London Guards Regiment SNCO Badge

[Toby Purcell]

Originally Posted by Alan O

I can only assume as the junior regiment they were bottom of the list and there were not enough companies for a 5th.

Yes that’s correct. There were four rifle companies and the change had to be relatively cost neutral so there was no question of raising a fifth company. To give a rather false sense of logic the London Irish company became Irish Guards and the London Scottish company Scots Guards. Laughable were it not such a travesty.