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 The Royal Scots Greys
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 by A. Melville-Brown
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1678 three independent troops raised in Scotland
16uu three more troops raised
1681.11.25 Royal Regiment of Scots Dragoons, or, His Majesty's Regiment of Dragoons
formed by regimentation of independent troops; also known until 1751 by the names of ten colonels
1688.11.01 ranked as 2nd Dragoons
1702 Grey Dragoons, or Scots Regiment of White Horses
1737 Royal Regiment of North British Dragoons
1751.07.01 2nd (Royal North British) Regiment of Dragoons
1866 2nd (Royal North British) Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys)
1877.04.03 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys)
1921.01.01 The Royal Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons)
1941.07.19 transferred to Royal Armoured Corps
1971.07.02 amalgamated with 3rd Carabiniers (Prince of Wales's Dragoon Guards), to form
The Royal Scots Dragoons Guards (Carabiniers and Greys)
pip Deployment and Service
pip The 2nd Dragoons - Royal Scots Greys, by Sir James Balfour Paul (The Lowland Scots Regiments, 1918)
pip

The Royal Scots Greys (Scottish Military Historical Society)
pip Timelines (RSDG Regimental site)
pip The Battle of Waterloo and The Royal Scots Greys and Sergeant Charles Ewart (BritishBattles.com)
pip The Dragoons, by Chris Baker (The British Army in the Great War)
pip British Cavalry Regiments, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath 1914-1918)
   
RHQ and Depot:
  Home HQ: The Castle, Edinburgh (1958-1971)
  Depot:
  Recruiting Area: Scotland (1958-1971)
   
 
Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde, Malplaquet, Dettingen, Warburg, Willems, Waterloo, Balaklava, Sevastopol, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, South Africa, 1899-1902 

The Great War:  Mons, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914, Messines 1914, Ypres 1914 '15, Gheluvelt, Neuve Chapelle, St. Julien, Bellewaarde, Arras 1917, Scarpe 1917, Cambrai 1917 '18, Lys, Hazebrouck, Amiens, Somme 1918, Albert 1918, Bapaume 1918, Hindenburg Line, St Quentin Canal, Beaurevoir, Pursuit to Mons, France and Flanders 1914-18 

The Second World War:  Caen, Hill 112, Falaise, Venlo Pocket, Hochwald, Aller, Bremen, North-West Europe 1944-45, Merjayun, Syria 1941, Alam El Halfa, El Alamein, El Agheila, Nofilia, Advance on Tripoli, North Africa 1942-43, Salerno, Battipaglia, Volturno Crossing, Italy 1943

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Badges: The Thistle within the circle and motto of the Order of the Thistle, with the Crown above and the Title scrolled below
Uniform: tartan: Government (pipers' kilts & plaids), 1946-?, Royal Stewart (?-1971)
   
   
     
   
1894.12.08 F.M. HIM Nicholas II, Tsar of all the Russias
1921.11.08 Hon. Maj-Gen. HRH Prince Arthur of Connaught, KG, KT, GCMG, GCVO, CB
1939.06.08 F.M. HM King George VI
1953.06.02 HM Queen Elizabeth II
1681.11.25 Lt-Gen. Thomas Dalzell
1685.11.06 Col. Charles (Murray), 1st Earl of Dunmore
1688.12.31 Lt-Gen. Sir Thomas (Livingston), Bt., 1st Viscount Teviot
1704.04.07 Brig-Gen. Lord John Hay
1706.08.24 F.M. John (Dalrymple), 2nd Earl of Stair (Lord Dalrymple), KT [also 6th Dgns, Stair's Dgns, 26th Foot, Dalrymple's Foot; C-in-C]
1714.04.21 Gen. Sir David (Colyear), 1st Earl of Portmore, KT [also 2nd Foot, Portmore's Foot]
1717.02.15 Lt-Gen. Hon. Sir James Campbell, KB (of Lawars)
1745.05.28 F.M. John (Dalrymple), 2nd Earl of Stair, KT [reappointed]
1747.05.28 Lt-Gen. John (Lindsay), 20th Earl of Crawford [also 4th Tp Horse Gds, 2nd Tp Horse Gren Gds, 25th Foot, 42nd Hldrs; AG 1739-43]
1750.01.18 Gen. John (Leslie), 10th Earl of Rothes, KT
1752.04.29 Gen. John (Campbell), 4th Duke of Argyll, KT
1770.11.10 Gen. William (Maule), 1st Earl of Panmure
1782.04.18 Lt-Gen. George Preston
1785.02.04 Gen. James Johnston (senior)
1795.12.02 Gen. Archibald (Montgomerie), 11th Earl of Eglinton
1796.11.03 Lt-Gen. Sir Ralph Abercromby, KB [also 7th Dgn Gds, 6th Foot, 69th Foot, 103rd Foot]
1801.05.16 Gen. Sir David Dundas, GCB [also 1st Dgn Gds, 7th Hussars, 22nd Foot, Rifle Bde; QMG 1796-1803; C-in-C]
1813.01.27 Gen. William John (Kerr), 5th Marquess of Lothian, KT
1815.01.12 Gen. Sir James Steuart, Bt., GCH
1839.08.24 Gen. Sir William Keir Grant, KCB, GCH
1852.05.25 Lt-Gen. Archibald Money, CB
1858.08.26 Lt-Gen. Arthur Moyses William (Hill), 2nd Baron Sandys
1860.07.17 Lt-Gen. Sir Alexander Kennedy Clark-Kennedy, KCB, KH
1864.01.31 Gen. Sir John Bloomfield Gough, GCB
1891.09.23 Gen. George Calvert Clarke, CB
1900.02.10 Lt-Gen. Andrew Nugent
1905.07.11 Maj-Gen. Andrew Smythe Montague Browne
1916.03.09 F.M. Sir William Robert Robertson, Bt., GCB, GCMG, GCVO, DSO [also RHG, 3rd Dgn Gds; CIGS]
1925.09.05 F.M. Sir Philip Walhouse (Chetwode), 1st Baron Chetwode, GCB, OM, GCSI, KCMG, DSO [also 14th/20th Hussars; AG 1922-23; CGS India 1929-30; C-in-C India; Constable of the Tower 1943-48]
1947.01.01 Brig. George Herbert Norris Todd, MC
1958.01.01 Col. (Hon. Brig.) John Edmund Swetenham, DSO
1968.01.01 Col. Alexander George Jeffrey Readman, DSO [to 1971]
vc Victoria Crosses [2nd Dragoons], by Mike Chapman (VC Reference).
vc Victoria Crosses [Royal Scots Greys], by Mike Chapman (VC Reference).
vc VCs in the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Regimental Museum, by Iain Stewart.
pip Quarter Master Sergeant John Masterson, by Fred Larimore.
pip The Story of Ensign Charles Ewart, the Hero of the Battle of Waterloo (Helpful Pub Guide, Edinburgh) [Internet Archive]
pip Ensign Charles Ewart (The Ewart Organisation)
pip Patrick O'Rourke 1917-1996, by Patrick Joseph O'Rourke.
   
   
 
Motto: Nemo me impune lacessit; Second to none
Nicknames: construction sign
Anniversaries: Waterloo (18 June)
Freedoms: construction sign
Marches: quick: Hielan' Laddie
slow: The Garb of Old Gaul (aka: 2nd Dragoons, or 7th Hussars)
other: Russian National Anthem (Alexis Lvov, 1833; played at the end of concerts in honour of the Colonel-in-Chief, 1894-1918)
Musicians: Pipes & Drums transferred 1946 from Lothians and Border Horse Yeomanry.
Mascot: construction sign
Miscellaneous Tradition Links:
Canada flag 2nd/10th Dragoons
-1946
Canada flag The New Brunswick Dragoons
-1936
Canada flag 57th Field Regiment (2nd/10th Dragoons), RCA 1946-1970
Australia flag 12th Light Horse Regiment  
Australia flag 12th/16th Hunter River Lancers
New Zealand flag The North Auckland Mounted Rifles  
New Zealand flag The New Zealand Scottish, RNZAC
 
Associated Yeomanry:  
UK flag The Ayrshire Yeomanry (Earl of Carrick's Own) 1947-1967
UK flag Queen's Own Royal Glasgow Yeomanry 1947-1956
   
 
swords [no external sites have been found]
   
   
monument Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Museum, Edinburgh (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)
monument Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Museum, Edinburgh (Simonides listing)
monument Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Museum, Edinburgh (SMHS listing)
   
   
Regimental Journal:
book The journal of The Royal Scots Greys.
Full Histories:
book Cannon, Richard. Historical record of The Royal Regiment of Scots Dragoons, now the Second Royal North British Dragoons, commonly called The Scots Greys : containing an account of the formation of the regiment in the reign of King Charles II and of its subsequent services to 1839. London : Longman, Orme ; W. Clowes, 1840. (Historical records of the British Army)
book Groves, John Percy. History of the 2nd Dragoons - the Royal Scots Greys, "Second to none", 1678-1893. Edinburgh : W. & A.K. Johnston, 1893. (Illustrated histories of Scottish regiments ; no. 2)
book Almack, Edward. The history of the Second Dragoons : "Royal Scots Greys". London : [s.n.], 1908.
book Blacklock, Michael. The Royal Scots Greys: (the 2nd Dragoons). London : Leo Cooper Ltd., 1971. (Famous regiments) ISBN: 0850520886
book Carver, Michael. Second to none; the Royal Scots Greys--1919-1945. Glasgow : Printed for the Regt. by McCorquodale, 1954.
book Wood, Stephen. In the finest tradition : the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers & Greys) : its history and treasures. Edinburgh : Mainstream Pub. Co., 1988. ISBN: 185158174X
book Maxwell, Herbert, Sir. The Lowland Scots regiments : their origin, character and services previous to the great war of 1914. Glasgow : J. Maclehose and Sons, 1918. [Contents: Introduction, by the editor.--The 2nd Dragoons, Royal Scots Greys, by Sir J. B. Paul.--The Scots Guards, by Captain C.B. Balfour.--The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment) by Major M.M. Haldane.--The Royal Scots Fusiliers, by Lieut.-Col. R. Toogood.--The King's Own Scottish Borderers, by Brigadier-General M.G. Wilkinson. Note on the origin of the K.O.S.B., by A. Ross.--The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). The 90th Perthshire Light Infantry, by A. Ross.--Scottish regiments disbanded, by A. Ross.--Regimental music (p. [331]-339)]
book Paul, William Pratt. The Lowland regiments: lions rampant. Aberdeen : Impulse Publications Ltd, 1972. ISBN: 090131126X
   
First World War:
book Pomeroy, Ralph Legge (comp.) et al. History of the Royal Scots Greys (the Second Dragoons) August, 1914--March, 1919. [London : s.n.], 1932.
   
Other Wars:
book McElligott, J. The Royal Scots Greys, South Africa 1899-1901. Edinburgh : Banks & Co. for the regiment, [ca. 1901]
   
Articles:
book Sumner, Percy. "Uniform and equipment of the Royal Scots Greys (1678-1855)," Journal of the Society for Army historical research. v. 15-17 (1936-1937), p. 115-170, 187-202.
   
Fiction:
book Grant, James. Second to none, "Royal Scots greys"; a military romance. London ; New York : G. Routledge and sons, 1865.
 
Short Histories:
book Romance of the Greys. London : Drapkin, 1910.
book Royal Scots Greys : Second to none : extracts from regimental history, 1678-1914. London : Sifton Praed & Co., 1919.
book The history and traditions of the Royal Scots Greys. [Edinburgh? : privately published for the regiment, ca. 1967]
book Grant, Charles. Royal Scots Greys. Reading : Osprey, 1972. (Men-at-arms series) ISBN: 0850450594