Household Cavalry Regiment [UK]

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Page created 15 July 2000. Corrected and updated 15.07.2006

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	Household Cavalry Regiment
	United Kingdom

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History

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Colours, Standards & Guidons

Uniforms & Badges

Colonels-in-Chief

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	*Note:*	"Household Cavalry" is also a collective term for all its component regiments [q.v.]


	1882	Household Cavalry Composite Regiment formed from 1st Life Guards, 2nd Life Guards, and Royal Horse Guards
	1882	disbanded

	1899.11	Household Cavalry Composite Regiment formed from 1st Life Guards, 2nd Life Guards, and Royal Horse Guards
	1900.12	disbanded

	1914.08	Household Cavalry Composite Regiment formed with a squadron each from 1st Life Guards, 2nd Life Guards, and Royal Horse Guards
	1914.11.11	disbanded, and squadrons returned to parent regiments

	1916.09.01	The Household Battalion formed as infantry from personnel of reserve regiments of 1st Life Guards, 2nd Life Guards, and Royal Horse Guards
	1918.02.10	disbanded

	1939.09.01	The Life Guards, and Royal Horse Guards reorganised as:
		Household Cavalry Composite Regiment Household Cavalry Training Regiment
	1940.11.19	composite regiments reorganised:
		1st Household Cavalry Regiment 2nd Household Cavalry Regiment
	1945.07	both regiments disbanded and personnel reconstituted The Life Guards, and Royal Horse Guards

	1992.10.19	Household Cavalry Regiment formed by union of The Life Guards, and The Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons), with squadrons retaining former regimental identities


		Household Cavalry (Regimental site)


	Household Cavalry Composite Regiment [1882]
	Household Cavalry Composite Regiment [1899-1900]
	Household Cavalry Composite Regiment [1914]
	Household Cavalry Composite Regiment, by Chris Baker (The British Army in the Great War) British Cavalry Regiments, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath 1914-1918)
	The Household Battalion [1916-1918]
	The Household Battalion, by Chris Baker (The British Army in the Great War) The Household Battalion, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath 1914-1918)
	Reserve Household Battalion [1916-1918]
	1st Household Cavalry Regiment [1940-1945]
	2nd Household Cavalry Regiment [1940-1945]:

1939.09.01	formed in London as Household Cavalry Training Regiment from personnel of The Life Guards and Royal Horse Guards
1940.11.19	redesignated as 2nd Household Cavalry Regiment
1940.11.	UK	motor bn
1941.09	UK	Gds Armd Div
1944.06	NW Europe	Gds Armd Div
1945.06	Germany	Gds Div
1945.07	disbanded

	Household Cavalry Regiment [1992-present]


	The Great War: [battle honours for the Household Cavalry Composite Regiment and the Household Battalion awarded jointly to 1st Life Guards, 2nd Life Guards, and Royal Horse Guards] The Second World War¹: Mont Pincon, Souleuvre, Noireau Crossing, Amiens 1944, Brussels, Neerpelt, Nederrijn, Nijmegen, Lingen, Bentheim, North-West Europe 1944-45, Baghdad 1941, Iraq 1941, Palmyra, Syria 1941, El Alamein, North Africa 1942-43, Arezzo, Advance to Florence, Gothic Line, Italy 1944 1. Awarded 1956 to The Life Guards, and Royal Horse Guards, for services of 1st and 2nd Household Cavalry Regiments. Note: After the 1992 union, battle honours continued to awarded separately to The Life Guards, and The Blues and Royals


		Speech given by The Queen at the presentation of standards to the Household Cavalry, 21 May 2003, by Geraldine Voost (The Unofficial British Royal Family Pages)

Badges:

In 1992 squadrons retained all badges of their parent regiments.

Uniform:

In 1992 squadrons retained all uniform details of their parent regiments.


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	Household Cavalry Bands (Regimental site)
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	*Miscellaneous Tradition Links:*
	Ceremonial Duties (Regimental site)


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*Associated Yeomanry:*
	The Berkshire Yeomanry	1984?-1999
	Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry
	Inns of Court and City Yeomanry
	The Cheshire Yeomanry (Earl of Chester's)	1999?-present


		Old Comrades Bulletin Board (Regimental site)


		The Household Cavalry Museum, Windsor (Regimental site)
		The Household Cavalry Museum, Windsor (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)
		The Household Cavalry Museum, Windsor (Simonides listing)


	Regimental Journal:
		*The Brigade of Guards' Magazine*. Vol. 1. no. 1 (Jan. 1888)-v. 10. no. 20 (Dec. 1897).
		*The Household Brigade Magazine*. Jan. 1898-Spring 1968.
		*The Guards Magazine*. Summer 1968-

	Full Histories:
		Watson, J. N. P. (John N. P.). *Through fifteen reigns : a complete history of the Household Cavalry*. Staplehurst : Spellmount, 1997. ISBN: 1873376707

	Second World War:
		Wyndham, Humphrey. The Household Cavalry at war: First Household Cavalry Regiment. Aldershot : Gale & Polden, 1952.
		Orde, Roden. *The Household Cavalry at war: Second Household Cavalry Regiment*. Aldershot : Gale & Polden, 1953.

	Special Topics:
		Dunstan, Simon. The Guards : Britain's Household Division. London : Windrow & Greene, 1996. (Europea militaria ; no. 20) ISBN 1859150624