Authors and Contributors this page: Graham Watson, T.F. Mills
Page created 10 July 2002. Corrected and updated 19.11.2004
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.
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  1685.06.20 Earl of Peterborough's Regiment of Horse
formed by regimentation of troops raised earlier in the 1685
  1685 England
  1689 Ireland: Jacobite war
  1690? Flanders
  1698 England?
  1703 at sea (without horses)
  1703 Portugal (obtained horses)
  1704? Spain
  1710.12.09 captured at Brihuega (and soon repatriated?)
  1714 England
  1715 Scotland: Jacobite war
  1715 England?
  1746 Scotland: Jacobite war
  1746 England?
  1746.12.25 The Queen's Regiment of Dragoon Guards
  1747 England?
  1751.07.01 2nd (The Queen's) Regiment of Dragoon Guards
  1756 England?
  1760? Germany
  1763 England?
  1793 Flanders
  1796 England
  1815 Belgium
  1815 France Army of Occupation
  1818.11 UK
  1857.07 at sea
  1857 India
  1857 Sepoy rebellion
  1859 India
  1870 England
  <1881> Longford
  1882 Aldershot
  1884 Shorncliffe
  1885 India: Sialkot
  1893 Rawalpindi
  1895 Egypt
  1896 England: Shorncliffe
  1897 Leeds
  1899 York
  1901.11.18 at sea (embarked at Southampton) ship: Orotava
  1901.12 South Africa
  1902 South Africa
  1908 England: Hounslow
  1910 Aldershot
  1914 Ireland: Dublin
  1914 England: Aldershot  
  1914.08.16 France and Flanders 1 Cav Bde, 1 Cav Div, BEF
  1919 Egypt & Palestine
  1920 India: Bangalore
  1921.01.01 The Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards)
  1923 Sialkot
  1928.01 England: Colchester
  1929 Tidworth
  1931 Shorncliffe 1 Div
  1933 Aldershot
  1936-37 mechanised
  1937 Tidworth training unit, 2 Cav Bde
  1939.09 UK 2 Armd Bde, 1 Armd Div
  1941.11 Middle East
  1944.05 Italy
  1944.10 Italy 2 Armd Bde
  1945.05 ?
  1946 England: Chester [TA]
  1948 Germany: Fallingbostel 7 Armd Bde
  1954.09 England: Tidworth
  1954.12 Libya & Jordan
  1957.08 UK
  1959.01.01 amalgamated with 1st The King's Dragoon Guards, to form 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards