Authors and Contributors this page: Graham Watson, T.F. Mills
Page created 15 July 2002. Corrected and updated 20.11.2004
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.
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  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)