military_branch arthur frederick crane nicholls
In some militaries , foot guards are senior ___MASK95___ regiments . The Guards Division is an administrative unit of the ___MASK63___ responsible for the administration of the regiments of Foot Guards and the London ___MASK8___ . The Guards Division is responsible for providing two public duties battalions to London District ( plus three incremental companies ); although the guards are most associated with ceremonial , they are nevertheless operational infantry battalions , and as such perform all the various roles of infantry . Brigadier Arthur Frederick Crane Nicholls GC , ERD ( 6 February 1911 -- 1944 ) was awarded the George Cross for gallantry and leadership on active service with the Special Operations Executive in Albania in 1944 . He is the only member of the ___MASK56___ to have been awarded with the medal . Coldstream is a town and civil parish in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland . It lies on the north bank of the River Tweed in Berwickshire , while Northumberland in England lies to the south bank , with Cornhill - on - Tweed the nearest village . A former burgh , Coldstream is the home of the ___MASK56___ , a ___MASK8___ in the ___MASK63___ , and is the location where Edward I of England invaded Scotland in 1296 . At the 2001 census , the town had a population of 1 , 813 , which was estimated to have risen to 2 , 050 by 2006 . The parish , in 2001 , had a population of 2 , 186 . The ___MASK63___ is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom . The force was initially administered by the War Office from London , which in 1964 was subsumed into the Ministry of Defence . The professional head of the ___MASK63___ is the Chief of the General Staff . The ___MASK56___ ( COLDM GDS ) is a part of the Guards Division , Foot Guards regiments of the ___MASK63___ .