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The 10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own) was a cavalry regiment of the British Army raised in 1715. It saw service for three centuries including the First World War and Second World War but then amalgamated with the 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own) to form the Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own) in October 1969.
Howard, who commanded a squadron of the 10th Hussars in Vivian's Brigade, was killed leading a charge at the very end of the Battle of Waterloo. It is likely he was the last Anglo-Allied officer to be killed. [3] He was buried at Waterloo, but on 3 August 1815 his body was disinterred and re-interred in Streatham.
Anthony Bacon formerly of the 10th Hussars [2] was a Waterloo hero who won the Waterloo Medal. In 1826, after Lord Lucan's purchase of the colonelcy of the 17th Lancers, he sold out in despair. Initially, he sent in his papers to the Duke of Wellington, but these were returned. He then sold his commission. [3]
Prince Regent's Hussars Absent from Battle (Halle) Lieutenant-Colonel Count Ferdinand Graf von Kielmansegge: 32 officers, 569 men Bremen and Verden Hussars Absent from Battle (Halle) Colonel August von dem Bussche: 35 officers, 554 men Duke of Cumberland's Hussars Lieutenant-Colonel Georg von Hake: 30 officers, 467 men 1 officer, 17 men
George Orlando Gunning, (18 December 1796 - 18 June 1815), died as a Lieutenant in the 10th Hussars at the Battle of Waterloo Rev. Sir Henry Gunning, 4th Baronet (17 December 1797 - 30 June 1885), married, firstly, Mary Catherine Cartwright, daughter of William Ralph Cartwright and secondly, Frances Rose Spencer daughter of Rev. Hon. William ...
British 10th Hussars of Vivian's Brigade (red shakos – blue uniforms) attacking mixed French troops, including a square of Guard grenadiers (left, middle distance) in the final stages of the battle To the left of the 4th Grenadiers were the two squares of the 1st/ and 2nd/3rd Chasseurs who angled further to the west and had suffered more from ...
Among the “10th Hussars” dispatched to Oman was junior intelligence officer Timothy Landon. At the time, Oman was a primitively agrarian, ultratraditional, isolationist state where slavery was ...
A simultaneous advance towards the Canal was made, on the left of Aubervilliers, by the 3rd Battalion of the 1st Pomeranian Landwehr, and the 10th Hussars Regiment; which maintained the communication with the I Corps. A sharp tiraillade took place, which terminated in the withdrawal of the Prussian troops to their former position. [68]