Authors and Contributors this page: Graham Watson, T.F. Mills
Page created 10 July 2002. Corrected and updated 20.11.2004
1661-1969
United Kingdom  
Note:This is a battalion history of the Regular Army. See the main regimental page for full lineage and other information.
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  1661.10.21 independent troops raised in England
  1661 Dunkirk garrison
  1662 Tangiers
  1662? Tangier Horse
1680 England
  1681? augmented by troop raised at St. Albans by John Churchill, and troop raised at Hertford by Lord Cornbury
  1681 England
  1683 The King's Own Royal Regiment of Dragoons
  1685 Monmouth rebellion
  1685 England
  1689 Ireland: Jacobite war
  1690 The Royal Regiment of Dragoons
  1694 Flanders
  1697 England
  1698 England
  1702 Flanders
1706 Portugal
  1706 Spain
  1710 captured at Brihuega (and soon repatriated?)
  1714 England
  1715 Jacobite war: Lancashire
  1715 England?
  1719 Spanish coast (det)
  1719 England?
  1742 Flanders
  1748 England?
  1751.07.01 1st (Royal) Regiment of Dragoons
  1751 England?
  1756? light toop formed
  1756 England
  1758.06.05 French coast: St. Malo (Lt Tp)
  1758.06.07 at sea several raids on French coast aborted
  1758.07.01 England: Portsmouth
  1758.08.08 French coast: Cherbourg (Lt Tp)
  1758.09 England
  1760 Germany
  1763 England?
  1763? light toop disbanded
  1793 Flanders (4 troops)
  1799? England  
  1809.09.02 at sea  
  1809.09.13 Portugal
  1809 Peninsular war
  1814.05 France
  1814.07.18 at sea (embarked at Calais)  
  1814.07.19 England: Dover  
  1814 England?
  1815.05 Belgium  
  1815 Waterloo campaign
  1815.07 France: Paris  
  1816.01 at sea (embarked at Calais)  
  1816.01.16 England: Dover  
  1816 UK
  1854 Crimea Heavy Bde
  1856 England
  1856 Ireland  
  1861 England  
  1867 Ireland  
1873 Scotland
  1875 England
  1877 1st (Royal) Dragoons
  1880 Ireland: Dublin
  1882 Newbridge
  1884 Egypt (det)
  1885 Dundalk
  1888 England: Aldershot
  1891 York
  1893 Ireland: Dublin
  1896 Dundalk
  1898 England: Hounslow
  1899.10.30 at sea
  1899.11.26 South Africa  
  1900.02 South Africa 4 Cav Bde
  1902 England: Shorncliffe
  1904 India: Lucknow
  1909 Muttra
  1911 South Africa
  1914 England: Longmoor
  1914.09 France and Flanders 6 Cav Bde, 3 Cav Div
  1919 England: Hounslow
  1919 Ireland: Mullingar
1921 1st The Royal Dragoons
1922 England: Aldershot 1 Cav Bde
  1927 Egypt
  1928 India: Bolarum
  1931 Meerut
  1935 Egypt
  1936 England: Shorncliffe 4 Div
  1939 Palestine
  1940.11 Egypt
  1940.12.08 mechanised (armoured cars)
  1941.06 Syria  
  1942.05 Middle East recce regt, 1 Armd Div
  1942.09 Middle East recce regt, 10 Armd Div
  1942.11 Middle East 4 Armd Bde
  1943.05 UK XII Corps Troops
  1944.06 North West Europe
1945.05 Germany BAOR
1950 England: Chester
1950 Egypt
1954 Germany: Münster
1959 Aden (Sqn at Sharjah)
1960 Malaya
1961 The Royal Dragoons (1st Dragoons)
1962 England: Tidworth
1964 (Cyprus)
1964 England: Tidworth
1965.02 Germany: Detmold 20 Armd Bde
  1969.03.23 amalgamated at Detmold with Royal Horse Guards (The Blues), to form The Blues and Royal (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons)