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The 7th (The Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards was a cavalry regiment in the British Army, first raised in 1688 as Lord Cavendish's Regiment of Horse. It was renamed as the 8th Horse in 1694 and the 7th (The Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards for Princess Charlotte in 1788.
7th Dragoon Guards. Dragoon Guards is a designation that has been used to refer to certain heavy cavalry regiments in the British Army since the 18th century. While the Prussian and Russian armies of the same period included dragoon regiments among their respective Imperial Guards, different titles were applied to these units.
The heavy cavalry consisted of twelve regiments, the 1st to 7th Dragoon Guards and the 1st to 6th Dragoons—the missing regiment was the 5th Dragoons, disbanded for mutiny in 1799 without renumbering younger regiments—while the light cavalry consisted of the 7th through 29th Light Dragoons and two regiments of German cavalry on the British ...
The 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards was a cavalry regiment of the British Army formed in 1922. It served in the Second World War.However following the reduction of forces at the end of the Cold War and proposals contained in the Options for Change paper, the regiment was amalgamated with the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards, to form the new Royal Dragoon Guards in 1992.
2nd Dragoon Guards 6th Dragoons 3/1st Essex Yeomanry 3/1st Lothians and Border Horse: Absorbed into 4th, 1917 3rd: Canterbury: 3rd Dragoon Guards 6th Dragoon Guards 3/1st Northamptonshire Yeomanry 2/1st Surrey Yeomanry 1/1st Sussex Yeomanry: Absorbed into 6th, 1917 4th: Tidworth: 4th Dragoon Guards 7th Dragoon Guards 3/1st Warwickshire Yeomanry ...
The designation "dragoon guards" was introduced in 1746 to recognise the importance of some of the most senior regiments, who rode large strong horses, without actually increasing their pay. [3] The more junior regiments, who rode lighter horses, were designated " dragoons " at that time, although some of them were subsequently re-designated ...
The First and the Last – 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards [40] First of Track 1st Royal Tank Regiment (humorous from the infantry's history being named xth of Foot) Fitch's Grenadiers – The Royal Irish Rifles [1] [3] The Five-and-threepennies – 53rd Foot [3] The Fifth Skins – 5th Inniskilling Dragoon Guards
1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards – Rusty Buckles/Radetzky March (Quick); 1st Dragoon Guards and 2nd Dragoon Guards Slow March (Slow) The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys) – The 3DGs (Quick); The Garb of Auld Gaul (Slow) The Royal Dragoon Guards – Fare Thee Well Inniskilling (Quick); 4th Dragoon Guards/7th Dragoon Guards (Slow)