Authors and Contributors this page:
Graham Watson, T.F. Mills
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Page created
10 July 2002
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Corrected and updated
20.11.2004
Disclaimers
1st The King's Dragoon Guards
1685-1959
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
1685.06.06
The Queen's Regiment of Horse
raised in London
1685
Monmouth rebellion
1685
England
1689
Scotland
: Jacobite war
1690
Ireland
: Jacobite war
169u
Flanders
1698?
England?
1702?
Flanders & Germany
1714
Flanders: Ghent
Army of Occupation
1714
England
1742
Flanders
1746.12.25
The King's Regiment of Dragoon Guards
1748?
England?
1751.07.01
1st, or King's Regiment of Dragoon Guards
1759?
Flanders & Germany
1763
England?
1793
Flanders
1796
England
1802
England
1803
England
1814
England
1815.04
at sea
(4 troops)
1815.04.24
Belgium: Ostend (4 troops)
1815
Waterloo campaign
(4 troops)
1 Cav Bde
1815
France (4 troops)
Army of Occupation
1816.05
UK
1838
Canada
1838
Canada
1843
UK
1855.08
Crimea
1857
UK
1857
India
1857
Sepoy rebellion
1859
India
1860
China
1860?
India
1865
England
1879
Zululand
1879
Transvaal
1880.09
at sea
1880
India
[less det remaining in South Africa]
1881.01
South Africa
(det)
1881.03
Natal
(det)
1882
India: Meerut
[whole regt]
1885
Rawalpindi
1891
England: Shorncliffe
1893
Norwich
1896
Colchester
1898
Ireland: Dublin
1901.01.08
at sea
ship:
Maplemore
1901.02
South Africa
1902
England: Hounslow
1904
Aldershot
1906
Hounslow
1907
India: Ambala
1913
Lucknow
1914.10
France and Flanders
1 Ind Cav Div, BEF
1916.11
France and Flanders
4 Cav Div
1917.10
India
1918.11
India
1919
Afghanistan
1919
Iraq
7 Cav Bde
1921.01.01
1st The King's Dragoon Guards
1921
Scotland: Edinburgh
1923
England: Aldershot & Hounslow
2 Div
1924
Germany
Army of Occupation
1927
England: Aldershot
1 Cav Bde
1929
Tidworth
1930
Aldershot
2 Div
1932
Egypt
1935
India: Secunderabad
1937
Aldershot
1 Cav Bde
1937
mechanised
1939
UK
1 Armd Bde, 2 Armd Div
1941.01
Middle East
recce regt, 2 Armd Div
1941.06
Middle East
Corps Troops
1942.11
Middle East
4 Armd Bde
1943.04
Middle East
Corps Troops
1943.10
Italy
1944.12
Greece
1945.05
?
1948
Palestine & Transjordan
1948
UK [TA]
1949
Northern Ireland: Omagh
1951
Germany: Hamburg
Germany: NeuMünster
1956.06
Malaya
UK?
1959.01.01
amalgamated with
The Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards)
, to form
1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards