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26th (23rd) Light
Dragoons [1795-1819, 1941-1943] |
crest and tie
by A. Melville-Brown
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| 1795.03.25 | 26th Regiment
of (Light) Dragoons formed in West Indies from nucleus (100 men) of 3rd Dragoons |
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| 1803.01 | 23rd Regiment
of (Light) Dragoons renumbered after disbandment of 22nd LD, 23rd LD and 24th LD |
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| 1816.09.30 | 23rd Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Lancers) | |
| 1819 | disbanded | |
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| 1941.02.01 | 26th Hussars formed at Meerut from a cadre of 14th/20th Hussars (no lineal connection to previous regiments with the same number) |
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| 1943.10.31 | disbanded at Bolarum | |
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Talavera, Peninsula, Egypt1, Waterloo The Second World War: [none] 1. the Sphinx badge, awarded to 23rd LD [1803-1819]; not inherited by 1941 regiment. |
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| Uniform: | 1794: dark
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| 1795.03.25 | Gen. Russell Manners [also 19th Lt Dgns, 86th Foot] | |
| 1800.09.11 | Gen. Sir John Floyd, Bt. [also 8th Lt Dgns] | |
| 1804.09.13 | Gen. William Cartwright [also 1st Dgn Gds, 3rd Dgns] | |
| 1807.11.18 | Gen. Sir William Payne, Bt. [also 3rd Dgn Gds, 12th Lancers, 19th Lt Dgns] | |
| 1814.07.13 | Gen. Sir Henry Fane, GCB [also 1st Dgn Gds, 4th Dgn Gds; CinC India] | |
| 1814.08.03 | Gen. Sir George Anson, GCB [to 1819?; also 4th Dgn Gds; Gov R Hosp 1849] | |
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