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
19.11.2004
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The King's Carabiniers
1685-1751
3rd Horse
1751-1788
6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)
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