The regiment's continued existence was threatened briefly when Winston Churchill, who served as Secretary of State for War between 1919 and 1921, sought the elimination of the Irish Guards and Welsh Guards as an economy measure.

A member of the regiment would later recall that for the two battalions that returned to Australia ' the first eighteen months of the regiment's existence were harrowing times ...

As amalgamation drew ever nearer, on 19 March at a farewell dinner at Dunster Castle in Somerset, the regiment farewelled its Colonel-in-Chief after HM King Harald V chose to end his role with the end of the regiment's independent existence, while on 28 March, the 1st Battalion held their final parade on British soil.

During its existence, the deployments of the regiment's battalions were primarily to Northern Ireland ( NI ), especially during the more turbulent times of the 1970s and 1980s, attempting to keep the peace between the opposing Catholic and Protestant factions, and taking part in anti-terrorist operations against the numerous paramilitary organisations: the regiment lost nine men during its many tours of NI ; however, its battalions did deploy to many overseas postings during the regiment's existence, including many deployments to West Germany as part of the British Army of the Rhine ( BAOR ).

In 1966 the regiment's short existence came to an end when it, along with the three other remaining regiments of the Home Counties Brigade, was amalgamated to form The Queen's Regiment, one of the new ' large ' regiments that were formed in the 1960s.

By the end of the 1950s the role of officer training became the focus of the regiment's existence.

These were put off, although the regiment's existence continued to be tenuous as it was only able to graduate three officers in 1975 and two more the following year.

The regiment's nickname, the " Cherry Pickers ", came from an incident during the Peninsular War, in which the 11th Light Dragoons ( as the regiment was then named ) were attacked while raiding an orchard at San Martin de Trebejo in Spain.

The regiment's first Victoria Cross came two years later in July 1917 awarded to Sergeant Robert Bye.

The regiment's next action came a month later, in September at the Battle of Harlem Heights.

In 1877, Her Majesty Queen Victoria, changed the regiment's name to the now more familiar Scots Guards In 1881, the 1st Battalion deployed to Dublin, Ireland and the following year the battalion, as part of the Guard Brigade, took part in an expedition to Egypt, which came about in response to a revolt led by Urabi Pasha, an Egyptian military officer.

Elsewhere in 1964 the regiment's alliance with the Canadian Winnipeg Grenadiers came to an end, ending an alliance that had existed since 1933.

The regiment's name came from the dark tartan that they wore and from its role to " watch " the Highlands.

The regiment's greatest loss of life came on 20 July 1982 when seven RGJ bandsmen were killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb which exploded during a public concert featuring the music from Oliver!

This came about soon after the regiment's formation, when a competition was held to design an appropriate badge.

The regiment's grimmest hour came during the Pakistani invasion of Kashmir in 1947.

The regiment's first major action came during the Second Afghan War, although in this time it also served on the North-West Frontier and during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900.

The regiment's first Victoria Cross came during operations in Somalia during the Third Somaliland Campaign in 1903, when then Captain William George Walker risked his life in an attempt to save the life of another officer who had been wounded during earlier fighting.

The regiment's most notable service came in the New Mexico Campaign in the spring of 1862, in which they helped repulse the advance of the Army of New Mexico under Henry Hopkins Sibley at the battles of Glorieta Pass and Peralta.

The regiment's first overseas service came during the Second Opium War against China.

He was discharged in August, at the end of the regiment's 3 month enlistment.

In the end the hotel was captured and in it were found a dead Soviet regimental commander and all the regiment's papers.

The 33rd was involved in heavy fighting during the Battle of Waterloo and at the end of the battle the regiment's casualties numbered 11 officers and 128 men killed or wounded.

It also notes how news of the regiment's courage spurred the recruitment of numerous black volunteers, and by the end of the war, there were more than 180, 000 African American men in uniform ; a fact which President Lincoln considered instrumental in securing a victory for the Union.

The regiment was intended to be nonpartisan, and it began with Catholic recruits accounting for 18 % of membership, however due to various circumstances by the end of 1972 the Catholic membership made up around 3 % of the regiment's soldiers.

Though most of the skirmishes were small, by the end of the period injuries and desertion had cut the regiment's strength by 25 %.

Normally, the regiment's training starts at the beginning of May, in preparation for the Atholl Gathering at the end of the month ; however, if new recruits join, they must gain a standard of foot and arms drill before being permitted to parade with the rest of the regiment, which they practice between January and March.

Following the restructuring of the infantry and the end of the arms plot, the new regiment's five regular battalions will have fixed roles:

The regiment's first airborne action was towards the end of the Second World War, when a reinforced Gurkha Parachute Bn was parachuted into Burma at Elephant Point on May 1, 1945, as part of Operation Dracula.

The end of the national service scheme in 1972 resulted in a sharp decline in the regiment's strength ; 92 personnel remained at the end of the year.

The exception was when, in March 1775, a British regiment inflicted the same treatment on Thomas Ditson, a Billerica, Massachusetts man who attempted to buy a musket from one of the regiment's soldiers.

In 1806, when he was the regiment's Sergeant-Major, his commanding officer, Isaac Brock, made him an officer.

The regiment's first engagement occurred in July, when it captured an outpost situated in gardens outside Delhi.

The actions of the regiment during the initial landing also gained the division its second Medal of Honor, when Private George J. Peters posthumously received the award after charging a German machine gun nest and eliminating it with rifle fire and grenades, allowing his fellow paratroopers to gather their equipment and capture the regiment's first objective.

The regiment's name changed according to the name of the colonel commanding until 1751, when it became the 20th Regiment of Foot.

The regiment is responsible for the defence of Blair Castle, the surrounding estate and its inhabitants, but in practice usually only parades twice a year at the regiment's annual inspection when the present Duke comes from his home in South Africa to inspect his men, and the Atholl Gathering Highland Games, which is hosted by the Duke, on the last weekend in May.

He had two horses killed under him, and had lost two fingers from his left hand, but when the regiment's standard was captured he galloped into the thickest of fighting and recovered it, receiving eight cuts in his face, head, and neck, as well as two bullets in his back and a cut across his forehead that went down to his right eyebrow.

* The Thin Red Line ( 1908 )-named after his regiment's nickname, acquired in the Crimean War, when " the thin red streak tipped with a line of steel " of the 93rd Highlanders ( Argylls ) held back the Russian advance.

In 1826, Lord Bingham ( later the 3rd Earl of Lucan ) became the regiment's commanding officer when he bought its lieutenant-colonelcy for the reputed sum of £ 25, 000 pounds.

The regiment returned to Sweden to replenish shortly after and remained at home until 1638, when one of the regiment's two battalions was sent as garrison to Stettin.

The regiment's formation was announced on 16 December 2004 by Geoff Hoon and General Sir Mike Jackson as part of the restructuring of the infantry, when it was initially to be known as the King's, Lancashire and Border Regiment.

The regiment's origins lie in the 18th century when the East India Company ( HEIC ) recruited Rajputs to protect its operations.

The regiment's first Guidon was presented in 1972, when ' A ' Sqn, 3 Cav Regt was transferred to 2 Cav Regt.

In addition, the new regiment's " Double Past " march ( the music used when marching past at the double ) is an amalgam of the Light Infantry's ( Keel Row ) and the Royal Green Jackets ' ( Road to the Isles ).

In 1950, when India became a republic, the regiment's name was changed to the 4th Gorkha Rifles as it was decided to adopt the Indian spelling.

The second battalion occurred in February 1943 when the regiment's strength reached 700 men.

Battle honours are usually presented in the form of a name of a country, region, or city where the regiment's distinguished act took place, usually together with the year when it occurred.

In 1992, the regiment's role became solely focused upon officer training when it became part of the 1st Officer Training Unit ( OCTU ).