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