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created 1 August 2000. Corrected and updated
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1689.05 |
independent
troops (ten horse, two dragoons) on Scots Establishment |
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1690.12.30 |
The Queen's
Own Regiment of Dragoons
formed by conversion of horse to dragoons and regimentation
of six of the troops (Lord Rollo, Lord Ross, the Laird of Blair, the
Master of Forbes, the Earl of Annandale, and Lord Belhaven -- the
latter two being the original dragoon troops; other six troops regimented
as Newbattle's Dragoons); ranked as 8th Dragoons; named for Queen
Mary; also known until 1751 by the names of colonels |
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1691 |
ranked
as 7th Dragoons |
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1698 |
transferred
to Scots Establishment |
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1708 |
transferred
to English Establishment |
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1714.04.16 |
disbanded
(troops absorbed by 1st Dragoons and
2nd Dragoons) |
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1715.02.15 |
The Princess
of Wales's Own Regiment of Dragoons
re-formed without loss of precedence from
troops of 1st Dragoons and 2nd
Dragoons; re-named for the future Queen
Caroline |
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1727 |
The Queen's
Own Regiment of Dragoons
(redesignated when the Princess of Wales became
Queen) |
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1751.07.01 |
7th (The
Queen's Own) Regiment of Dragoons |
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1783 |
7th (or Queen's
Own) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons |
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1807.12.25 |
7th (The
Queen's Own) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Hussars) |
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1861.08.17 |
7th (The
Queen's Own) Hussars |
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7th (Queen's
Own) Hussars |
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1921.01.01 |
7th Queen's
Own Hussars |
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1939.04 |
transferred
to Royal Armoured Corps |
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1958.11.03 |
amalgamated
with 3rd The King's Own Hussars, to
form The Queen's Own Hussars |
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Dettingen,
Warburg, Beaumont,
Willems, Orthes,
Peninsula, Waterloo,
Lucknow, South
Africa 1901-02
The Great War: Khan
Baghdadi, Sharqat, Mesopotamia 1917-18
The Second World War: Egyptian
Frontier 1940, Beda Fomm, Sidi Rezegh 1941, North Africa 1940-41,
Ancona, Rimini Line, Italy
1944-45, Pegu, Paungde,
Burma 1942
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1690.12.30 |
Brig-Gen. Richard Cunningham |
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1696.10.01 |
Lt-Gen. William (Kerr), 2nd Marquess of
Lothian, KT (Lord Jedburgh) |
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1707.04.28 |
Col. Patrick (Hume), Baron Polwarth |
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1709.10.10 |
Lt-Gen. Hon. William Kerr
[to 1714] |
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1715.02.02 |
Lt-Gen. Hon. William Kerr [reappointed] |
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1741.08.12 |
Lt-Gen. Sir John Cope, KB |
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1760.08.18 |
Gen. John Mostyn |
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1763.05.13 |
F.M.
Sir George Howard, KB |
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1779.04.21 |
Gen. Sir Henry Clinton, KB
[senior] |
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1795.12.23 |
Gen. Sir David Dundas, GCB
[also 1st Dgn Gds, 2nd
Dgns, 22nd Foot, Rifle
Bde; QMG 1796-1803; C-in-C] |
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1801.05.16 |
F.M.
Henry William (Paget), 1st Marquess of Anglesey, KG, GCB, GCH |
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1842.12.20 |
Lt-Gen. Sir James Keanrey, KCH |
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1846.03.10 |
Gen. Sir William Tuyll, KCH |
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1864.12.27 |
Gen. James Alexander St. Clair (Erskine),
3rd Earl of Rosslyn |
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1866.06.17 |
Gen. Sir John Scott, KCB |
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1873.01.19 |
Gen. Charles Hagart, CB |
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1879.07.31 |
Gen. Henry Roxby Benson, CB |
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1884.07.19 |
Lt-Gen. William Thomas Dickson |
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1896.02.12 |
Maj-Gen. Robert Hale |
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1907.05.13 |
Maj-Gen. Sir Hugh McCalmont, KCB, CVO |
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1924.05.03 |
Maj-Gen. Alexander
Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone,
KG, PC, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, DSO, ADC |
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1946.09.01 |
Col. Geoffrey Fielden, OBE |
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1948.05.31 |
Col. Thomas Anson Thornton, CVO |
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1952.01.06 |
Maj-Gen. Ralph Younger, CB, CBE, DSO, MC
[continued 1958 in QO Hussars] |
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Motto: |
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Anniversaries: |
Waterloo
(18 June) |
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Marches: |
quick:
The Kynegad Slashers (from the regiment's nickname and exploits
in 18th century Ireland; aka: Brian O'Lynn's Breeches, or
Bannocks o'Barley Meal)
slow: The Garb of Old Gaul (aka: 2nd
Dragoons, or 7th Hussars)
canter: The Campbells are Coming. |
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Miscellaneous
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Regimental
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The regimental journal of the 7th
(Queen's Own) Hussars. |
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Full Histories:
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Brereton, J. M. The Seventh Queen's
Own Hussars. Leo Cooper, 1975. |
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Short Histories:
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by A. Melville-Brown 
