Authors and Contributors this page: Graham Watson, T.F. Mills
Page created 10 October 2002. Corrected and updated 19.11.2004
1685-1751
1751-1788
1788-1922
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
 
     
  1685.07.31 The Queen Dowager's Regiment of Horse
formed
  1685 England
  1689 Ireland: Jacobite war
  1691 England
  1692.03 Flanders
  1692 The King's Regiment of Carabiniers
  1697 England
  1702 Flanders
  1713 Ireland
  1740 His Majesty's 1st Regiment of Carabiniers
  1744 England
  174u Ireland
  1751.07.01 3rd Regiment of Horse
  1760 Germany
  1763 Ireland
  1788.04.01 6th Regiment of Dragoon Guards
  1793 Flanders
  1795 England
  1796 Ireland
  1803 England
  1806 South America (4 troops dismounted)
  1807 England & Scotland
  1813 Ireland
  1815 England & Scotland
  1821 Ireland
  1824 England & Scotland
  1826 6th Regiment of Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)
  1830 Ireland
  1834 England
  1840 Ireland
    6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)
  1842 England & Scotland
  1846 Ireland
  1852 England
  1855.08 Crimea
  1856.05 England
  1856.08 at sea
  1856 India
  1857.03 Meerut  
  1857.05.10 Sepoy rebellion  
  1859 India  
  1861.04 England: Exeter
  186u Brentford  
  1866 Ireland
  1872.05 England
  1877.12 at sea
  1878 India
  1879.09 Afghanistan
  1880.10 India: Sialkot
  1888.11 Scotland: Edinburgh
  1893 England: York
  1894 Aldershot
  1899.12 South Africa 1 Cav Bde
  1903 India: Bangalore
  1906 Mhow
  1908 South Africa
  1912 England: Canterbury
  1914.08 France and Flanders 4 Cav Bde, BEF
  1914.09 France and Flanders 4 Cav Bde, 2 Cav Div, BEF
  1919 Ireland: Curragh
  1922.10.24 amalgamated with 3rd Dragoon Guards (Prince of Wales's), to form 3rd/6th Dragoon Guards