Do you have ancestors who served in the Grenadier Guards? Search this collection of records to find out their rank in the most senior regiment of the Guards Division, the Grenadier Guards were an elite infantry regiment of the British Army.
Do you have ancestors who served in the Grenadier Guards? Search this collection of records to find out their rank in the most senior regiment of the Guards Division, the Grenadier Guards were an elite infantry regiment of the British Army.
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Lieutenant
Captain-Lieutenant
Captain
Ensign & Lieutenant
Brevet
Captain & Lt Colonel
The most senior regiment of the Guards Division, the Grenadier Guards were an elite infantry regiment of the British Army.
1656 marks the origin of the Grenadier Guards, formed in Bruges as Lord Wentworth's Regiment - part of the exiled King Charles II's bodyguard. They gained the name 'Grenadier' in 1815 by Royal Proclamation, following the end of the Napoleonic Wars.