It is nicknamed “The Sand Bags,” also “Old Eyes.”
COLDSTREAM GUARDS.
| Titles. | Colour of | Campaigns, Battles, &c. | |||
| Uniform. | Facings. | ||||
| Colonel Monck’s Regiment of Foot. 1650–1660 The Lord General’s Regiment of Foot. 1660–1661 The Lord General’s Regiment of Foot Guards. 1661–1670 The Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards. 1670–1817 Coldstream Guards. 1817—— | Scarlet, 1650—. | Green, 1650–1685. Blue, 1685—. | Tanjier, 1680–1683. Walcourt, 1689. Steenkirk, 1692. Neer-Landen, 1693. Namur, 1695. Flanders, 1689–1697. Gibraltar, 1705. Barcelona, 1705–1706. Almanza, 1707. Spain, 1704–1708. Oudenarde, 1708. Ghent, 1708. Malplaquet, 1709. Bouchain, 1711. Germany, 1707–1713. Dettingen, 1743. Fontenoy, 1745. Flanders, 1742–1745. Cherbourg, 1758. | Denkern, 1761. Wilhelmstahl, 1762. Germany, 1760–1762. Brooklyn, 1776. Brandywine, 1777. Germantown, 1777. Freehold, 1778. Guildford, 1781. America, 1776–1781. Tournay, 1793. Valenciennes, 1793. Lincelles, 1793. Cateau, 1794. Flanders, 1793–1795. Helder, 1799. Crabbendam, 1799. Bergen, 1799. Egmont-op-Zee, 1799. Alkmaer, 1799. | Aboukir, 1801. Alexandria, 1801. Marabout, 1801. Egypt, 1801. Copenhagen, 1807. Flushing, 1809. Douro, 1809. Talavera, 1809. Barrossa, 1811. St. Sebastian, 1813. Bayonne, 1814. Peninsula, 1809–1814. Bergen-op-Zoom, 1814. Quatre-Bras, 1815. Waterloo, 1815. Netherlands, 1814–15. Alma, 1854. Inkerman, 1854. Sevastopol, 1855. |
The Regiment is the only Infantry Regiment of the Parliamentary Army that was not disbanded at the Restoration in 1660. It was formed from Sir A. Heselrig’s and Colonel Fenwick’s Regiments of Foot.
It bore in 1669 six white balls and a red cross on a green ground; and in 1684, St. George’s Cross bordered white on a blue ground.
“The Duke of York and Albany’s Maritime Regiment,” raised in 1664, was incorporated with the Regiment in 1689.
It bears 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 “the Sphinx” for Egypt, 1801.
And also in—
- 1st Battalion—The Star of the Order of the Garter.
- 2nd Battalion—A Star of eight points within the Garter, with the Union Flag in the dexter canton.
It captured the Standard of the French Life Guards at Neer-Landen.