Authors and Contributors this page: Graham Watson, T.F. Mills
Page created 1 March 2001. Corrected and updated 06.11.2005
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.
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  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