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1685.06.20 |
Earl of Peterborough's
Regiment of Horse
formed by regimentation of four existing troops
(Sir John Talbot's Troop
at Hounslow, John Lloyd's Troop
at Edgware, Sir Michael Wentworth's
Troop in Yorkshire, and Lord
Aylesbury's Troop in London); ranked
as 3rd Horse; also known until 1751 by the names of other colonels |
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1715 |
The Princess
of Wales's Own Regiment of Horse
(named for the future Queen
Caroline) |
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1727 |
The Queen's
Own Regiment of Horse
(redesignated when the Princess of Wales became
Queen) |
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1746.12.25 |
The Queen's
Regiment of Dragoon Guards
ranked as 2nd Dragoon Guards |
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1751.07.01 |
2nd (The
Queen's) Regiment of Dragoon Guards |
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1767 |
2nd Dragoon
Guards (Queen's Bays) |
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1921.01.01 |
The Queen's
Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards) |
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1936 |
mechanised |
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1939.04 |
transferred
to Royal Armoured Corps |
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1959.01.01 |
amalgamated
with 1st King's Dragoon Guards,
to form 1st The Queen's Dragoon
Guards |
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Warburg,
Willems, Lucknow,
South Africa 1901-02
The Great War: Mons,
Le Cateau, Retreat
from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914, Messines 1914,
Armentières 1914, Ypres 1914 '15, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde,
Somme 1916 '18, Flers-Courcelette, Arras 1917, Scarpe
1917, Cambrai 1917 '18, St. Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Rosières,
Amiens, Albert 1918, Hindenburg Line, St. Quentin Canal,
Beaurevoir, Pursuit to Mons, France and Flanders 1914-18
The Second World War:
Somme 1940,
Withdrawal to Seine, North-West Europe 1940, Msus,
Gazala, Bir el Aslagh, Cauldron, Knightsbridge, Via Balbia,
Mersa Matruh, El Alamein, Tebaga Gap, El Hamma,
El Kourzia, Djebel Kournine, Tunis, Creteville Pass,
North Africa 1941-43, Coriano,
Carpineta, Lamone Crossing, Defence of Lamone Bridgehead,
Rimini Line, Ceriano Ridge, Cesena, Argenta Gap,
Italy 1944-45
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1685.06.20 |
Col. Henry (Mordaunt), 1st Earl of Peterborough,
KG [also 2nd Foot;
Capt. Gen. Tangier] |
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1688.12.31 |
Brig-Gen. Hon. Edward Villiers |
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1694.01.19 |
Maj-Gen. Richard Leveson |
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1699.03.25 |
Gen. Daniel Harvey |
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1712.01.01 |
Col. John Bland |
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1715.02.09 |
Col. Thomas (Pitt), 1st Earl of Londonderry |
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1726.08.26 |
F.M.
John (Campbell), 2nd Duke of Argyll, KG, KT (Earl of Islay, Lord Lorne)
[also 4th Tp Horse
Gds, R Horse Gds, 3rd
Foot, Lorne's Foot(1),
Lorne's Foot(2), Argyll's
Foot; Gov. Minorca 1712-16; MGO 1725-40] |
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1733.08.06 |
Gen. William Evans |
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1740.05.06 |
Gen. John (Montagu), 2nd Duke of Montagu,
KG, KB |
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1749.07.24 |
F.M.
Sir John Louis (Ligioner), 1st Earl Ligonier, KB |
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1753.01.27 |
Maj-Gen. Hon. William Herbert |
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1757.04.05 |
Lt-Gen. George (Germain), 1st Viscount Sackville |
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1759.09.10 |
Gen. John (Waldegrave), 3rd Earl Waldegrave |
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1773.07.15 |
F.M.
George (Townshend), 1st Marquess Townshend |
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1807.09.18 |
Lt-Gen. Sir Charles Cregan Craufurd, GCB |
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1821.04.02 |
Lt-Gen. William Loftus [also
24th Lt Dgns, 24th [27th]
Lt Dgns] |
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1831.07.20 |
Gen. Sir James Hay, KCH |
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1837.02.20 |
Gen. Sir Thomas Gage Montresor, KCH, KC |
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1853.06.02 |
Gen. Hon. Henry Frederick Compton Cavendish |
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1873.04.06 |
Gen. Sir Henry Dalrymple White, KCB |
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1874.08.01 |
Gen. Alexander Low, CB |
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1881.12.22 |
Gen. Sir Charles Pyndar Beauchamp Walker,
KCB |
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1894.01.20 |
Gen. Sir William Henry Seymour, KCB |
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1921.06.21 |
Lt-Gen. Sir Hew Dalrymple Fanshawe, KCB,
KCMG |
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1930.10.30 |
Lt-Gen. Sir Antony Ernest Wentworth Harman,
KCB, DSO |
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1945.04.21 |
Brig. James Joseph Kingstone, CBE, DSO,
MC |
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1954.11.01 |
Col. George William Charles Draffen, DSO
[to 1959] |
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Motto: |
Pro rege et
patria |
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Nicknames: |
The Bays, The
Rusty Buckles |
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Freedoms: |
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Marches: |
quick:
Rusty Buckles (Charles Cousins)
slow: The Queen's Bays (arr. of Rusty Buckles)
dismounted march past: The Soldiers' Chorus from Faust
(Charles Francois Gounod) |
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Miscellaneous
Tradition Links: |
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Regimental
Journal: |
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Regimental journal of The Queen's
Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards). |
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Full Histories:
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Cannon, Richard. Historical record
of The Second, or, Queen's Regiment of Dragoon Guards, (Queen's Bays)
containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1685 and
of its subsequent services to 1837. London : W. Clowes, 1837.
(Historical records of the British Army) |
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Whyte, Frederic; Atteridge, A. Hilliard
(Andrew Hilliard); Hall, Harold Wesley.. A history of the Queen's
Bays (The 2nd Dragoon Guards), 1685-1929. London : Cape, 1930. |
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Beddington, William Richard. A history
of the Queen's Bays (the 2nd Dragoon Guards) 1929-1945. Winchester
: Warren, 1954. |
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Belfield, Eversley Michael Gallimore. The
Queen's Dragoon Guards. London : Leo Cooper, 1978. (Famous
regiments) ISBN: 0850522420 |
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Mann, Michael. The regimental history
of 1st the Queen's Dragoon Guards. Wilby, Norwich : The Dragoon
Guards, 1993. ISBN: 085955189X |
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A short history of The Queen's Bays
from the outbreak of the Second World War, 3rd Septebmer 1939, to
the capitulation of the German armies in Italy, 2nd May 1945.
Aldershot : Gale & Polden, 1947. |
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Short Histories:
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Special Topics: |
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The dress distinctions of the Queen's
Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards). Cambridge : Langridge's Military
Publications, 1960. |
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by A. Melville-Brown 
