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Graham Watson, T.F. Mills
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Page created 1 March 2001
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Corrected and updated
06.11.2005
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7th Queen's Own Hussars
1690-1958
United Kingdom
Note:
This is a battalion history of the Regular Army. See the main regimental page for full lineage and other information.
Colour Key
Lineage
War service
Overseas service
Home service
1689.05
independent troops formed in Scotland
1689
Scotland
: Jacobite war
1689
Scotland?
1690.12.30
The Queen's Own Regiment of Dragoons
formed in Scotland by regimentation of independent troops
1694
Flanders
1698
England
1702
England?
1710
Flanders
1712
England?
1714
England
1714.04.16
disbanded
(personnel to
1st Dragoons
and
2nd Dragoons
)
1715.02.15
The Princess of Wales's Own Regiment of Dragoons
re-formed
from troops of
1st Dragoons
and
2nd Dragoons
1715
Scotland:
Jacobite war
1715
Scotland?
1742
Flanders
1748
UK?
1751.07.01
7th (The Queen's Own) Regiment of Dragoons
1751
UK?
1755
light ("hussar") troop formed
1756
England
1758.06.05
French coast
: St. Malo (Lt Tp)
1758.06.07
at sea
several raids on French coast aborted
1758.07.01
England: Portsmouth
1758.08.08
French coast
: Cherbourg (Lt Tp)
1758.09
England
1759
Germany
1762
England?
1763
England?
1763?
light toop disbanded
1764
England?
1783
7th (The Queen's Own) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
1794
Flanders
1795
Germany
1799
Holland
: Helder campaign
1799
England?
1802
England?
1806
equipped as hussars
1806
England?
1807.12.25
7th (The Queen's Own) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Hussars)
1808
at sea
1808.11
Spain: Corunna
1808
Peninsular war
1809.01.16
at sea (embarked at
Corunna)
1809
England
1813.08
at sea
1813.09.01
Spain: Bilbao
1813
Peninsular war
1814.05
France
1814.07
England
1815.03
Belgium
1815
Waterloo campaign
5 Cav Bde
1815
France: Paris
Army of Occupation
1816.08?
at sea (embarked at
Calais)
1816
England
1838
Canada
1839
Canada
1842
UK
1857
India
1857
Sepoy rebellion
1858
India
1861.08.17
7th (The Queen's Own) Hussars
1870
UK
1881
Natal
1881
South Africa
: Natal
1882
England: Aldershot
1885
Hounslow
1886.11.26
at sea
1887
India: Secunderbad
1892
Mhow
1895
Natal
1896
Matabeleland
(2 sqns)
1897
Mashonaland
1896?
Natal
1898.12
England: Norwich
1901.11.30
at sea
ship:
Manchester Merchant
1901.12
South Africa
1902
South Africa
1905
England: Norwich
1909
Aldershot
1910
Hounslow
1911
India: Bangalore
1914.08
India
1917.11.23
Mesopotamia
11 Ind Cav Bde
1920.12
India: Mhow
1921.01.01
7th Queen's Own Hussars
1923.09
Scotland: Edinburgh
1925
England: Tidworth
1929
Colchester
1931
Aldershot
1933
Hounslow
1935.09
Egypt: Cairo
1939.09
Egypt
1940?
mechanised
1940.04
Middle East
4 Armd Bde, 7 Armd Div
1941.07
Middle East
7 Armd Bde
1942.02
Burma
1942.05
India
1942.10
Persia
1943.05
Middle East
recce regt, 10 Armd Div
1944.10
Italy
9 Armd Bde
1945.07
Austria
1946
UK
(TA Trg)
1949
Germany
BAOR
1954
UK
1955
Hong Kong
1957.06
UK
1958.11.03
amalgamated at Tidworth with
3rd The King's Own Hussars
, to form
The Queen's Own Hussars