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Uniform of the 14th Light Dragoons, 1847 Carte-de-Visite of a lieutenant in the 14th (King's) Hussars. Maull & Co. Studios, London, 1867. The regiment was renamed in July 1830, to mark the coronation of William IV as the 14th (The King's) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons, [2] and it took part in the suppression of the Bristol riots in October 1831. [30]
14th Light Dragoons: 1 April 1858: Indian Mutiny: Betwa [29] John Malcolmson: 3rd Bombay Light Cavalry: 8 February 1857: Anglo-Persian War: Khoosh-ab: Joseph Malone: 13th Light Dragoons: 25 October 1854: Crimean War: Balaclava [50] William Marshall: 19th (Alexandra Princess of Wales's Own) Hussars: 29 February 1884: Mahdist War: El Teb [51 ...
One of his British cavalry regiments, the 14th Light Dragoons, routed. The Sikhs followed up the fleeing cavalry and captured four guns. They then attacked Gilbert's right-hand infantry brigade, commanded by Brigadier Godby, from the rear, forcing him to withdraw under heavy pressure until Penney's reserve brigade came to his aid.
George Carter Stent was born into a family of modest means in Canterbury in 1833. [1] He was the second son of James Stent, of 2 King's Bridge, Canterbury. [2] Shortly after his twentieth birthday he joined the British Army as a soldier of the 14th (King's Light) Dragoons and proceeded with the regiment to India, where in the 1850s he witnessed and later wrote about the Great Mutiny. [3]
British Indian Army: Battles / wars: Indian Mutiny Second Anglo-Afghan War. Battle of Ahmed Khel; Awards: Victoria Cross ... C.B., of the 14th Light Dragoons. [1]
Map showing the Indian Princely states during the rebellion of 1857 The Victoria Cross (VC) was introduced in Great Britain on 29 January 1856 by Queen Victoria to reward acts of valour during the Crimean War. For the Indian Mutiny (also known as India's First War of Independence, Revolt of 1857, or the Sepoy Mutiny) the VC was awarded to 182 members of the British Armed Forces, the Honourable ...
The Indian Mutiny was over and in May 1859, the 3rd Bombay European Regiment moved to Mhow, where they learned that the Crown had assumed responsibility of the HEIC and its armies. They were given the choice of either submitting to the Queen's service or be returned to England.
The Commanding Officer of the 14th Light Dragoons, Colonel William Havelock, led another charge, apparently without orders. [6] He and his leading troopers were surrounded and cut down. After a third charge failed, Brigadier Charles Robert Cureton , the commander of the cavalry division to which the troops belonged, galloped up and ordered a ...