Authors and Contributors this page: Graham Watson, T.F. Mills
Page created 10 October 2002. Corrected and updated 20.11.2004
1858-1922
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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  1858 2nd Bengal European Light Cavalry
1858 Sepoy rebellion
  1858.07.03 transferred from EIC to Crown control
1858 India
  <1859> Meerut  
  <1861.05> Muttra  
1862.09.30 20th Regiment of Hussars
transferred to British Army
  1863.10 Umbeyla Expedition Yusafzai Field Force
  1864.01 India
  1867 Black Mountain Expedition Hazara Field Force
  1868 Ambala  
  1872.10 at sea
  1872 England  
<1874> Aldershot  
1877 20th Hussars
  1879.11 Ireland: Cahir
  1884.08 England: Aldershot
  1884 Egypt
  1885 Sudan (4 troops) Egypt (1 troop in Lt Camel Regt)
1887.11.19 England Egypt (det in Egyptian Frontier Force)
  1887 England: Norwich (wing) Egypt (det in Egyptian Frontier Force)
  1888 Norwich (wing) Sudan (det in Egyptian Frontier Force)
  1889 Norwich (regt reunited)  
  1890 Aldershot
  1893 Colchester
  1895 at sea  
  1896 India: Mhow
  1901 at sea (embark at Bombay)  
  1901.12 South Africa
  1902 Egypt
  1904 England: Brighton
  1906 Shorncliffe
  1908 Ireland: Curragh
  1911 England: Colchester
  1914.08 France and Flanders 5 Cav Bde, 2 Cav Div, BEF
  1919 Palestine
1921.07 disbanded
  1922.10.01 squadron reconstituted and concurrently amalgamated with 14th Kings Hussars, to form 14th/20th Hussars