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The 20th Hussars was a cavalry regiment of the British Army. After service in the First World War it was amalgamated with the 14th King's Hussars to form the 14th/20th King's Hussars in 1922. History
Lieutenant Colonel Victor Harry [3] Jones OBE (b. 1898 [1]) was a British intelligence officer and "visual deception" expert during the Second World War. First serving with the 14th/20th King's Hussars in the First World War, he made a name for himself during the North African campaign of the Second World War by using dummy tanks (and other fake vehicles) to mislead the enemy.
Juni, West Berlin, 18 June 1989 C Squadron 14th/20th Kings Hussars, West Berlin 1989. The 14th/20th King's Hussars was a cavalry regiment of the British Army. It was created by the amalgamation of the 14th King's Hussars and the 20th Hussars in 1922 and, after service in the Second World War, it amalgamated with the Royal Hussars to become the ...
20th Light Dragoons, Jamaica Dragoons, raised in 1795, and seeing service in the Second Maroon War, the British invasions of the River Plate and the Peninsular War before being disbanded 1818; The former 2nd Bengal European Cavalry of the East India Company service, transferred to the British Army in 1862, and redesignated as the 20th Hussars in
The barracks were built as a training base for the Royal Artillery and were completed in 1861. [1] The barracks were reallocated for wider military use in 1906 and during the First World War they served as the 3rd cavalry depot providing accommodation for the 10th Royal Hussars, the 14th King's Hussars, the 18th Royal Hussars and the 20th Hussars. [2]
He entered the 20th Hussars, but later transferred to the 3rd The King's Own Hussars in 1921. [5] The regiment was stationed in Constantinople, where Tudor reportedly met Larissa Haouk, who was reportedly working as a belly dancer in a Constantinople nightclub, and in 1923 he married her against the wishes of the colonel of his regiment.
This is a list of British Army cavalry and infantry regiments that were created by Childers reforms in 1881, a continuation of the Cardwell reforms.It also indicates the cavalry amalgamations that would take place forty years later as part of the Government cuts of the early 1920s.
The Queen's Royal Hussars (The Queen's Own and Royal Irish) 1993: 3rd Hussars, 4th Hussars, 7th Hussars, 8th Hussars: The Royal Lancers (Queen Elizabeth's Own) [note 3] 2015: 9th Lancers, 12th Lancers, 16th Lancers, 17th Lancers, 5th Lancers, 21st Lancers: The King's Royal Hussars: 1992: 10th Hussars, 11th Hussars, 14th Hussars, 20th Hussars ...