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created 1 August 2000. Corrected and updated
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1685.08.02 |
Duke of Somerset's
Regiment of Dragoons
formed from independent troops raised earlier in
1685 (in Berkshire, Hertfordshire, Middlesex and Essex); ranked as
3rd Dragoons; also known until 1751 by the names of other colonels |
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1694 |
The Queen Consort's
Own Regiment of Dragoons
(named for Queen
Mary) |
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1714 |
The King's
Regiment of Dragoons
(re-named for King
George I) |
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1751.07.01 |
3rd (King's
Own) Regiment of Dragoons |
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1795.03.25 |
nucleus
(100 men) detached to form 26th Light Dragoons |
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1818 |
3rd (The King's
Own) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons |
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1861.08.17 |
3rd (The King's
Own) Hussars |
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3rd (King's
Own) Hussars |
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1921.01.01 |
3rd The King's
Own Hussars |
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1935 |
one
sqn mechanised (motor cavalry) |
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1936 |
converted
to armoured cars |
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1939.04 |
transferred
to Royal Armoured Corps |
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1958.11.03 |
amalgamated
with 7th Queen's Own Hussars,
to form The Queen's Own
Hussars |
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Dettingen,
Salamanca, Vittoria,
Toulouse, Peninsula, Cabool
1842, Moodkee, Ferozeshah,
Sobraon, Chillianwallah,
Goojerat, Punjaub, South
Africa 1902
The Great War: Mons,
Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne
1914, Messines 1914, Armentières 1914, Ypres
1914 '15, Gheluvelt, St. Julien, Bellewaarde, Arras 1917,
Scarpe 1917, Cambrai 1917 '18, Somme 1918, St. Quentin,
Lys, Hazebrouck, Amiens, Bapaume 1918, Hindenburg Line, Canal
du Nord, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18
The Second World War: Sidi
Barrani, Buq Buq, Beda Fomm, Sidi Suleiman, El Alamein, North Africa
1940-42, Citta della Pieve,
Citta di Castello, Italy 1944, Crete
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Badges: |
The White Horse
of Hanover within the Garter superscribed 'NEC ASPERA TERRENT' and
subscribed 'THE KING'S OWN HUSSARS' surmounted by the Crown. |
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1685.08.02 |
Brig-Gen. Charles (Seymour), 6th Duke of
Somerset, KG |
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1687.08.02 |
Col. Calexander Cannon |
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1688.12.31 |
Maj-Gen. Richard Leveson |
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1694.01.20 |
Col. Thomas (Fairfax), 5th Lord Fairfax |
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1695.02.21 |
Maj-Gen. William Lloyd |
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1703.12.31 |
Lt-Gen. George (Carpenter), 1st Lord Carpenter |
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1732.05.29 |
Gen. Sir Philip Honywood, KB |
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1743.04.18 |
Lt-Gen. Humphrey Bland |
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1752.07.08 |
F.M.
James (O'Hara), 2nd Lord Tyrawley, (Lord Kilmaine) [also
3 Tp HG, 2
Tp HGG, 5th Horse, 14th
Dragoons, Coldstream Gds, 7th
Foot, 10th Foot; Gov. Minorca
1753, Gov. Gibraltar 1756-57] |
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1755.04.08 |
Lt-Gen. George (Keppel), 3rd Lord Albemarle,
KG (Viscount Bury) |
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1772.10.20 |
Gen. Charles (Fitzroy), 1st Baron Southampton
[also 14th Light Dgns, 119th
Foot] |
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1797.03.23 |
Gen. Francis Lascelles |
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1799.09.04 |
Gen. Charles (Grey), 1st Earl Grey, KB [also
7th Dgn Gds, 8th Dgns,
20th Lt Dgns, 28th
Foot, 98th Foot] |
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1807.11.18 |
Gen. William Cartwright [also
1st Dgn Gds, 23rd Lt Dgns] |
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1821.01.25 |
F.M.
Sir Stapleton (Cotton), Bt., 1st Viscount Combermere, GCB, GCH, KSI
[also 1st Life Gds
, 20th Lt Dgns] |
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1829.09.16 |
Lt-Gen. Lord George Thomas Beresford, GCH |
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1839.11.08 |
Gen. Lord Charles Henry Somerset Manners,
KCB |
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1855.05.26 |
Gen. Peter Augustus Latour, CB, KH |
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1866.01.12 |
Gen. Henry Aitchison Hankey |
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1872.01.01 |
Gen. Sir George Henry Lockwood, KCB |
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1884.04.16 |
Lt-Gen. Sir Frederick Wellington John FitzWygram,
Bt. |
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1891.04.19 |
Lt-Gen. Edward Burgoyne Cuerton |
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1891.09.23 |
Lt-Gen. Edward Howard-Vyse |
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1909.01.27 |
Maj-Gen. Richard Blundell-Hollinshed-Blundell |
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1912.05.03 |
F.M.
Sir Julian Hedworth George (Byng), 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, GCB,
GCMG, MVO |
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1924.01.22 |
Maj-Gen. Alfred Alexander Kennedy, CB, CMG |
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1926.04.01 |
Brig-Gen. Philip James Vandeleur Kelly,
CMG, DSO |
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1946.05.01 |
Brig. George Edward Younghusband, CBE |
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1955.05.01 |
Lt-Col. (Hon. Col.) Sir Douglas Winchester
Scott, Bt. [to 1958; continued 1962 in QO
Hussars] |
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Motto: |
Nec aspera terrent |
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Nicknames: |
The Moodkee Wallahs;
Lord Adam Gordon's Life Guards |
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Anniversaries: |
Dettingen
(27 June), El Alamein
(2 Nov.) |
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Freedoms: |
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Marches: |
quick:
Robert the Devil (Giacomo Meyerbeer, arr. 1952 Stephen Baker)
slow (ca. 1880): The Third Hussars Slow March (anon.) |
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Miscellaneous
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Regimental
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3rd The King's Own Hussars regimental
journal. |
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The Third Hussars Old Comrades' journal. |
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Full Histories:
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Bolitho, H. The Galloping Third :
the story of the 3rd King's Own Hussars. John Murray, 1962. |
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Short Histories:
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by A. Melville-Brown 
