Authors and Contributors this page:
Graham Watson, T.F. Mills
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Page created
15 July 2002
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Corrected and updated
20.11.2004
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10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own)
1715-1969
United Kingdom
Note:
This is a battalion history of the Regular Army. See the main regimental page for full lineage and other information.
Colour Key
Lineage
War service
Overseas service
Home service
1715.07.22
Humphrey Gore's Regiment of Dragoons
raised in Hertfordshire
1715
England
1745
Scotland
: Jacobite war
1746?
England?
1751.07.01
10th Regiment of Dragoons
1751
England?
1755
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
1759?
Germany
1763
England
1763
light toop disbanded
1763
England?
1779.02.25
light toop detached as nucleus to form
19th Light Dragoons
1779
England?
1783.09.29
10th (Prince of Wales's) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
1783
England?
1794
England?
1802
England?
1803
England?
1806
10th (Prince of Wales's Own) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Hussars)
1808.10.19
at sea
1808.11.10
Spain: Corunna
1809
Peninsular war
1809.01
at sea (embarked at
Corunna)
1809
England
<1811>
London
1813.01
at sea (embarked at
Portsmouth)
1813.02
Spain?
1813
Peninsular war
1814
France
1814.07
at sea
1814.07
England: Dover
1814
England
1815
at sea
1815
Belgium
1815
Waterloo campaign
1815.07
France: Paris
Army of Occupation
1816.01
England
1816
UK
1826.12
Portugal (2 sqns)
1828.07?
England
1846
India
1854
at sea
(via Red Sea & Egypt)
1855
Crimea
1856
UK
1861.08.17
10th (The Prince of Wales's Own) Royal Hussars
1873.01.10
at sea
1873
India
1878
Afghanistan
1879
India
<1881>
Bengal
1884
Sudan
1884.04.21
England: Shorncliffe
1885
Aldershot
1887
York
1890
Ireland: Dublin
1893
Cahir
1894?
Ballincollig
1895
Newbridge
1897
England: Canterbury
1899
at sea
ship:
Ismore
(wrecked in St Helena Bay), transferred to
Columbian
1899.12
South Africa
unbrigaded
1900.02
South Africa
2 Cav Bde
1903
India: Mhow
1908
Rawalpindi
1913
South Africa
1914.09
France and Flanders
6 Cav Bde, 3 Cav Div
1914.11
France and Flanders
8 Cav Bde, 3 Cav Div
1918.03
France and Flanders
6 Cav Bde, 3 Cav Div
1919
Ireland: Curragh
1919
[England: Canterbury]
1919
Ireland: Curragh
1921.01.01
10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own)
1923
England: Aldershot
1 Cav Bde
1926
Hounslow
1929
Egypt
1931
India: Meerut
1933
Lucknow
1936
Tidworth
1936
mechanised
1936
Tidworth
3 Div
1938
Tidworth
Mobile Div
1939
UK
2 Armd Bde, 1 Armd Div
1940.06
France & Belgium
1941.11
Middle East
1944.05
Italy
1944.10
Italy
2 Armd Bde
1945
Italy
1946
Germany: Lübeck
1948
Germany: Iserlohn
2 Div (recce)
1953.07
England: Tidworth
50 Bde
1956.02
Jordan: Aqaba
1957.07
England: Tidworth
1959.07
Germany: Münster
6 Bde
1960.02
Germany: Münster
20 Bde
1962.03
Germany: Münster
5 Bde
1963.03
England: Tidworth
1964.08
Aden
1965.08
England: Tidworth
1969.10.25
amalgamated with
11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own)
, to form
The Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own)