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created 15 July 2000. Corrected and updated
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1661.10.21 |
single
troop raised from veterans of Parliamentary Army and
Monmouth's Horse |
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The Tangier
Horse
expanded to four troops; also known until 1751
by names of colonels |
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<1674> |
ranked
as 1st Dragoons |
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1683 |
The King's
Own Royal Regiment of Dragoons
three new troops united with three troops of
Tangier Horse; named for King
Charles II |
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1690 |
The Royal
Regiment of Dragoons |
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1751.07.01 |
1st (Royal)
Regiment of Dragoons |
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1877 |
1st (Royal)
Dragoons |
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1921.01.01 |
1st The Royal
Dragoons |
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1940 |
transferred
to Royal Armoured Corps |
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1961.05.15 |
The Royal
Dragoons (1st Dragoons) |
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1969.03.23 |
amalgamated
with Royal Horse Guards (The Blues),
to form The Blues and Royals
(Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons) |
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Tangier
1662-80, Dettingen,
Warburg, Beaumont,
Willems, Fuentes
d'Onor, Peninsula, Waterloo,
Balaklava, Sevastopol,
Relief of Ladysmith,
South Africa 1899-1902
The Great War: Ypres
1914 '15, Langemarck
1914, Gheluvelt, Nonne Bosschen, Frezenberg, Loos, Arras 1917,
Scarpe 1917, Somme 1918, St. Quentin, Avre, Amiens, Hindenburg
Line, Beaurevoir, Cambrai 1918, Pursuit to Mons, France and
Flanders 1914-18
The Second World War:
Nederrijn, Veghel,
Rhine, North-West Europe 1944-45, Syria
1941, Msus, Gazala,
Knightsbridge, Defence of Alamein Line, El Alamein,
El Agheila, Advance on Tripoli, North Africa 1941-43,
Sicily 1943, Italy
1943
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Badges: |
The Crest of England
within the Garter. 'Spectemur Agendo'. An eagle. |
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Uniform: |
scarlet; facings:
blue |
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1683.11.19 |
Gen. John (Churchill), 1st Duke of Marlborough,
KG |
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1685.08.01 |
Col. Edward (Hyde), 3rd Earl of Clarendon
(Viscount Cornbury) |
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1688.11.24 |
Col. Robert Clifford |
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1688.12.31 |
Col. Edward (Hyde), 3rd Earl of Clarendon
(Viscount Cornbury) [reappointed] |
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1689.07.01 |
Col. Anthony Heyford |
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1690.06.21 |
Brig-Gen. Edward Matthews |
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1697.05.30 |
Lt-Gen. Thomas (Wentworth), 1st Earl of
Strafford, KG (Lord Raby) |
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1715.06.13 |
F.M.
Sir Richard (Temple), Bt., 1st Viscount Cobham |
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1721.04.10 |
Brig-Gen. Sir Charles Hotham, 4th Bt.
[also 1st Dgns, 16th Dgns, 8th Foot,
36th Foot, Hotham's
Foot] |
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1723.01.12 |
Lt-Gen. Humphrey Gore |
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1739.09.01 |
Gen. Charles (Spencer), 3rd Duke of Marlborough,
KG |
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1740.05.12 |
Lt-Gen. Henry Hawley [also
13th Dgns, 33rd
Foot] |
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1759.04.05 |
F.M.
Hon. Henry Seymour Conway |
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1764.05.09 |
Gen. Henry (Herbert), 10th Earl of Pembroke |
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1794.01.28 |
Lt-Gen. Philip Goldsworthy |
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1801.01.07 |
Gen. Thomas Garth [also
22nd Lt Dgns] |
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1829.11.23 |
Gen. Lord Robert Edward Henry Somerset,
GCB |
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1836.03.31 |
Maj-Gen. Hon. Sir Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby,
GCMG, KCB, KCH [also 86th
Foot] |
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1837.01.20 |
Lt-Gen. Sir Richard Hussey (Vivian), 1st
Baron Vivian, GCB, GCH |
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1842.08.30 |
Gen. Sir Arthur Benjamin Clifton, GCB, KCH |
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1869.03.08 |
Gen. Charles Philip de Ainslie |
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1889.03.24 |
Gen. John Yorke, CB |
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1890.03.29 |
Lt-Gen. Sir Frederick Marshall, KCMG |
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1900.06.09 |
Maj-Gen. Francis Shirley Russell, CMG |
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1912.03.22 |
Maj-Gen. Hon. John Edward Lindley |
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1919.04.16 |
Maj-Gen. Sir John Francis Burn-Murdoch,
KCVO, CB, CMG, CBE |
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1931.01.22 |
Brig-Gen. Sir Ernest Makins, KBE, CB, DSO |
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1946.10.13 |
Col. Francis William Wilson-Fitzgerald,
DSO, MC |
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1954.12.09 |
Brig. Anthony Hilton Pepys, DSO |
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1964.12.09 |
Gen. Sir Geoffrey Richard Desmond Fitzpatrick,
KCB, DSO, MBE, MC [continued 1969 as Dep. Col.
Blues & Royals] |
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Motto: |
Spectemur Agendo |
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Nicknames: |
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Anniversaries: |
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Freedoms: |
City of London
(1962?) |
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Marches: |
quick:
The Soldiers' Chorus from Faust (Charles François Gounod)
slow: The Royal Dragoons Slow March (attributed to Capt.
Frisch)
other: The Royal Dragoons (Hermann Ludwig Blankenburg, written
for the Colonel-in-Chief, Kaiser Wilhelm II) |
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Musicians: |
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Mascot: |
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Miscellaneous
Tradition Links: |
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Regimental
Journal: |
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The eagle. Quarterly. |
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Full Histories:
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Cannon, Richard. Historical record
of the First, or The Royal Regiment of Dragoons. London :
Clowes, 1837. (Historical records of the British army) |
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Cannon, Richard. Historical record
of the First, or The Royal Regiment of Dragoons : containing an account
of its formation in the reign of King Charles the Second, and of its
subsequent services to 1839. [new ed.] London : Longman, Orme,
and Co., 1840. (Historical records of the British army) |
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De Ainslie, [Charles Philip]. Historical
record of the First or the Royal Regiment of Dragoons : containing
an account of its formation in the reign of King Charles the Second,
and of its subsequent services to the present time. London
: Chapman and Hall, 1887. |
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Atkinson, Christopher Thomas. History
of the Royal Dragoons : 1661-1934. Glasgow : Printed for the
Regiment by R. Maclehose and Co. Ltd. at the University Press, 1934.
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Hills, R .J. T. (Reginald John Taylor).
The Royal Dragoons. London : Leo Cooper, 1972. (Famous
regiments) ISBN: 0850521203 |
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Watson, J. N. P. (John N. P.). The
story of The Blues and Royals : Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons.
London : Leo Cooper, 1993. ISBN: 0850522382 |
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Mays, Spike. The last of the first.
London : Janus Pub. Co., 1997. ISBN: 1857563255 |
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Second World
War: |
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Pitt-Rivers, J. A. (Julian Alfred). The
story of The Royal Dragoons, 1938-1945; being the history of the Royal
Dragoons in the campaigns of North Africa, the Middle East, Italy
and North-West Europe. London : Published for the Royal Dragoons
by W. Clowes,1945. |
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Pitt-Rivers, J. A. (Julian Alfred). The
story of The Royal Dragoons, 1938-1945; being the history of the Royal
Dragoons in the campaigns of North Africa, the Middle East, Italy
and North-West Europe. [new ed.] London : Published for the
Royal Dragoons by W. Clowes 1956 |
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Pitt-Rivers, J. A. (Julian Alfred). The
story of The Royal Dragoons, 1938-1945; being the history of the Royal
Dragoons in the campaigns of North Africa, the Middle East, Italy
and North-West Europe. [new ed.] London : William Clowes and
Sons, 1993. |
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Other Wars: |
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Atkinson, Christopher Thomas. A Royal
Dragoon in the Spanish Succession War : a contemporary narrative.
London : Printed for the Society for Army Historical Research by Gale
and Polden, 1938. (Special publication (Society for Army Historical
Research (London, England)) ; no. 5) |
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Clark-Kennedy, A. E. (Archibald Edmund).
Attack the colour : the Royal Dragoons in the Peninsula and
at Waterloo. London : Research Pub., 1975. ISBN: 0705000206
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Makins, Ernest (ed.). The Royals in
South Africa, 1899-1902. [s.l.] : Published by the
editor of The eagle, The Royal Dragoons, 1914. |
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Short Histories:
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Makins, Ernest. A short history of
The Royal Dragoons. Potchefstrom, S. Africa : Het Westen Printing
Works, 1914. |
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Short history of The Royal Dragoons.
Aldershot : Gale & Polden, 1954. |
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Short history of The Royal Dragoons.
Ipoh : Granier, 1960. |
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Fiction: |
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Lowthin, Gerald. The eagle.
London : Minerva, 1997. ISBN: 1861065043 [Napoleonic
wars] |
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Special Topics: |
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Sumner, Percy. Uniform and equipment
of cavalry regiments, from 1685 to 1811. II. Dragoon regiments : The
1st Royal Dragoons. Journal of the Society for Army Historical
Research. v. 14 (1935), p. 82-101, 125-142; v. 16 (1937), p. 100-108. |
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Dawnay, N. P. (Nicolas Payan). The
standards of the household cavalry, 1660-1967. Aldershot :
Gale & Polden, [ca. 1970] [2 v.] |
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by A. Melville-Brown
