FIRST OR GRENADIER GUARDS.

Titles.	Colour of		Campaigns, Battles, &c.
Titles.	Uniform.	Facings.	Campaigns, Battles, &c.
The King’s Royal Regiment of Guards. 1660–1685 The First Regiment of Foot Guards. 1685–1815 The First, or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards. 1815——	Scarlet, 1660—.	Blue, 1660—.	Tanjier, 1680–1683. Steenkirk, 1692. Neer-Landen, 1693. Namur, 1695. Flanders, 1691–1697. Schellenberg, 1704. Blenheim, 1704. Gibraltar, 1705. Barcelona, 1705–1706. Ramilies, 1706. Almanza, 1707. Spain, 1704–1708. Oudenarde, 1708. Ghent, 1708. Tournay, 1709. Malplaquet, 1709. Germany, 1702–1713. Gibraltar, 1727. Dettingen, 1743.	Fontenoy, 1745. Val, 1747. Flanders, 1742–1747. Cherbourg, 1758. Denkern, 1761. Wilhelmstahl, 1762. Germany, 1759–1762. Brooklyn, 1776. Brandywine, 1777. Germantown, 1777. Freehold, 1778. Guildford, 1781. America, 1776–1781. Valenciennes, 1793. Lincelles, 1793. Cateau, 1794. Flanders, 1793–1795. Helder, 1799. Crabbendam, 1799.	Bergen, 1799. Egmont-op-Zee, 1799. Alkmaer, 1799. Flushing, 1809. Corunna, 1809. Barrossa, 1811. St. Sebastian, 1813. Bayonne, 1814. Peninsula, 1808–1809. Do., 1810–1814. Bergen-op-Zoom, 1814. Quatre-Bras, 1815. Waterloo, 1815. Netherlands, 1814–1815. Alma, 1854. Inkerman, 1854. Sevastopol, 1855.

The Regiment was raised in London by Colonel John Russell.

It then bore the Red Cross of St. George on a white ground.

The King’s Regiment of Foot Guards raised in Flanders in 1656 by Lord Wentworth was incorporated with the Regiment in 1665.

It bears a Grenade, and also one of the ancient Badges conferred by Royal Authority on each of the Companies, the Badges being borne in turn as the Colours are renewed.

And also in—

1st Battalion—An Imperial Crown.
2nd Battalion—The Royal Cypher with the Union Flag in the dexter canton.
3rd Battalion—The Royal Cypher with a pile wavy issuant from the dexter canton.

It has a Crimson Standard presented in 1832 by King William IV., bearing the Royal Cypher crowned, with the badges of England, Scotland, and Ireland, in the corners, each surmounted by the Imperial Crown.

It received its title in 1815 in commemoration of its having defeated the French Imperial Guards at Waterloo.

It is nicknamed “The Sand Bags,” also “Old Eyes.”