Authors and Contributors this page:
Graham Watson, T.F. Mills
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Page created
10 October 2002
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Corrected and updated
20.11.2004
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3rd (Prince of Wales's) Dragoon Guards
1685-1922
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
1685.07.15
Earl of Plymouth's Horse
formed by regimentation of troops of Cuirassiers raised earlier in 1685
1685
England
1689
Scotland
: Jacobite war
1690?
Flanders
1695?
England?
1698?
England?
1uuu
Germany
1702
Flanders & Germany
1714
Germany
1715
Scotland
: Jacobite war
1715
England?
1745
Scotland
: Jacobite war
1746
England?
1746.12.25
George Wade's Regiment of Dragoon Guards
(ranked as 3rd Dragoon Guards)
1747
England?
1751.07.01
3rd Regiment of Dragoon Guards
175?
Flanders & Germany
1763
England
1765
3rd (The Prince of Wales's) Dragoon Guards
<1776>
England: Northampton
1780
France?
1783?
England?
1793
Flanders
1795
Germany: Bremen
1795?
England
1809.04.03
at sea (embarked at
Portsmouth)
1809.04.27
Portugal: Lisbon
1809
Peninsular war
Fane Cav Bde
1814.05
France
1814.07.20
at sea
1814.07.21
England: Ramsgate & Dover
1814
England
1815
France
Army of Occupation
1816.01
England
1816.06
Ireland
1829
England
1834
Ireland
1837
England
1843
Ireland
1846
Scotland
1848
England
1852
Ireland
1857.03
England
1857.08
India
1857
Sepoy rebellion
: Bombay presid.
1859
India
1868.02
Abysinnia
1868.05
England
1875
Ireland
1881
Scotland: Edinburgh
1884
India: Muttra
1889
Rawalpindi
1893
Natal
1895
England: Woolwich
1897
York
1899
Ireland: Dundalk
1901.01.22
at sea
ship:
Victorian
1901.02
South Africa
1903
Ireland: Ballincolig
1906
Curragh
1907
England: Aldershot
1910
Hounslow
1912
Egypt: Cairo
1914.10
France and Flanders
6 Cav Bde, 3 Cav Div
1919
Ireland: Curragh
1921.01.01
3rd Dragoon Guards (Prince of Wales's)
1921
India: Sialkot
1922.10.24
amalgamated with
6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)
, to form
3rd/6th Dragoon Guards