Coldstream Guards
part of the Guards Division, Foot Guards regiments of the British Army
Facts
22 propertiesIdentity
- Instance of
- foot guards, British infantry regiment, military branch[3][4]
- Official website
- www.army.mod.uk
- Short name
- COLDM GDS
Status and dates
- Inception
- 1650[14]
Location
- Headquarters location
- London, Victoria Barracks, Windsor Castle, Wellington Barracks, Hammersmith[7][8][9][10]
- Country
- Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800), Kingdom of England (1660–1707), Commonwealth of England (1650–1660), United Kingdom (1801–present)[2]
- Location of formation
- Coldstream
People
Relations
- Part of
- Guards Division[12]
More facts +13
- Website
- www.army.mod.uk
- Founded by
- George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle
- Headquarters
- London, Victoria Barracks, Windsor Castle, Wellington Barracks, Hammersmith
- Archives at
- National Library of Wales[13]
- Colonel-in-chief
- Charles III
- Conflict
- World War II, War in Afghanistan (2001–2021), Peninsular War, World War I, English Civil War, Monmouth Rebellion, War of the Spanish Succession, War of the Austrian Succession, Seven Years' War, American Revolutionary War, Napoleonic Wars, Crimean War, Second Boer War, Malayan Emergency, Mau Mau rebellion, Cyprus Emergency, Gulf War, United Nations Protection Force, Iraq War, Operation Herrick
- Described by source
- Nordisk familjebok, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)
- Military branch
- British Army[11]
- Motto
- Nulli Secundus
- Named after
- Coldstream[6]
- Nickname
- The Lilywhites
- Participated in conflict
- World War II, War in Afghanistan (2001–2021), Peninsular War, World War I, English Civil War, Monmouth Rebellion, War of the Spanish Succession, War of the Austrian Succession, Seven Years' War, American Revolutionary War, Napoleonic Wars, Crimean War, Second Boer War, Malayan Emergency, Mau Mau rebellion, Cyprus Emergency, Gulf War, United Nations Protection Force, Iraq War, Operation Herrick[15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22]
- Social media followers
- 9.9k (7.2k–9.9k, n=3)
🏷️ Also known as
en Monk's Regiment
en The Coldstream Guards
en 2nd Foot Guards
en 2nd Regiment of Foot Guards
en COLDM GDS
en Coldstream Guards
en Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards
en Her Majesty's Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards
en His Majesty's Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards
ar حرس كولدستريم
de Britisches Infanterieregiment 2. Garde
es Guardias de Coldstream
fa گارد کلداستریم
he משמר קולדסטרים
it Guardie Coldstream
ja コールドストリームガーズ
ja コールドストリームガーズ連隊
ja コールドストリーム近衛歩兵連隊
ja コールドストリーム近衛連隊
ja 近衛コールドストリーム歩兵連隊
🔖 Identifiers · 11
- Image (Wikimedia Commons)
- Coldstream Guards Badge.png ↗
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
- topic/Coldstream-Guards
- Facebook username
- coldstreamguards
- Freebase ID
- /m/01d3rj
- Instagram username
- coldstream_guards
- MusicBrainz artist ID
- 6c40e3d1-2d02-4f6e-abe4-3f7d9f5fb618
- National Library of Wales Authority ID
- great-britain-army-coldstream-guards
- Topic's main category
- Category:Coldstream Guards
- UK Parliament thesaurus ID
- 351323
- X (Twitter) username
- ColdstreamGds
🔗 Connections
Participated in conflict 20
Headquarters location 3
Described by source 2
← Military branch 2
Archives at 1
Colonel-in-chief 1
Founder 1
Instance of 1
Location of formation 1
Military branch 1
Named after 1
Part of 1
SNARC ID 1
← Affiliation 1
← Commander of (DEPRECATED) 1
← Military unit 1
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Summary
Coldstream Guards is a foot guards[1].
Body
Founding
Its location of formation is recorded as Coldstream[23].
Identity
Its short name is recorded as COLDM GDS[24].
Operations
Headquarters locations include London[7], a metropolis[25], in Roman Empire[26], founded in 0047[27]; Victoria Barracks, Windsor Castle[8], a barracks[28], in United Kingdom[29]; Wellington Barracks[9], a barracks[30], in United Kingdom[31], founded in 1833[32]; and Hammersmith[10], an area of London[33], in United Kingdom[34].