query: military_branch arthur frederick crane nicholls
supports: Brigadier Arthur Frederick Crane Nicholls GC , ERD ( 6 February 1911 -- 1944 ) was awarded the George Cross for gallantry and leadership on active service with the Special Operations Executive in Albania in 1944 . He is the only member of the Coldstream Guards to have been awarded with the medal . In some militaries, foot guards are senior infantry regiments. Coldstream is a town and civil parish in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. It lies on the north bank of the River Tweed in Berwickshire, while Northumberland in England lies to the south bank, with Cornhill-on-Tweed the nearest village. A former burgh, Coldstream is the home of the Coldstream Guards, a regiment in the British Army, and is the location where Edward I of England invaded Scotland in 1296. At the 2001 census, the town had a population of 1,813, which was estimated to have risen to 2,050 by 2006. The parish, in 2001, had a population of 2,186. The Guards Division is an administrative unit of the British Army responsible for the administration of the regiments of Foot Guards and the London Regiment. The Guards Division is responsible for providing two public duties battalions to London District (plus three incremental companies); although the guards are most associated with ceremonial, they are nevertheless operational infantry battalions, and as such perform all the various roles of infantry. The Coldstream Guards (COLDM GDS) is a part of the Guards Division, Foot Guards regiments of the British Army. The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom. The force was initially administered by the War Office from London, which in 1964 was subsumed into the Ministry of Defence. The professional head of the British Army is the Chief of the General Staff.
candidates: british army coldstream guards infantry regiment
answer: british army