Household Cavalry and Related Topics

Household Cavalry Regiment

Armoured Cavalry regiment of the British Army based in Bulford Camp in Wiltshire.

HCR soldiers move to their exfiltration HLS at the end of a search operation during their deployment to Helmand Province, Afghanistan in 2013 during Op Herrick 18.

Ajax PMRS Ares variant on display. This variant will replace the Household Cavalry Regiment's Spartan APCs.

It is the brother regiment of the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment (HCMR) based at Hyde Park Barracks in London - both regiments together form the Household Cavalry (HCav).

Life Guards (United Kingdom)

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The Life Guards (LG) is the senior regiment of the British Army and part of the Household Cavalry, along with the Blues and Royals.

Company B of the 113th Infantry, part of the American Expeditionary Force, France, 1919.

Company (military unit)

Military unit, typically consisting of 80–250 soldiers and usually commanded by a major or a captain.

Company B, 3rd Battalion, of the 75th Ranger Regiment in Somalia, 1993.

Company-sized organisations in units with a horse-mounted heritage, such as the Household Cavalry, Royal Armoured Corps, Royal Engineers, Royal Corps of Signals, Army Air Corps, Special Air Service, Honourable Artillery Company, Royal Army Medical Corps and Royal Logistic Corps, use the term squadron instead of company, and in the Royal Artillery they are called batteries.

Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment

Cavalry regiment of the British Army tasked primarily with ceremonial duties.

A sentry of the Life Guards outside Horse Guards Parade

The Queen’s escort for the State Opening of Parliament is generally provided by the HCMR.

Major Tim Cooper, Director of Music of The Blues and Royals conducting the Mounted Band of The Blues and Royals

The HCMR is one of two operational units that form the Household Cavalry (HCav), the other being the Household Cavalry Regiment (HCR), a formation reconnaissance regiment, with front-line combat duties.

Hyde Park Barracks, London

The Hyde Park Barracks are in Knightsbridge in central London, on the southern edge of Hyde Park.

Semi-panorama north-east towards Hyde Park and the barracks

The barracks are 3/4 mi from Buckingham Palace, enabling the officers and soldiers of the Household Cavalry to be available to respond speedily to any emergency at the Palace, practice drills at Horse Guards Parade or beyond and conduct other more ceremonial duties.

Household Division

Term used principally in the Commonwealth of Nations to describe a country's most elite or historically senior military units, or those military units that provide ceremonial or protective functions associated directly with the head of state.

Australia's Federation Guard is a ceremonial unit of the Australian Defence Force

The Governor General's Foot Guards is one of two infantry regiments in Canada's Household Division

The President's Bodyguard is the only Household Cavalry unit in India

Troopers of the Blues and Royals at Hyde Park in London

The Queen inspects the Foot Guards at the Trooping the Colour

Unlike the Foot Guards but more like the Household Cavalry, these two regiments recruit nationally with officers and other ranks coming from every corner of India regardless of caste, religion and language.

Trooping the Colour

Ceremony performed every year in London, United Kingdom, by regiments of the British Army.

Mounted band of the Household Cavalry at Trooping the Colour 2007. The rider of the piebald (black-and-white) drum horse, working the reins with his feet, crosses drumsticks above his head in salute.

The Queen with the Duke of Edinburgh at Trooping the Colour, June 2012.

A company of Welsh Guards, recognisable by the leeks on their collars and five-button groupings on their jackets, denoting their status as the most junior of the five Foot Guards regiments.

Musicians of the Foot Guards marching along the Mall, June 2012.

Colour marker point marching at end of parade.

Carriage carrying the Duchesses of Cornwall and Cambridge and Prince Harry, June 2013.

Elizabeth II riding to Trooping the Colour for the last time in 1986 on her horse Burmese. Since then, she has travelled in a carriage of the Royal Mews.

The Queen inspects the foot guards, the Royal Colonels following her. Foreground: backs of No. 6 Guard. Background: garden of 10 Downing Street and massed bands.

Massed bands of the foot guards, 16 June 2007

In the centre, holding his sword and the Colour, the Regimental Sgt-Major of No. 1 Guard. Behind him, wearing a white flag belt, the Ensign waits to receive the Colour, standing in front of No. 1 Guard. To the right, the Massed Bands.

From front to back: Guards Nos. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 in ranks of two. Background at left: massed bands.

Footguards march past in Slow Time at the Colonel's Review in 2008

Blues and Royals, one of the two regiments of the Household Cavalry, in their characteristic red plumes and dark blue uniforms.

Members of King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery, returning along the Mall.

Balcony appearance by the Royal Family following the 2012 Trooping the Colour.

Red Arrows flypast after the ceremony, 15 June 2013

The RMC Duntroon Trooping the Colour ceremony, 6 June 2015, at Anzac Parade. Present include the Governor-General of Australia, the Chief of the Defence Force, the Chief of Army, the Chief of Navy, and the Commandant, RMC.

Trooping the Colour in Al-Rayah Square, Jordan 2016

During the ceremony, the Queen travels down the Mall from Buckingham Palace to Horse Guards Parade in a royal procession with a sovereign's escort of Household Cavalry (mounted troops or horse guards).