Editing Coldstream Guards (section)

==Regiment ==
[[File:Section Second in Command.jpeg|thumb|right|Coldstream Guards on exercise in 2013.]]

=== Structure ===
The structure of the regiment and affiliated band includes:

* Regimental Headquarters, at [[Wellington Barracks|Wellington Barracks, London]]<ref>{{Cite web|date=20 December 2007|title=Coldstream Guards [UK]|url=http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/guards/f-2CG.htm|access-date=20 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071220012010/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/guards/f-2CG.htm|archive-date=20 December 2007}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Regimental Headquarters|url=https://coldstreamguards.org.uk/pages/rhq|access-date=20 July 2020|website=Coldstream Guards}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web|title=Number 7 Company|url=https://coldstreamguards.org.uk/pages/number-7-company|access-date=20 July 2020|website=Coldstream Guards}}</ref>
* 1st Battalion, at [[Victoria Barracks, Windsor]] (Light Infantry part of [[11th Infantry Brigade and Headquarters South East]])<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|title=Coldstream Guards|url=https://www.army.mod.uk/who-we-are/corps-regiments-and-units/infantry/coldstream-guards/|access-date=20 July 2020|website=www.army.mod.uk|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref name=":5">Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/rBXTJadHEmI Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20160620121450/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBXTJadHEmI&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{Cite web|date=17 June 2016|title=Trooping the Colour 2016|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBXTJadHEmI|access-date=19 July 2020|website=Youtube}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref name=":6">{{Cite web|title=1st Battalion|url=https://coldstreamguards.org.uk/pages/1st-battalion|access-date=20 July 2020|website=Coldstream Guards}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=Regular Army Basing Matrix by Formation and Unit|url=http://www.aff.org.uk/linkedfiles/aff/latest_news_information/cregulararmybasingannouncementgridunclas.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160814181412/http://www.aff.org.uk/linkedfiles/aff/latest_news_information/cregulararmybasingannouncementgridunclas.pdf|archive-date=14 August 2016|access-date=15 July 2020|website=Army Families Federation}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Order of Battle, Manpower, and Basing Locations|url=https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-11-22/194616|access-date=15 July 2020|website=parliament.uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=British Army units from 1945 on – Coldstream Guards|url=http://british-army-units1945on.co.uk/infantry/coldstream-guards.html|access-date=20 July 2020|website=british-army-units1945on.co.uk}}</ref>
** Battalion Headquarters<ref name=":6" />
** [[Headquarters Company (UK)|Headquarters Company]]<ref name=":6" />
** No. 1 Company (Senior Company)<ref name=":6" />
** No. 2 Company<ref name=":6" />
** No. 3 Company<ref name=":6" />
** Support (No. 4) Company (includes [[corps of drums|Corps of Drums]])<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":5" /><ref name=":6" />
* No. 7 Company, based at [[Wellington Barracks|Wellington Barracks, London]] (maintaining the traditions and [[Regimental Colours|colours]] of the old 2nd Battalion placed in suspended animation in 1993)<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":5" /><ref>{{Cite web|date=10 November 2014|title=Ceremonial duties – British Army Website|url=http://www.army.mod.uk/infantry/regiments/24427.aspx|access-date=20 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141110160221/http://www.army.mod.uk/infantry/regiments/24427.aspx|archive-date=10 November 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=7 January 2015|title=Coldstream Guards – British Army Website|url=http://www.army.mod.uk/infantry/regiments/23988.aspx|access-date=20 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150107060024/http://www.army.mod.uk/infantry/regiments/23988.aspx|archive-date=7 January 2015}}</ref>
* No. 17 Company, based at [[Hammersmith]] (the regiment's [[Army Reserve (United Kingdom)|reserve]] unit, administered as part of 1st Battalion, [[London Guards]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f8ef9d3373bfe707607fcfa/t/62250c3b19ebc628ec12dd84/1646595132676/20220301-LRA_AGM_28Feb22_Minutes-FINAL-v1.0.pdf|title=Minutes of an Annual General Meeting of the London Regiment Association held on Monday 28 February 2022 at 19.00 hours at Battalion Headquarters of the London Regiment, 27 St John's Hill, London SW11 1TT}}</ref>
* [[Band of the Coldstream Guards]], based at [[Wellington Barracks|Wellington Barracks, London]], part of the [[Royal Corps of Army Music]].<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4" /><ref name=":5" /><ref>{{Cite web|date=23 January 2015|title=Contact us – British Army Website|url=http://www.army.mod.uk/music/24524.aspx|access-date=20 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150123042347/http://www.army.mod.uk/music/24524.aspx|archive-date=23 January 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Coldstream Guards Band|url=https://coldstreamguards.org.uk/pages/coldstream-guards-band|access-date=20 July 2020|website=Coldstream Guards}}</ref>

Companies that make up the regiment are traditionally numbered. New officers destined for the regiment that are at [[Royal Military Academy Sandhurst|Sandhurst]] or at the [[Infantry Battle School]] form No. 13 Coy, while Guardsmen under training at [[Infantry Training Centre (British Army)|ITC Catterick]] make up No. 14 Coy.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.coldstreamguards-boro.org/page3htm.htm|title=Guards Infantry Training Battalion|access-date=26 April 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140426232859/http://www.coldstreamguards-boro.org/page3htm.htm|archive-date=26 April 2014}}</ref> No. 7 Coy is one of the [[British Army incremental infantry companies|incremental companies]] formed to undertake [[public duties]] in London and Windsor, and maintains the Colours and traditions of the former 2nd Battalion.<ref name=mod>{{cite web|url=http://www.army.mod.uk/infantry/regiments/23988.aspx|title=Coldstream Guards|publisher=Ministry of Defence|access-date=26 April 2014}}</ref>