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The Royal Scots Greys was a cavalry regiment of the Army of Scotland that became a regiment of the British Army in 1707 upon the Union of Scotland and England, continuing until 1971 when they amalgamated with the 3rd Carabiniers (Prince of Wales's Dragoon Guards) to form the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards.
The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards were formed on 2 July 1971 at Holyrood, Edinburgh, by the amalgamation of the 3rd Carabiniers (Prince of Wales's Dragoon Guards) (themselves the product of the amalgamation in 1922 of 3rd Dragoon Guards (Prince of Wales's) and 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)), and The Royal Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons). [4]
The Grey Dragoons – 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys) [3] The Grey Lancers – 21st Lancers (Empress of India's) [1] [3] (from French-grey colour of regimental facings) The Grey Mafia – Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps; The Guards of the Line – 29th Foot [3] Guise's Geese – Royal Warwickshire Regiment [1] [3] [10]
The remaining two regular cavalry regiments were based in Palestine, and following the outbreak of war retained their horses until 1940 (the Royal Dragoons) and 1941 (the Royal Scots Greys). Following mechanisation, the few remaining distinctions of unit type became meaningless; cavalry regiments moved between the heavy and light armoured roles ...
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.
1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards: 2 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) 1685 [9] 1959: 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards: 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards: 3 3rd (Prince Of Wales's) Dragoon Guards: 1685 [10] 1922: 3rd/6th Dragoon Guards: Royal Scots Dragoon Guards: 4 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards: 1685 [11] 1922: 4th/7th Dragoon Guards: Royal Dragoon ...
Another three were added to make The Royal Regiment of Scots Dragoons in 1681, by which point they were already mounted on grey horses that would give them their name of the Royal Scots Greys. [11] On the eve of the Glorious Revolution the standing army in Scotland was about 3,000 men in various regiments and another 268 veterans in the major ...
The 2nd Dragoons or 2nd Dragoon Regiment may refer to: 2nd Dragoons, a British regiment usually known as the Royal Scots Greys; 2nd Dragoons (Canada), a Canadian regiment that amalgamated into the 2nd/10th Dragoons; 2nd Dragoon Regiment (Denmark) 2nd Dragoon Regiment (France) 2nd Cavalry Regiment (United States), also known as the 2nd Dragoons