Authors and Contributors this page: Graham Watson, T.F. Mills
Page created 10 July 2002. Corrected and updated 20.11.2004
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