1900---- Irish Guards

Battle Honours WW1 (3 Battalions)

Mons, Marne, Aisne, Ypres, Langemarck, Gheluvelt, Onne Bosschen, Festubert, Loos, Somme, Flers Courcelette, Morval, Pilckem, Poelcappelle, Passchendale, Cambrai, St Quentin, Lys, Hazebrouck, Albert, Bapaume, Arras, Scarpe, Drocourt Queant, Hindenberg Line, Canal du Nord, Selle, Sambre, France & Flanders.

Battle Honours WW2

Pethus, Norway, Boulogne, Cagny, Mont Pincon, Neerpelt, Nijmegen, Aam, Rhineland, Hochwald, Rhine, Bentheim, North West Europe, Medjez Plain, Djebel Bou Aoukaz, North Africa, Anzio, Aprilia, Carroceto, Italy.

Al Basrah, Iraq 2003

 

Guards Museum, London (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)

Deployment

1st Battalion

1900.04.01 1st Battalion, Irish Guards
raised in London
1900.04 London: Tower
1902 England: Aldershot
1904 London: Chelsea
1906 London: Wellington Barracks
1908 England: Windsor
1910 London: Chelsea
1912 London: Tower
1914 London: Wellington Barracks 4 Bde
1914.08 France and Flanders 2 Div
1915.08 France and Flanders Gds Div
1919 London: Chelsea
1921 England: Windsor
1923 Gibraltar
1925 London: Chelsea
1926 England: Aldershot 1 Bde
1928 London
1929 Aldershot
1931 Windsor 4 Bde
1932 England: Aldershot
1933 London: Chelsea
1935 London: Wellington Barracks 4 Bde
1936 Egypt
1938? Palestine
1939 London
1939.09 UK 24 Gds Bde
1940.04.07 at sea
1940.04.15 Norway 24 Gds Bde, Rupertforce
1940.06.06 at sea
1940.06.11 UK
1943.02 North Africa : Tunisia 24 Gds Bde, 1 Inf Div
1943.12 Italy
1944.04 UK 201 Gds Bde
1945 UK
1948 Palestine 1 Gds Bde
1948 Libya
1949 London
1951 Germany: Hubblerath 4 Gds Bde
1954.02 Egypt
1956 England: Shorncliffe
1958.06 Cyprus
1958.10 England: Shorncliffe
195? England: Lydd? 1 Gds Bde or 39 Inf Bde
1961 Germany: Hubblerath 4 Gds Bde
1964.07 London
1966.10 Aden 24 Inf Bde
1967.08 London
1970.11 Hong Kong
1972.11 London
1975.01 Germany: Münster 4 Armd Bde
1977.01 Germany: Münster 2 Armd Div
1978.08 London
1981.08 Germany: Münster 2 Armd Div
1982.01 Germany: Münster 4 Armd Bde
1986.01 London
1989.12 Berlin Berlin Bde
1992.04 London
1992.11 (Northern Ireland)
1993.04 London
1998.01 Germany: Münster 4 Armd Bde
1999.02 Macedonia
1999.06.12 (Kosovo)
1999.09 Germany: Münster 4 Armd Bde
2003.02 Persian Gulf 7 Armd Bde
2003.03 Iraq (det) 7 Armd Bde
2003.06 Germany?
2003 London (Wellington Barracks)
2003.12 (Northern Ireland)
2004.06? London (Wellington Barracks)