Battle honours The battle honours are: [combined battle honours of 1st Life Guards and 2nd Life Guards, with the following emblazoned]: Dettingen, Peninsula, Waterloo, Tel-el-Kebir, Egypt 1882, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, South Africa 1899–1900 The Great War: Mons, Le Cateau, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914, Messines 1914, Ypres 1914, Passchendaele 1917 '18, Somme 1916 '18, Arras 1917 '18, Hindenburg Line, France and Flanders 1914–18 The Second World War: Mont Pincon, Souleuvre, Noireau Crossing, Amiens 1944, Brussels, Neerpelt, Nederrijn, Nijmegen, Lingen, Bentheim, North-West Europe 1944-45, Baghdad 1941, Iraq 1941, Palmyra, Syria 1941, El Alamein, North Africa 1942–43, Arezzo, Advance to Florence, Gothic Line, Italy 1944 Wadi al Batin, Gulf 1991, Al Basrah, Iraq 2003. Afghanistan War Commanding Officers The Commanding Officers of the regiment have been: Lt Col Emerson M. Turnbull: November 1959–April 1962 Lt Col Julian P. Fane: April 1962–May 1964 Lt Col Sir James W. Scott: May 1964–October 1966 Lt Col Ian B. Baillie: October 1966–May 1969 Lt Col Henry Desmond A. Langley: May 1969–September 1971 Lt Col Simon E.M. Bradish-Ellammes: December 1971–December 1973 Lt Col Simon C. Cooper: December 1973–August 1976 Lt Col Andrew J. Hartigan: August 1976–October 1978 Lt Col Arthur B.S.H. Gooch: October 1978–February 1981 Lt Col James B. Emson: February 1981–July 1983 Lt Col Timothy J. Earl: July 1983–November 1985 Lt Col V.Anthony L. Goodhew: November 1985–June 1988 Lt Col James W.M. Ellery: June 1988–December 1990 Lt Col Anthony P. de Ritter: December 1990–October 1992 Colonels-in-Chief The Colonels-in-Chief of the regiment were: 21 May 1922 – 1 February 1936: Field Marshal King George V 1 February 1936 – 10 December 1936: Field Marshal King Edward VIII 10 December 1936 – 6 February 1952: Field Marshal King George VI 6 February 1952 – 8 September 2022: Queen Elizabeth II 8 September 2022 — present: Field Marshal King Charles III Regimental Colonels The Regimental Colonels were: 1922: Maj-Gen. Hon. Sir Cecil Edward Bingham (from 2nd Life Guards; Joint Colonel) 1922: F.M. Sir Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (from 1st Life Guards; Joint Colonel) 1936–1957: Maj-Gen. Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone 1957–1965: F.M. The Rt Hon Allan Francis John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton 1965–1979: Lt-Gen. The Rt Hon Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma 1979–1999: Maj-Gen. Lord Michael Fitzalan-Howard 1999–2019: F.M. The Rt Hon Charles Ronald Llewellyn Guthrie, Baron Guthrie 2019–present: Lt-Gen. Sir Edward