On 17 January 1885, the Household Cavalry lost one of its most legendary figures when Colonel Frederick Gustavus Burnaby was killed in action at the Battle of Abu Klea in present-day Sudan, fighting beside old comrades and dying as he had lived - with daring and courage. When General the Lord Wolseley was ordered to lead the Nile Expedition to...

John Edwards was born on the 4 October 1799 in Westminster, London and joined the 1st Life Guards (1st LG) in 1809 aged just 9 years old and under 4 feet tall....