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1715.07.22 |
Humphrey Gore's
Regiment of Dragoons
ranked as 10th Dragoons; also known until 1751 by
the names of other colonels |
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1751.07.01 |
10th Regiment
of Dragoons |
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1779.02.25 |
light
troop detached as nucleus to form 19th Light Dragoons |
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1783.09.29 |
10th (Prince
of Wales's Own) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
(named for the future King
George IV) |
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1806 |
10th (Prince
of Wales's Own) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Hussars) |
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1811.04.18 |
10th (The Prince
of Wales's Own) Royal Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Hussars) |
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1861.08.17 |
10th (The Prince
of Wales's Own Royal) Hussars |
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10th (Prince
of Wales's Own Royal) Hussars |
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1921.01.01 |
10th Royal
Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own) |
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1936 |
mechanised |
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1939.04 |
transferred
to Royal Armoured Corps |
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1940.12.30 |
cadre
detached to form 23rd Hussars |
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1969.10.25 |
amalgamated
with 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own),
to form The Royal Hussars
(Prince of Wales's Own) |
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Warburg,
Peninsula, Waterloo,
Sevastopol, Ali
Masjid, Afghanistan 1878-79, Egypt
1884, Relief of
Kimberley, Paardeberg, South Africa 1899-1902
The Great War: Ypres
1914 '15, Langemarck
1914, Gheluvelt, Nonne Bosschen, Frezenberg, Loos,
Arras 1917 '18, Scarpe 1917, Somme 1918, St. Quentin,
Avre, Amiens, Drocourt-Quéant, Hindenburg Line,
Beaurevoir, Cambrai 1918, Pursuit to Mons, France and
Flanders 1914-18
The Second World War:
Somme 1940,
North-West Europe 1940, Saunnu,
Gazala, Bir el Aslagh, Alam el Halfa, El Alamein,
El Hamma, El Kourzia, Djebel Kournine, Tunis, North
Africa 1942-43, Coriano,
Santarcangelo, Cosina Canal Crossing, Senio Pocket, Cesena,
Valli di Commacchio, Argenta Gap, Italy 1944-45
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Badges: |
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Uniform: |
blue
headdress: busby with scarlet bag |
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1715.07.22 |
Lt-Gen. Humphrey Gore |
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1723.01.12 |
Lt-Gen. Charles Churchill [also
16th Dgns, Churchill's
Marines] |
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1745.06.01 |
F.M.
Sir Richard (Temple), Bt, 1st Viscount Cobham |
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1749.11.01 |
Gen. Sir John Mordaunt, KB |
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1780.11.02 |
Gen. Sir William Augustus Pitt, KB |
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1796.07.18 |
Col. HRH Prince George, The Prince of Wales
(The Prince Regent)
[later HM
King George IV] |
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1820.02.03 |
Gen. Charles William Vane (Stewart), 3rd
Marquess of Londonderry, KG, GCB, GCH [also 2nd
Life Gds, 25th Lt Dgns] |
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1843.06.23 |
Gen. Henry Beauchamp (Lygon), 4th Earl Beauchamp |
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1863.04.23 |
F.M.
HRH Prince Edward,
The Prince of Wales [later King Edward VII] |
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1901.03.20 |
Majp-Gen. Lord Ralph Drury Kerr, KCB |
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1912.11.22 |
Maj-Gen. Richard (Dawnay), 8th Viscount
Downe, KCVO, CB, CIE |
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1924.01.22 |
F.M.
Sir Julian Hedworth George (Byng), 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, GCB,
GCMG, MVO |
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1935.06.07 |
Brig-Gen. Thomas Walter (Brand), 3rd Viscount
Hampden, GCVO, KCB, CMG |
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1939.01.29 |
Col. Victor John Greenwood, MC |
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1947.01.01 |
Lt-Gen. Sir Charles Willoughby Moke (Norrie),
1st Baron Norrie, GCMG, GCVO, CB, DSO, MC |
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1949.05.31 |
Lt-Gen. Sir Charles Henry Gairdner, GBE,
KCMG, KCVO, CB |
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1952.03.14 |
Brig. Chalres Barnet Cameron Harvey, DSO |
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1962.03.14 |
Maj-Gen. Sir David Dawnay, KCVO, CB, DSO
[continued 1969 in Royal Hussars] |
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Motto: |
Ich Dien |
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Nicknames: |
El
Alamein (23 Oct.) |
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Freedoms: |
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Marches: |
quick:
The Merry Month of May (anon. 18th c., arr. Meredith Roberts)
slow: Men of Harlech
other: As Pants the Hart from Calvary (Louis Spohr)+
Chant No. 1 (Trent) after Last Post |
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Miscellaneous
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Regimental
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The Tenth Royal Hussars gazette. |
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Full Histories:
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Brander, M. The 10th Royal Hussars
(1715-1969). Leo Cooper, 1969. |
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Keown-Boyd, Henry. Remember with advantages
: a history of the Tenth, Eleventh and Royal Hussars, 1945-1992.
London : Leo Cooper, 1994. ISBN: 0850523826 |
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Short Histories:
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by A. Melville-Brown 
