Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer was the regiment's first permanent commander and, like such generals as George S. Patton and Terry De La Mesa Allen in their rise to military prominence, Custer was a believer in blood and guts warfare.

During the regiment's first battle, Confederate soldiers charge, but are repelled.

At first, the French had some success, wiping out two companies of the 79th Highland Regiment and killing the regiment's commander, Lieut-Colonel Philips Cameron.

Next he took command of his regiment's first battalion and spent three years on the North-West Frontier.

In 1941, during the East African Campaign, Sergeant Nigel Gray Leakey of the 1 / 6th Battalion was awarded the regiment's first and only Victoria Cross ( VC ).

In this case, the regiment's commander had not gone in the first wave and so was able to make the decision to cancel.

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

The first Duke of Wellington died in 1852 and in the following year Queen Victoria, in recognition of the regiment's long ties to him, ordered that the regiment's title be changed to the 33rd ( or The Duke of Wellington's ) Regiment.

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

The Boer War provided the first opportunity for the regiment's volunteer battalions to serve overseas with regular forces, supplying individual detachments and service companies.

Lance-Corporal Tombs became the regiment's first Victoria Cross recipient of the war for assisting wounded soldiers during the battle.

Ten of the regiment's battalions were active in the first stage, the Battle of Pilkem Ridge ( 31 July – 2 August ).

In Fredericia, the Danish 8th Brigade's 20th Regiment was involved in a bigger skirmish: the regiment's first Company were captured near Snoghøj, on the mainland near where the ( old ) Lillebælt bridge is now.

Both battalions saw active service in the Crimean War, with the 1st fighting at the battles of Alma and Inkerman ( 1854 ), and both fighting in the Siege of Sevastopol ( 1854-5 ), where the regiment's first VC was won.

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.

On the regiment's first battlefield on Blackshard, Hlaine Larkin coins the nickname " Gaunt's Ghosts ".

On 20 October 1871, the first regular Canadian army units were created, in the form of two batteries of garrison artillery ; thus, that date is considered the regiment's birthday.

Jim Day, a reporter with the Pembroke Observer local newspaper from the regiment's hometown, was on the base at the time and was the first to report that Canadian soldiers were being held pending an investigation into the death of a Somali citizen.

Also in 1952, Queen Elizabeth succeeded to the throne, and became the regiment's fifth Colonel-in-Chief since the first, King Edward VII, in 1901.

The regiment's first guidon ( the oldest in Canada ) was presented in 1828 by the Earl of Dalhousie and currently resides in the RCH armoury.

The South African War of 1899-1902 saw the 6th and 17th Hussars dispatch volunteer cadres which formed the 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles, subsequently winning the regiment's first battle honour.

Although the regiment's first battle honour is for the Battle of Blenheim, it did not take a notable part in any major battle of the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars, but did serve in the Crimean War.

The regiment's first stand of colours was presented by Lady Glenlyon on behalf of the Queen in 1845.

As a result of the regiment's initial service during the Iraq war, the Royal Yeomanry was in 2005 awarded the theatre honour " Iraq 2003 ", the first battle honour the regiment has won since its formation, and the first-so far the only-battle honour awarded to a Territorial Army regiment since the Second World War.

On September 9 he was made the regiment's major, and on October 8 he became its lieutenant colonel.

The next action of the regiment was in 1741 during the Hats ' Russian War and the Battle of Villmanstrand, the last of the regiment's major battles.

The regiment's first major action was during the Second Afghan War, where they were awarded their first battle honour at Peiwar Kotal and Captain John Cook was awarded the Victoria Cross.

This was the regiment's last major activity in Ireland, and they were ordered to prepare for foreign service in December.

He failed to see any action during his time in India, missing out on his regiment's turn at the frontier, as he was in England on sick leave for a hernia operation.

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

After two months of constant patrolling by both battalions, 6 RAR was engaged in the action that would become a defining part of the regiment's war in Vietnam ; the Battle of Long Tan.

He enlisted in April 1940 joining the Monmouths and seeing action from his regiment's landing at D-Day in June 1944 through the advance into north west Europe.

The regiment's first significant action was the Second Battle of Bull Run, where he demonstrated that he was a tenacious fighter.

The badge was invariably set upon a piece of red material known as the Brandywine Flash ( commemorating the regiment's action at the battle of Brandywine Creek in 1777, during the American War of Independence ).

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.

Notable events included a Victoria Cross for Captain Francis Octavius Grenfell for his actions in saving the guns of 119th Battery, Royal Field Artillery on 24 August 1914 ( he was later killed in action on 24 May 1915, as was his twin brother, Riversdale, a yeomanry officer who attached to 9th Lancers ), and the regiment's participation in the final " lance on lance " action of the First World War on 7 September 1914 at Moncel in which Lieutenant Colonel David Campbell led a charge of two troops of B Squadron and overthrew a squadron of the 1st Guard Dragoons.

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.

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!

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.

The regiment's brief existence came to an end when it amalgamated with three other battalions of the East Anglian Brigade on 1 September 1964, to form the ' large ' Royal Anglian Regiment.

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 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.