Coldstream Guards

Coldstream Guards
Coldstream Guards
	Regimental badge of the Coldstream Guards
Active	1650–present
Country	Commonwealth of England (1650–1660); England; (1660–1707); Great Britain (1707–1800); United Kingdom; (1801–present)
Branch	British Army
Type	Infantry
Role	1st Battalion and No 17 Company – Light Role Infantry; No 7 Company – Public Duties
Size	One battalion – 559 personnel; One independent incremental company; One reserve company
Part of	Guards and Parachute Division
Garrison/HQ	RHQ – London; 1st Battalion—Windsor; No 7 Company—London; No 17 Company Hammersmith
Nickname	The Lilywhites
Mottos	Nulli Secundus; (Latin for 'Second to None')
March	Quick: "Milanollo"; Slow: "Figaro" ("Non più andrai" from The Marriage of Figaro)
Anniversaries	St George's Day (23 April)
Engagements	English Civil War; Monmouth Rebellion; War of the Spanish Succession; War of the Austrian Succession; Seven Years' War; American War of Independence; Napoleonic Wars; Crimean War; Second Boer War; World War I; World War II; Malayan Emergency; Mau Mau Uprising; Cyprus Emergency; The Troubles; Gulf War; Bosnia; Iraq War; Operation Herrick;
Commanders
Colonel-in-Chief	King Charles III
Colonel of; the Regiment	Lt Gen Sir James Bucknall
Regimental Lieutenant Colonel	Col. Toby P. O. Till
Insignia
Tactical Recognition Flash
Plume	Red; Right side of Bearskin cap
Abbreviation	COLDM GDS

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 this, it often participates in state ceremonial occasions. The Regiment has consistently provided formations on deployments around the world and has fought in the majority of the major conflicts in which the British Army has been engaged.

The Regiment has been in continuous service and has never been amalgamated. It was formed in 1650 as Monck's Regiment of Foot through the amalgamation of five companies each from Colonel George Fenwick's Regiment of Foot (raised in 1648 for Parliament during the Second English Civil War) and Sir Arthur Haselrig's Regiment of Foot (raised in 1643 for Parliament during the First English Civil War), 10 companies in total, and was then renamed the Lord General's Regiment of Foot Guards after the Restoration in 1660. With George Monck's death in 1670 it was again renamed the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards after the location in Scotland from which it marched to help restore the monarchy in 1660. Its name was again changed to the Coldstream Guards in 1855 and this is still its present title.

Today, the Regiment consists of: Regimental Headquarters, a single battalion (1st Battalion), an independent incremental company (Number 7 Company, maintaining the customs and traditions, as well as carrying the Colours of 2nd Battalion), a Regimental Band, a reserve company (Number 17 Company) and individuals at training establishments and other extra regimental employment.