Authors and Contributors this page: Graham Watson, T.F. Mills
Page created 10 October 2002. Corrected and updated 19.11.2004
1688-1922
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
 
   
  1688 independent troops raised in England
  1688 Glorious Revolution Lord Devonshire's troop escorted Princess Anne from London to Nottingham Castle, then to Oxford
  1688.12.31 Lord Cavendish's Regiment of Horse
formed by regimentation of independent troops
1689 Ireland: Jacobite war
1691 Flanders
  1698 England
  1702 Flanders & Germany
  1714 Ireland
  1742 Flanders
  1745 England
  1747 Ireland
1751.07.01 4th Regiment of Horse
1760 Germany
1763 Ireland
1788.04.01 7th (The Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards
  1793 Ireland
1799 England
1814 Ireland
  1820 Scotland
  1822 England
  1843 Cape Colony
  1846 Kaffir war
  1848 England
  1858 India  
  1858 Sepoy rebellion: Bengal
  1859 India
  1867 England
  1872 Ireland
  1878 England
  <1881> Aldershot
  1882.07 Egypt  
  1882.10 England: Aldershot  
1883 India: Mhow
  1888 Umballa
  1891 Muttra
1893 Egypt
1894 England: Shorncliffe  
  1896 Norwich
  1899 Colchester
  1900.02.08 at sea ship: Armenian
  1900.03.01 South Africa  
  1900.04 South Africa 4 Cav Bde
  1904 England: Canterbury
  1908 Egypt
  1911 India: Secunderabad
  1914.12 France and Flanders 2 Ind Cav Div, BEF
  1916.11 France and Flanders 5 Cav Div
  1918.03 France and Flanders 7 Cav Bde, 3 Cav Div
  1919 Aldershot
  1919 Iraq 7 Cav Bde
1921 7th Dragoon Guards (The Princess Royal's)
1921 Iraq
  1922.10.22 amalgamated with 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards, to form 4th/7th Dragoon Guards