FIRST LIFE GUARDS.
The Regiment was raised in Holland by King Charles II., and was at first composed of eighty gentlemen who had held commissions in the army of King Charles I.
It wore cuirasses from its formation to 1698, and resumed them in 1821.
It bears the Royal Arms as its crest.
It is said= the Regiments of Life Guards were at one time known as “the Cheeses,” from the old gentlemen of the Life Guards declining to serve in them as remodelled in 1788, saying they were no longer composed of gentlemen, but of cheesemongers.
The 3rd and 4th (Scots) Troops of Life Guards, disbanded in 1746, saw much service in the campaign of 1742–47, in Flanders.