Browse a wide selection of materials from the archives of the Coldstream Guards, covering the period from the Napoleonic era through to World War 2 and beyond.
Browse a wide selection of materials from the archives of the Coldstream Guards, covering the period from the Napoleonic era through to World War 2 and beyond.
Use this browse experience to search for specific volumes of interest relating to the Coldstream Guards. Every kind of material of value to a military historian or genealogist has been digitised and is published here – registers of attestation and enlistment, transfer and discharge, officers’ records, casualty records, decorations and awards. In addition, there is a lovely series of albums and informal scrapbooks containing illustrations, photographs, newspaper clippings and so on, which give a wonderful sense of the Guards on and off duty, and the sheer breadth of their engagements and postings at home and abroad.
The Document Type dropdown gives the various general types of register or record that may be selected. The Volume dropdown gives more specific titles where they are available. Note that you may see no results, or fewer results, if you select a mismatch of Document Type and Volume. If you are not certain what to look for, you can simply click on the blue Search button and will be shown a list of results, one per volume that has been published. You can then scroll through the list of available Volumes and click through to any of interest to you. The image count indicates how many images are in the volume, so you know in advance what you are letting yourself in for! You will be taken to the first image of the register, from where you can page back and forth through the volume, as if you had selected the paper original from the shelf in the Guards’ archive.
Note that if you wish to search for a specific man, please use instead the search experience – see the first link in the Useful Links & Resources side-bar to the right-hand side of this page.
All the records in this collection have been licensed from and are published courtesy of the Trustees of the Coldstream Guards Charitable Fund and are housed in the Coldstream Guards archive at Wellington Barracks in London. We thank the Coldstream Guards for their enthusiastic participation and unflagging willingness to help and advise every step of the way – they really are Second to None.