Talk:Scots Guards

message: Is it strictly necessary that the history of the Guards be split into five different pages (including this one)? If no one objects, I'd prefer to merge them all into a single History of the Scots Guards page, with a short summary on this page. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 19:03, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Historical content split into multiple pages 

message: 'No one assails me with impunity'. A better translation of the motto is 'No one touches me with impunity'. The Latin dictionary says that lacessere means to assault or assail; but the motto of the Regiment is the motto of the Most Noble Order of the Thistle, whose star the Regiment wears. You cannot touch a thistle without being pricked. It implies the aggression of the Scots Guards in that you cannot touch, provoke or upset a Scotsman without punishment. 'Assails' is a rarely used word, and does not have the connection with the prickles of a thistle.
Another meaning of 'touches' is 'borrows': "Can I touch you for a fiver?" Heraldry is replete with puns, and this could be one. Scotsmen are supposedly known for their care with money, and so the motto 'No one touches me (ie borrows from me) with impunity' has another abstruse meaning.
I will change the translation of the motto unless anyone has strong objections.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ballenstedter (talk • contribs) 00:39, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Motto

message: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/756501/04550.pdf
Sammartinlai (talk) 12:46, 22 November 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Under the Army 2020 Refine plan, 1st Battalion the Scots Guards will not rotate between State Ceremonial and Public Duties as is the case with other Foot Guards regiments. Instead, it will be based at Catterick and operate as a mechanised infantry regiment using the Boxer and form up as a Strike Brigade.
Placing it here cause it is future. Sammartinlai (talk) 08:27, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Under A 2020 Refine  

message: * 1st Battalion
** IV (Headquarters) Company
***Signals Platoon
***Mechanical Motor Transport Platoon
***Quartermaster's Department
***Other Departments
** I (Right Flank) Company
** II B (Support) Company
***Reconnaissance Platoon
***Mortar Platoon
***Machine Gun Platoon
***Anti-Tank Platoon
** III (C) Company
** VIII (Left Flank) Company
Not needed 
Sammartinlai (talk) 14:20, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Structure 

message: The accounts of the regiment's history in the two world wars seems to indicate that there were only two battalions deployed throughout. Is this correct? Valetude (talk) 13:59, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: No, the 'peacetime' strength was the RHQ, Band, Depot Company, and 2 x battalions.  A 3rd battalion existed at three times: 1st time during the expansion of the army in the late 19th century (1899-1906), then as a reserve battalion for public duties and defence of London (1914-1919), and a third time during the Second World War (1940-1946).  A 4th battalion also existed during that war (1940-1943), and a Hold Battalion, which was an expansion of the Depot and RHQ (1940-1943). J-Man11 (talk) 23:14, 28 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Only 2 battalions? 

message: Hi - While not wanting to whitewash the involvement of the Scots Guards in the Batang Kali massacre, the content relating to the massacre is now twice the length of the two world wars added together. This is classic case of WP:UNDUE. The normal process in such circumstances is to create a fork i.e. create a new article on the topic (this has already been done: there is an article on the massacre), to move the details to the new article and just to include a summary in the main article. Dormskirk (talk) 09:00, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree: This is a 42Kb general article on a regiment with a 300 year history. It doesn’t need a 4.9 Kb account of a single incident which is already covered in its own article, the linked Regimental History article, and the Malayan Emergency page. So I have trimmed it to a one-sentence summary and link (matching similar treatments on similar incidents on similar unit history pages. I trust everyone is OK with that.  Xyl 54 (talk) 22:59, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Batang Kali massacre 

message: An editor keeps removing properly sourced material about the murder of Peter McBride. Two members of the regiment were convicted. If there is an issue with this, it should be debated here rather than by deleting the material. See the discussion above for further detail. Dormskirk (talk) 12:02, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Murder of Peter McBride