Authors and Contributors this page: Graham Watson, T.F. Mills
Page created 15 July 2002. Corrected and updated 23.09.2005
1715-1969
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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  1715.07.22 Philip Honeywood's Regiment of Dragoons
raised in Essex and adjoining counties
  1715 Lancashire: Jacobite war
  1715 England?
  1743 England
  1745 Scotland: Jacobite war
  1746? England?
  1748 England?
  1751.07.01 11th 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? light toop disbanded
  1763? England
  1779.02.25 light toop detached as nucleus to form 19th Light Dragoons
  1779 England  
  1783 11th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
  1794 Flanders (two sqns) West Indies (det)
  1796 England
  1799 Holland: Helder campaign (two sqns)
  1801 Egypt (det)
  1802? England?
  1803 England?
  1805.12 at sea
  1805.12 Hanover
  1806.01 North Germany
  1806.02.15 at sea
  1806.02 England
  1811.05.04 at sea  
  1811 Portugal?
  1811 Peninsular war
  1813 at sea (embarked at Lisbon)  
  1813 England
  1814 England
  1815.04 at sea
  1815.04 Belgium: Ostend
  1815.06 Waterloo campaign
  1815.07.02 France: Paris Army of Occupation
  1811.11 at sea (embarked at Calais?)  
  1818.11 England
  1819 India
  1825 Jat War
  1826 India
  1838 England
  1840.03.13 11th (Prince Albert's Own) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Hussars)
  1843 Ireland
  1846 England
  1852 Ireland
  1854.05 at sea (embarked at Kingston) ships: Glendalough, Asia, War Cloud, Parameter, Tyrone, Penola
  1854.06 Bulgaria: Varna  
  1854 Bulgaria
  1854.09. at sea  
  1854.09.16 Crimea: Kalmatia Bay  
  1854 Crimea Light Bde
  1856.06 at sea
  1856.07.28 England  
  1858.07.30 Aldershot  
  1861 Ireland  
  1865 England  
  1866.07.25 at sea ships: Agamemnon, Renown
  1866.10.25 India: Bengal  
  1878 England  
  <1881> England: Hounslow
  1883 Ireland: Ballincollig
  1887 Dublin
1889 England  
1890.07.22 at sea  
  1890 South Africa
  1892 India: Sialkot
  1897 Peshawar
  1897 Punjab Frontier
  1899 Egypt
  1903 Ireland: Curragh
  1906 Dublin
  1908 England: Shorncliffe
  1911 Aldershot
  1914.08.14 France and Flanders 1 Cav Bde, 1 Cav Div, BEF
  1919.07.20 Egypt  
  1921.01.01 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own)
  1921.10.12 India: Meerut
  1923 Risalpur
  1925.12.29 at sea  
  1925 England: Shorncliffe
  1927 Aldershot 1 Cav Bde
  1928.14.10 mechanised at Bovington (the first regular regiment to do so) with armoured cars from No. 12 Armd Car Coy RTC (completed 31 Mar. 1929)
  1930 Tidworth
  1934 Egypt
  1936? Palestine  
  1939.09 Middle East 7 Armd Bde
  1940.04 Middle East recce regt, 7 Armd Div
  1942.07 4 Armd Bde
  1942.11 Middle East 7 Armd Div
  1943.09 Italy
  1943.11 UK XXX Corps Troops
  1944.06 NW Europe
  1944.12 NW Europe 7 Armd Div
  1945.05 Germany: Wesendorf 7 Armd Div
  1948 [C Sqn - Berlin]
  1949 Wesendorf 7 Armd Div
  1953.07 Malaya
  1956.08 England: Carlisle recce training regt
  1959.08 Northern Ireland: Omagh
1960.09 Aden (one sqn Sharjah & one troop in Oman)
1961.06 Kuwait  
  1961.11 England: Tidworth
  1962.09 Germany: Hohne 7 Armd Bde
  1969.01 England: Tidworth
  1969.10.25 amalgamated with 10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own), to form The Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own)