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This is from a History of the Scots Guards/Scots Fuslier Guards
Canada and Egypt
The 2nd Battalion formed part of a force sent 1861 to Canada to reinforce the frontier during the American Civil War. Its three year visit was spent mainly in garrison duty in Montreal.
Queen Victoria restored to the Regiment its 1877 previous title of Scots Guards.
The 1st Battalion took part in the expedition 1882 to Egypt under Sir Garnet Wolseley to suppress the revolt of Arabi Pasha, gaining for the regiment the battle honours “Tel-el-Kebir” and “Egypt 1882.” In this campaign the Regiment wore scarlet in battle and carried Colours to the seat of the war for the last time.
The Regiment was represented in the expedition for the relief of General Gordon in Khartoum by two companies in the Guards Camel Regiment, which fought most gallantly at Abu Klea, Gubat and Metemneh. At the former battle in January, 1885, the main charge of the Dervishes broke one face of the British square, but the Guards on the further side “faced about, stood like rocks and allowed nothing to pass”.
In the same year the 2nd Battalion was sent with the expedition to Suakin, where it saw little fighting but gained a further battle honour before returning home, via Cyprus, in less than nine months.
You should be able to get more information from the National Archive Catalogue (PROCAT)
http://www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/Default.asp.
Alan
