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1685.07.28 |
Earl of Arran's
Regiment of Cuirassiers
formed by regimentation of troops raised earlier
in 1685 (Earl of Arran in north England; others at London, Lichfield,
Grantham, Durham, and Morpeth); ranked as 6th Horse; later
known as Duke of Hamilton's Regiment
of Cuirassiers; also known by the names of nine other colonels |
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1691 |
ranked
as 5th Horse upon disbandment of former 5th Horse |
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1746.12.25 |
ranked
as 1st Horse on Irish Establishment; also known as Blue Horse |
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1751.07.01 |
1st Regiment
of Horse |
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1788.04.01 |
4th (Royal
Irish) Dragoon Guards
transferred from Irish to British Establishment |
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1921.01.01 |
4th Royal Irish
Dragoon Guards |
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1922.10.22 |
amalgamated
with 7th Dragoon Guards (Princess Royal's),
to form 4th/7th Dragoon
Guards |
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Peninsula,
Balaklava, Sevastopol,
Tel-el-Kebir, Egypt 1882
The Great War1:
Mons,
Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914,
La Bassée 1914, Messines 1914, Armentières 1914, Ypres
1914 '15, St. Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Somme 1916
'18, Flers-Courcelette, Arras 1917, Scarpe 1917, Cambrai
1917 '18, St. Quentin, Rosières, Amiens, Albert 1918, Hindenburg
Line, Pursuit to Mons, France and Flanders 1914-18
1. awarded Sep. 1922 and amended Feb. 1925.
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1685.07.28 |
Lt-Gen. James (Hamilton), 4th Duke of Hamilton
(Earl of Arran), KG, KT [also R
Horse Gds; MGO 1712] |
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1688.11.20 |
Col. Charles (Hamilton), 2nd Earl of Selkirk |
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1688.12.31 |
Col. Charles Godfrey |
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1693.03.07 |
Lt-Gen. Francis Langston |
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1713.10.20 |
Lt-Gen. George Jocelyn |
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1715.02.09 |
Maj-Gen. Sherington Davenport |
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1719.07.06 |
Lt-Gen. Owen Wynne |
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1732.09.27 |
Lt-Gen. Thomas Pearce |
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1739.08.26 |
F.M.
James (O'Hara), 2nd Baron Tyrawley (Lord Kilmaine) [also
3 Tp HG, 2
Tp HGG, 3rd Dragoons, 14th
Dragoons, Coldstream Gds, 7th
Foot, 10th Foot; Gov. Minorca
1753, Gov. Gibraltar 1756-57] |
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1743.04.01 |
Lt-Gen. John Brown |
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1762.08.03 |
Gen. James Johnston (senior) |
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1775.04.27 |
Gen. James Johnston (junior) |
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1778.04.02 |
Gen. George Warde |
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1803.03.12 |
Lt-Gen. Miles Staveley
[also 28th Lt Dgns] |
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1814.08.03 |
Gen. Sir Henry Fane, GCB [also
1st Dgn Gds, 23rd Lt Dgns;
CinC India] |
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1827.02.24 |
Gen. Sir George Anson, GCB [also
23rd Lt Dgns; Gov R Hosp 1849] |
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1849.11.26 |
Gen. Richard Pigot |
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1868.11.22 |
Gen. Sir James Charles Chatterton, Bt.,
GCB, KH |
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1874.01.06 |
Gen. Sir Edward Cooper Hodge, GCB |
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1894.12.11 |
Lt-Gen. William Godfrey Dunham Massy, CB |
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1896.10.04 |
Lt-Gen. Sir Henry Clement Wilkinson, KCB |
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1908.11.24 |
Lt-Gen. Sir Edward Cecil Bethune, KCB, CVO
[continued 1922 in 4th/7th DG; also Hon.
Col. 4th W. Lancs Arty] |
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Motto: |
Quis separabit? |
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Marches: |
quick:
St. Patrick's Day
slow: 4th Dragoon Guards (aka: The Blue Horse) |
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Miscellaneous
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Regimental
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Full Histories:
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Cannon, Richard. Historical record
of the Fourth, or Royal Irish Regiment of Dragoon Guards : containing
an account of the formation of the regiment in 1685, and of its subsequent
services to 1838. London : Longman, Orme : Clowes, 1839. (Historical
records of the British Army) |
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Gibb, Harold. Record of the 4th Royal
Irish Dragoon Guards in the great war, 1914-1918. [s.l.
: s.n.] (Butler and Tanner, Ltd.), 1925. |
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Brereton, J.M. (John Maurice). A History
of the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards and their predecessors, 1685-1980.
Catterick : 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards, 1982. ISBN: 095083310X
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Short Histories:
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Avigdor-Goldsmid, J. A. (James Arthur) d'.
Short history of the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards, 1685-1922
: 7th (Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards, 1688-1922; 4th/7th Royal
Dragoon Guards, 1922-1939. Aldershot : Gale and Polden, 1943. |
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Avigdor-Goldsmid, J. A. (James Arthur) d'.
Short history of the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards, 1685-1922
: 7th (Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards, 1688-1922; 4th/7th Royal
Dragoon Guards, 1922-1939. Aldershot : Gale and Polden, 1949. |
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Special Topics: |
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Standing regimental orders for the
Fourth, or Royal Irish Dragoon Guards. Shrewsbury : Printed
by J. and W. Eddowes, 1797. |
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Smith, Harry S. An alphabetical list
of the officers of the Fourth (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards, from 1800
to 1856. [London?] : Longmans, 1856. |
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by A. Melville-Brown 
