The Royal Dragoons (1st Dragoons) was a heavy cavalry regiment of the British Army. The regiment was formed in 1661 as the Tangier Horse. It served for...
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The Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons) (RHG/D) is a cavalry regiment of the British Army, part of the Household Cavalry. The Colonel...
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of Scots Dragoons were raised. In 1681, these troops were regimented to form The Royal Regiment of Scots Dragoons, numbered the 4th Dragoons in 1694....
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Canadian Dragoons Redesignated 16 October 1946 as the 1st Armoured Regiment (Royal Canadian Dragoons), RCAC Redesignated 2 March 1949 as the Royal Canadian...
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Army: The Royal Canadian Dragoons and two reserve regiments, the British Columbia Dragoons and the Saskatchewan Dragoons. The Royal Canadian Dragoons is...
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The 1st King's Dragoon Guards was a cavalry regiment in the British Army. The regiment was raised by Sir John Lanier in 1685 as the 2nd Queen's Regiment...
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1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards (QDG) is a regiment in the Royal Armoured Corps (RAC) of the British Army. Nicknamed The Welsh Cavalry, the regiment recruits...
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ordered that the 5th Royal Irish Light Dragoons should be erased from the records of the army list, in which a blank between the 4th and 6th Dragoons should...
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Alfred Wintle (category 1st The Royal Dragoons officers)
was a British military officer in the 1st The Royal Dragoons who served in the First and Second World Wars. He was the first non-lawyer to achieve a unanimous...
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Wales's) and 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)), and The Royal Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons). Soon after, the regiment deployed on four tours of Northern Ireland...
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Prince Francis of Teck (category 1st The Royal Dragoons officers)
Dragoons 1891.08.26 Lieutenant, 1st Royal Dragoons 1894.07.25 Captain, 1st Royal Dragoons 1896.11.25 Aide de Camp to the General Officer Commanding, Quetta...
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the 1750s that the British converted some dragoon regiments into light cavalry, these regiments being officially designated 'Light Dragoons'. All British...
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Army, and part of the Household Cavalry. In 1969, it was amalgamated with the 1st The Royal Dragoons to form the Blues and Royals. Raised in August 1650...
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(Westminster Dragoons)". Orders of Battle.com. HQ (Westminster Dragoons) Squadron Royal Yeomanry official website The Westminster Dragoons' unofficial...
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John Dunville (category 1st The Royal Dragoons officers)
the army instead. He was aged 21 and a second lieutenant in the 1st (Royal) Dragoons, British Army during the First World War when he was awarded the...
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twelve regiments, the 1st to 7th Dragoon Guards and the 1st to 6th Dragoons—the missing regiment was the 5th Dragoons, disbanded for mutiny in 1799 without...
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Victor Duleep Singh (category 1st The Royal Dragoons officers)
commissioned as Lieutenant into the 1st (Royal) Dragoons. In 1889 Singh was stationed at Halifax, Nova Scotia, as a member of the staff of General Sir John Ross...
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The Royal Dragoon Guards (RDG) is a cavalry regiment of the British Army. It was formed in 1992 by the amalgamation of two other regiments: The 4th/7th...
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created Baron Cobham in October 1714. He became colonel of The Royal Regiment of Dragoons in 1715 and Constable of Windsor Castle in 1716. He was made...
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List of British Regular Army regiments (1962) (category Regiments of the British Army)
4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards 1st The Royal Dragoons The Royal Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons) The Queen's Own Hussars The Queen's...
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The 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards was a cavalry regiment in the British Army, first raised in 1685 as the Earl of Arran's Regiment of Cuirassiers. It...
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Cyril O'Callaghan (category 1st The Royal Dragoons officers)
during the 1911 Five Nations. O'Callaghan served as an officer with the 1st The Royal Dragoons and was awarded a Military Cross in 1916. During the 1920s...
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Julian Grenfell (category 1st The Royal Dragoons officers)
in the British Army in 1907 and eventually attached to the 1st (Royal) Dragoons in 1910. He was initially sent out to India, where he enjoyed the big...
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Churchill of Eyemouth in the peerage of Scotland and the following year, colonel of the King's Own Royal Regiment of Dragoons. These rewards allowed him...
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George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke (category 1st The Royal Dragoons officers)
the 75th Regiment of Foot in 1778, before transferring to 1st The Royal Dragoons later that year. In 1781, he transferred to the 22nd Light Dragoons and...
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Thomas Garth (British Army officer) (category 1st The Royal Dragoons officers)
Chief Justice of the King's Bench. He entered the army as a cornet in the 1st Dragoons in 1762. He saw action in Germany in 1762 during the Seven Years' War...
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Maidstone, closed 1940 1940 1st The Royal Dragoons 1941 Royal Scots Greys 1940 22nd Dragoons 23rd Hussars 24th Lancers 1941 25th Dragoons 26th Hussars 27th Lancers...
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Granville Elliott (category 1st The Royal Dragoons officers)
Elliott was promoted to the rank of colonel, taking over the colonelcy of the Carabinier Regiment on 1 February 1737, and the Dragoons Regiment on 10 July...
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designated Dragoon Guards, two as Hussars, one as Lancers and one as Dragoons. The remaining regiment is the Royal Tank Regiment. In the regular army...
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1760–1787: Gen. John Severne 8th (The King's Royal Irish) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons - (1777) 1787–1789: Gen. Charles Grey, 1st Earl Grey, KB 1789–1797: Gen...
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