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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4th Royal Irish 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
1685.07.28
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