Authors and Contributors this page: Graham Watson, T.F. Mills
Page created 1 March 2001. Corrected and updated 03.03.2005
1678-1971
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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  1678 independent troops raised in Scotland
  1678 Scotland
  1681.11.25 Royal Regiment of Scots Dragoons
  1691 Flanders
  1698 Scotland
  1702 Flanders & Germany
  1713 England
  1715 Scotland: Jacobite war  
  1715? England?  
  1743 Flanders
  1748 England
  1751.07.01 2nd (Royal North British) Regiment of Dragoons
  1751 England?
  1756? light toop 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  
  1763 England
  1763 light toop disbanded
  1793 Holland (4 troops)
  1795 England
  1802 England
  1803 England
  1814 England
  1815.04 Belgium: Ostend
  1815 Waterloo 2 Cav Bde
  1815.07 France: Paris Army of Occupation
  1816.01.10 at sea (embarked at Calais)  
  1816.01.12 England: Dover & Ramsgate  
  1816 England
  1854 Crimea Heavy Bde
  1856 England
  1856 Ireland
  1861 Scotland
  1863 England
  1866 2nd (Royal North British) Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys)
  1871 Scotland
  1873 England
  1878 Ireland: Ballincollig
  1883 Scotland: Edinburgh
  1885 England: Aldershot
  1888 Ireland: Dundalk
  1891 Newbridge
  1893 England: Aldershot
  1895 Hounslow
  1897 Scotland: Edinburgh
  1899.11.05 at sea ships: British Princess, Ranee, ?
  1899.12 South Africa 1 Cav Bde
    South Africa 2 Cav Bde
  1903 England: Norwich
  1905 Tidworth
  1906 Scotland: Edinburgh
  1910 England: York
  1914.08 France and Flanders 5 Cav Bde, 2 Cav Div
  1919 Scotland: Edinburgh
  1919 Palestine & Egypt
  1921.01.01 The Royal Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons)
  1922 India: Risalpur
  1924 Meerut
  1925 Scotland: Edinburgh
  1929 England: Tidworth 2 Cav Bde
  1933 Scotland: Edinburgh
  1935 England: Aldershot 1 Cav Bde
  1937 Hounslow 1 Div
  1938 Palestine
  1939.09 Palestine  
  1941.03 Palestine 6 Cav Bde
  1941.03 last mounted parade (C Sqn at Nablus)  
  1941.06 Syria  
  1941.08 Middle East 8 Armd Bde, 10 Armd Div
  1941.11.09 mechanised (last regular cavalry to do so)
  1942.09 North Africa 4 Armd Bde
  1942.11 Middle East 8th Army Troops
  1944.01 UK 4 Armd Bde
  1944.06 North West Europe
  1945.04 North West Europe 21st Army Group Troops
  1945.06 Germany 31 Armd Bde, 79 Armd Div
  1945 Germany: Lüneburg BAOR
  1952.04 Libya
  1955 England: Church Crookham
  1956 Catterick
  1958.10 Germany: Münster 5 Bde
  1960 Münster ?
  1962.10 Middle East & Far East
  1964.02 Germany: Fallingbostel 11 Bde
  1969.01 Scotland: Edinburgh
1970 Cyprus
  1971? Scotland: Edinburgh
  1971.07.02 amalgamated at Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, with 3rd Carabiniers (Prince of Wales's Dragoon Guards), to form The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys)