lanyard on the right shoulder, as well as a [[Sam Browne belt]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://householdcavalry.info/uniforms.html|title=The Household Cavalry: Order of dress and explanation of the items of clothing|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141117132639/http://householdcavalry.info/uniforms.html|archive-date=17 November 2014|url-status=dead|access-date=3 May 2014}}</ref> The Life Guards, as part of the Household Division, does not use the [[Order of the Bath]] Star for its officer rank "pips", but rather the [[Order of the Garter]] Star.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.victorianstrollers.co.uk/stevesuniforms/ranks.html|title=Ranks and Insignia for Infantry Officers through out the Victorian Era|publisher=Victorian Strollers|access-date=29 July 2016}}</ref>

==Battle honours==
The battle honours are:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://householdcavalry.info/standrds.html|title=The Household Cavalry: Standards|access-date=3 May 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203054031/http://www.householdcavalry.info/standrds.html|archive-date=3 February 2014|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
[combined battle honours of 1st Life Guards and 2nd Life Guards, with the following emblazoned]:{{efn|group=lower-roman|The regiment maintained the fiction of separate regiments until 1928, receiving in 1927 two separate sets of Standards with different (but almost identical) battle honours emblazoned.}}
*[[Battle of Dettingen|Dettingen]], [[Peninsular War|Peninsula]], [[Battle of Waterloo|Waterloo]], [[Battle of Tel el-Kebir|Tel-el-Kebir]], [[Urabi Revolt|Egypt 1882]], [[Siege of Kimberley|Relief of Kimberley]], [[Battle of Paardeberg|Paardeberg]], [[Second Boer War|South Africa 1899–1900]]
*The Great War:{{efn|group=lower-roman|Revised combined list issued May 1933, omitting from emblazonment "Passchendaele" and "St. Quentin Canal" of the 1st Life Guards.}} [[Battle of Mons|Mons]], [[Battle of Le Cateau|Le Cateau]], [[First Battle of the Marne|Marne 1914]], [[First Battle of the Aisne|Aisne 1914]], [[Battle of Messines (1914)|Messines 1914]], [[First Battle of Ypres|Ypres 1914]], [[Battle of Passchendaele|Passchendaele 1917]] '18, [[Battle of the Somme|Somme 1916]] [[Second Battle of the Somme|'18]], [[Arras 1917]] [[Arras 1918 (Battle honour)|'18]], [[Hindenburg Line]], [[France and Flanders 1914–18]]
*The Second World War:{{efn|group=lower-roman|name="Joint"|Awarded jointly to The Life Guards and Blues and Royals, for services of Household Cavalry Regiment.}} [[Operation Bluecoat|Mont Pincon, Souleuvre]], [[Second Battle of the Odon|Noireau Crossing]], [[Operation Jericho|Amiens 1944]], [[Liberation of Belgium|Brussels]], [[Joe's Bridge|Neerpelt]], [[Operation Market Garden|Nederrijn]], [[Battle of Nijmegen|Nijmegen]], [[Western Allied invasion of Germany|Lingen, Bentheim]], [[North-West Europe Campaign of 1944–1945|North-West Europe 1944-45]], [[Anglo-Iraqi War|Baghdad 1941, Iraq 1941]], [[Battle of Palmyra (1941)|Palmyra]], [[Syria–Lebanon Campaign|Syria 1941]], [[El Alamein]], [[North Africa 1942–43]], [[Italian campaign (World War II)|Arezzo, Advance to Florence]], [[Gothic Line]], Italy 1944
*[[Battle of Wadi al-Batin|Wadi al Batin]], [[Gulf War|Gulf 1991]], [[Battle of Basra (2003)|Al Basrah]], [[2003 invasion of Iraq|Iraq 2003]].{{efn|group=lower-roman|name="Joint"}}

==Commanding officers==
The Commanding Officers of the regiment have been:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/REGIMENTAL%20COs.pdf|title=Regiments and Commanding Officers, 1960 - Colin Mackie|page=11|access-date=3 November 2020}}</ref>
*Lt Col Emerson M. Turnbull: November 1959 – April 1962
*Lt Col Julian P. Fane: April 1962 – May 1964
*Lt Col Sir James W. Scott: May 1964 – October 1966
*Lt Col Ian B. Baillie: October 1966 – May 1969
*Lt Col [[Desmond Langley|Henry Desmond A. Langley]]: May 1969 – September 1971
*Lt Col Simon E. M. Bradish-Ellammes: December 1971 – December 1973
*Lt Col [[Simon Cooper (British Army officer)|Simon C. Cooper]]: December 1973 – August 1976
*Lt Col Andrew J. Hartigan: August 1976 – October 1978
*Lt Col [[Sir Arthur Gooch, 14th Baronet|Arthur B. S. H. Gooch]]: October 1978 – February 1981
*Lt Col James B. Emson: February 1981 – July 1983
*Lt Col [[Timothy Earl|Timothy J. Earl]]: July 1983 – November 1985
*Lt Col V. Anthony L. Goodhew: November 1985 – June 1988
*Lt Col James W. M. Ellery: June 1988 – December 1990
*Lt Col Anthony P. de Ritter: December 1990 – October 1992

==Colonels-in-Chief==
The Colonels-in-Chief of the regiment were:<ref name=regt>{{cite web |url=http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/guards/c-1LG.htm |title=1st Life Guards |publisher=regiments.org |access-date=27 September 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060822071202/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/guards/c-LG.htm |archive-date=22 August 2006 }}</ref>
*21 May 1922 – 1 February 1936: King [[George V]]
*1 February 1936 – 10 December 1936: King [[Edward VIII]]
*10 December 1936 – 6 February 1952: King [[George VI]]
*6 February 1952 – 8 September 2022: Queen [[Elizabeth II]]
*8 September 2022 — present: King [[Charles III]]

==Regimental Colonels==
The Regimental Colonels were:<ref name=regt/>
*1922: 	Major General Sir [[Cecil Edward Bingham]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|GCVO|KCMG|CB}} (from [[2nd Regiment of Life Guards|2nd Life Guards]]; Joint Colonel)
*1922: 	Field Marshal [[Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|GCB|GCMG|GCVO|KStJ}} (from [[1st Life Guards]]; Joint Colonel)
*1936–1957: Major General [[Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KG|GCB|GCMG|GCVO|DSO|KStJ|PC|ADC|FRS}}
*1957–1965: Field Marshal [[John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|GCB|CBE|DSO**|MC}}
*1965–1979: Lieutenant General [[Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KG|GCB|OM|GCSI|GCIE|GCVO|DSO|GCStJ|PC|ADC}}
*1979–1999: Major General [[Lord Michael Fitzalan-Howard]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|GCVO|CB|CBE|MC|DL}}
*1999–2019: Field Marshal [[Charles Guthrie, Baron Guthrie of Craigiebank]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|GCB|GCVO|OBE|DL}}
*2019–present: Lieutenant General Sir [[Edward Smyth-Osbourne]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KCVO|CBE}}

==Order of precedence==
{{S-start}}
{{order of precedence | 
  before= First in Order of<br>Precedence of the Cavalry |
  title= [[British Army Order of Precedence|Cavalry Order of Precedence]]|
  after= [[Blues and Royals|The Blues and Royals<br>(Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons)]]
}}
{{S-end}}

== Gallery ==
<gallery widths="155px" heights="165px" perrow="4">
Image:Life guard (buste) - Whitehall.jpg|{{center|Life Guard (close up of helmet and [[Plume (feather)|plume]])}}
Image:Life guards - Whitehall (London).JPG|{{center|Life Guards (wearing [[cloak]]s over [[full dress uniform]])}}
Image:Sheet Street and the Band of The Life Guards - geograph.org.uk - 1514475.jpg|{{center|The Band of The Life Guards}}
File:Andrew Radford CGC IMG 0275.jpg|Group of medals belonging to Andrew Radford CGC including Conspicuous Gallantry Cross 
</gallery>

==Notes==
{{Reflist|group=lower-roman}}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

=== Bibliography ===
* {{cite book|first=Granville|last=Baker|title=Old Cavalry Stations|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.279111|publisher=Heath Cranton Ltd|date=1934}}
* {{cite book|first=Major N P|last=Dawnay|title=The Standards of the Household Cavalry|publisher=Gale and Polden, Aldershot|date=n.d.}}
* {{cite book|first=W|last=Lloyd|title=Challengers and Chargers: A History of The Life Guards 1945-1992|publisher=Leo Cooper|date=1992}}
* {{cite book|first=Andrew|last=Roberts|title=Waterloo|url=https://archive.org/details/waterloojune181800robe|url-access=registration|publisher=Harper Collins|date=2005|isbn=9780060088668 }}
* {{cite book|author=Roynon, Gavin|author-link=Gavin Roynon|title=Massacre of Innocents: The Crofton Diaries 1914-15|publisher=Sutton publishing|date=2004}}
* {{cite book|first=J N P|last=Watson|title=Guardsmen of the Sky|publisher=Michael Russell|date=1997}}
* {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hP7yDpMGiEMC&q=life+guards+four+troops&pg=PR12|last=White-Spunner|first=Barney|title=Horse Guards|year=2006|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=978-1405055741}}

==External links==
{{Commons category|Life Guards (British Army)}}
* [https://www.army.mod.uk/28088.aspx Official website]
* [https://householdcavalry.co.uk/old-comrades/the-life-guards/ The Life Guards Association]
* [https://householdcavalry.co.uk/ Household Cavalry website]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20101128122339/http://theoldoaktree.net/ Unofficial site for serving and ex-Life Guards of all ranks] (archive copy)

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