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2. 7th Dragoon Guards - Wikipedia

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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.

3. 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards - Wikipedia

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   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.

4. Ian Gordon Gill - Wikipedia

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   Educated at Repton School, Gill was commissioned into the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards in 1938 and fought in World War II at the Dunkirk evacuation and in the Normandy landings and then in North West Europe. [1] After the war he served in Palestine during the Palestine Emergency and in 1957 became Commanding Officer of 4th/7th Royal Dragoon ...

5. List of Regiments of Cavalry of the British Army - Wikipedia

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   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 Guards: 5 5th (Princess Charlotte ...

6. Dragoon Guards - Wikipedia

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   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.

7. John Mostyn (British Army officer) - Wikipedia

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   From 1751 to 1754 he held the colonelcy of the 7th Regiment of Foot (Royal Fuzileers), from 1754 to 1758 that of the 13th Regiment of Dragoons, from 1758 to 1760 that of the 5th (or Royal Irish) Regiment of Dragoons, [2] from 1760 to 1763 that of the 7th (The Queens Own) Regiment of Dragoons and from 1763 to 1779 that of the 1st King's Dragoon ...

8. List of nicknames of British Army regiments - Wikipedia

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   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

9. Royal Dragoon Guards - Wikipedia

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   The Royal Dragoon Guards (RDG) is a cavalry regiment of the British Army.It was formed in 1992 by the amalgamation of two other regiments: The 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards and the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards.