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
 
   
  1685.07.28 Earl of Arran's Regiment of Cuirassiers
1685 UK
1691 Flanders
1697 England
1698 Ireland
1751.07.01 1st Regiment of Horse
  1751 Ireland
1788.04.01 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards
1793 England
1795 Ireland
  1795 France: Brittany  
  1795 Ireland  
  1799 England
  1802 Ireland
  1804 England
  1811.07.24 at sea (embarked at Portsmouth)  
  1811.08.04 Portugal: Libson
  1811 Peninsular war Le Marchant Bde
  1812 Peninsular war Slade Bde
  1813.04.15 at sea (embarked at Lisbon) (horses tsfd to 3DG and 1D)
  1813.06.03 England: Portsmouth
  1813 England
  1814 Ireland
  1818 England
  1822 Ireland
1822 Ireland
1826 England
  1832 Ireland
  1835 England
  1841 Ireland
  1845 England
  1851 Ireland
  1854 Crimea Heavy Bde
  1856 England
  1861 Ireland
  1867 England
  <1872> Ireland
  1878 England:
  <1881> Aldershot
  1882 Brighton
  1882.07 Egypt
  1882.10 England: Brighton
  1884 Sudan (det)
  1886 Manchester
1888 Ireland: Newbridge
  1891 Aldershot
  1894 India: Rawalpindi
  1902 Muttra
  1904 South Africa
  1908 England: Brighton
  1910 Tidworth
  1914.08 France and Flanders 2 Cav Bde, 1 Cav Div, BEF
  1919 Ireland
  1919.07 England: Tidworth
1921.01.01 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards
1921 India: Secunderabad
  1922.10.22 amalgamated with 7th (The Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards, to form 4th/7th Dragoon Guards