Peninsula War 1808 - 1814

Military General Service Medal.  1793 - 1814 clasps:

* The regiment's surgeon M.L. Este, did receive a three clasp medal with "Egypt", but this earlier clasp was for service with the 3rd Foot Guards.

Battle Honour: Peninsula.

Battle of Waterloo 1815

Waterloo Medal 1815

Casualties 16th, 17th & 18th June 1815 (extracted London Gazette 8/7/1815 & "Medals of the British Army: And how they were won" T. Carter 1861*)

Officers:1 Major and 1 Captain killed, 2 Captains and 2 Cornets wounded.

*Sergeants, Trumpeters, Drummers, Farriers and Rank and File:

Horses: 48 killed, 21 wounded, 25 missing.

*Carter's figures are in turn  extracted from the return prepared by the Adjutant-Generals office, 13th April 1816.

Battle Honour;  Waterloo.

Egypt Campaign 1882  (as part of the Household Cavalry Regiment with the 2nd Life Guards and the Royal Horse Guards)

Egypt and Sudan Medal 1882-89

11 dead on the roll.   

* final number may be reduced by the second campaign below.

Recipients also entitled to a Khedive's Star dated 1882

Battle Honours: Tel-el-Kebir, Egypt 1882

The Nile Expedition 1884-5   47 served in the Heavy Camel Regiment.

Egypt and Sudan Medal 1882-89

705 Tpr. W. Nicholson was killed at Abu Klea (Nicholson is also on the earlier campaign roll - see above) and 1019 Tpr. F. Woodhouse was wounded Abu Klea and died of wounds 19/1/1885.

Recipients who had not served in the earlier 1882 campaign would also be entitled to a Khedive's Star dated 1884-6

South African War 1899 - 1902 or "Boer War"  (Main Body, Dec 1899 -November 1900 as part of the Household Cavalry Regiment with the 2nd Life Guards and the Royal Horse Guards)

Queen's South Africa Medal 1899-1902.

*SA01/02 numbers only relate to the Queen's South Africa Medal.

**A small number of men listed with other units but with some service of unknown duration with the 1st Life Guards have been omitted.

several  King's South Africa Medals  are recorded

Battle Honours:  Relief of Kimberley; Paardeburg; South Africa 1899-1900.

The Great War 1914 - 1918.  Served France and Flanders

One squadron of the Regiment arrived  France 16th August 1914 as a component of  the Household Cavalry Composite Regiment, with one squadron each from the 2nd Life Guards and Royal Horse Guards. This configuration was broken up 11th November 1914 and the advance squadron reunited with the remainder of the regiment which had arrived in theatre 7th November 1914.  On the 10th March 1918 the regiment was converted to No.1, (1st Life Guards) Battalion, Guards Machine Gun Regiment. The regiment returned to its normal cavalry designation in 1919.

Men landed France and Flanders prior to 1/1/1916 entitled to a 1914 or 1914-15 Star as appropriate. Also the British War Medal & Victory Medal

Battle Honours: Mons; Le Cateau; Marne 1914; Aisne 1914; Messines 1914; Ypres 1914, 1915, 1917; Somme 1916, 1918; Arras 1917, 1918; Hindenburg Line; France and Flanders 1914-18. Retreat from Mons; Armentières 1914; Langemarck 1914; Gheluvelt; Nonne Bosschen; St Julien; Frezenberg; Albert 1916; Scarpe 1917, 1918; Broodseinde; Poelcapelle; Passchendaele; Bapaume 1918; Epéhy; St Quentin Canal; Beaurevoir; Cambrai 1918; Selle.