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Scots Guards
Scottish Art Prints  Scottish Regiments  Scots Guards |
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Historical military art prints of the Scots Guards Regiment from the Battle of Alma depicting Captain Lindsay of the Scots Guards winning his VC to being on parade at Edinburgh Castle. The Regiment was raised by Archibald, 1st marques of argyle on the orders of King Charles 1st. He was authorised to raise a Regiment of 1500 men to help quash the rebellion in Ireland against the Scottish Colonists. This regiment was going to be commanded by the King himself circumstances made this impossible so the Regiment was lead by Sir Duncan Campbell of Aucinbreck. In 1650 When King Charles arrived in Scotland. The regiment became Lyfe Guards of Foot. with the 1st marques of Argyll's son as the Regiment 2nd Colonel. the regiment received its colours at Falkland palace. and during the Civil war fought against Cromwell's armies at Dunbar and Worcester. After these disastrous Battles the regiment disappeared. Until 1660 when the King issued order for the Companies of the reg9iment to be raised again. to garrison the castles of Edinburgh and Dumbarton. The full regiment came into force in 1662 under the command of its 3rd Colonel. The Earl of Linlithgow. |
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Scots Regiments of the British Army by Richard Simkin. Seaforth Highlanders, Royal Scots, Queens Own Cameron Highlanders, Cameronians, Black Watch, Highland Light Infantry, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, Royal Scots Fusiliers, Scots Guards, Gordon Highlanders, Kings Own Scottish Borderers. |
Scots Guards Fighting Through the Bocage by Terence Cuneo. Action of the right flank, 3rd Battalion Scots Guards during the advance from Caumont to Les Loges, Normandy, 30th July 1944. Commanding the Churchill tank, Lochinvar is Lt Robert Runcie later to become Archbishop of Canterbury. |
Scots Guards at Pan Kalay, Afghanistan by Graeme Lothian. Scots Guards at a police check-point at Pan Kalay in Helmand Province. The Scots Guards were operating from PB OUELLETTE during their Herrick 17 tour 2012-13. |
Battle for Tumbledown by Mark Churms. With Fixed Bayonets soldiers of 2nd battalion Scots Guards clear enemy positions of 5th Argentine Marine Battalion on the slopes of Tumbledown |
Moshtarak Dawn by Graeme Lothian. Dawn on the 13th February 2010, Soldiers disembark from Chinooks in the area of Operations - Helmind Province. The Regiments involved: The 1st Royal Welsh, 1st Grenadier Guards Battle Group, Scots Guards, US Marine Corps and various ISAF controlled units. ANA and ANP. |
Battle of Tumbledown Mountain by Terence Cuneo. On the 14th June 1982 the 2nd battalion Scots Guards captured one of the most strongly defended Argentine positions of the Falklands campaign, their losses were 9 killed and 43 wounded. |
2nd Battalion Scots Guards at Edinburgh Castle by David Rowlands. The installation of the Governor of Edinburgh Castle, receiving the Keys of the Castle by the Quarter Master 2nd Battalion. Summer 1991. |
Operation Mar Karadad - The Retaking of Musa Qal'eh by David Rowlands. Right Flank, 1st Battalion Scots Guards was an independent armoured infantry company attached to 52 Brigade during Operation HERRICK 7. The company was equipped with Warrior armoured fighting vehicles. The successful retaking of the town of Musa Qal'eh from the Taliban in December 2007 was code-named Operation MAR KARADAD. The scene shows a morning raid to clear the area of Taliban, when Right Flank was working under the Household Cavalry Regiment Battlegroup. |
Operation Moshtarak by Graeme Lothian. 3.30am, 13th February 2010. RAF Chinooks come in to land at Bastion to enplane troops. There were eleven flights of airframes commencing at 3.30 am and lasting three hours until first light. The Regiments involved: The 1st Royal Welsh, 1st Grenadier Guards Battle Group, Scots Guards, US Marine Corps and various ISAF controlled units. ANA and ANP. The scene was witnessed and filmed and photographed for the BBC by the official war artist on Herrick 11. |
Scots Guards by Richard Simkin No text for this item |
Scots Guards by Douglas Anderson No text for this item |
The Battle of Medenine, 6th march 1943, by Terence Cuneo. The anti Tank guns of the Left Flank Company 2nd battalion Scots Guards, during the battle of Medenine, The scene depicts the moment when Lt F A L Waldrons Platoon knocked out three German tanks as they came over the crest of the ridge. |
Lance Sergeant Fred McNess VC, Scots Guards in Action Near Gincy, France 15th September 1916 By David Rowlands. (GL) No text for this item |
Sergeant John McAulay, 1st Battalion Scots Guards Winning the VC at Fontaine Notre Dame, France 27th November 1917 By David Rowlands. (GL) No text for this item |
Second Lieutenant Rochfort picks up a bomb, which was about to explode, and hurls it from the trench. While a party of men was at work in a communication trench between Cambrin and La Bassee at 2 a.m. on the morning of August 3rd 1915, a bomb from a German trench mortar landed on the side of the parapet, close to them. Second Lieutenant George Arthur Boyd Rochfort, of the Special Reserve, 1st Battalion, Scots Guards, was standing a short way off at the time, and shouting to the men, he rushed at the bomb, seized it and hurled it over the parapet, where it instantly exploded. His courage and presence of mind saved the lives of many of the working party, and he was rewarded with the V.C. for most conspicuous bravery. |
The Scots Guards in the Great War 1914 - 1918. by F. Loraine Petre, Wilfrid Ewart and Major-General Sir Cecil Lowther. No text for this item |
Scots Guards by Harry Payne. No text for this item |
The Scots Guards by G Douglas Giles (P) No text for this item |
The Infantry of the Guard by Michael Angelo Hayes Combining all the regiments of Guards, Coldstream Guards, Grenadier Guards, Scots Guards and Irish Guards in this superb print. |
Captain The Lord Lyell VC by Terence Cuneo. The action depicts at Djebel Bou Aoukaz, Tunisia, 27th April 1943. Depicting Lyell charging the German 88mm gun position single handed (one other supporting Guardsman had been shot and killed) With pistol in one hand and dirk in the other, Lyell leaped forward firing and slashing, Five men fell at his feet, before he was overpowered and hacked to death. The scene was witnessed by a wounded Guardsman on the ridge. |
S Company Scots Guards in the battle of Monte Piccolo, Italy 28th May 1944. by Terence Cuneo. S Company Scots Guards along with 3 Company Coldstream Guards, after heavy fighting, captures the hill from the German 1st Parachute regiment. |
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