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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.
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.
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 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 .
Royal Horse Artillery – Bonnie Dundee (Gallop); Keel Row (Trot); The Duchess of Kent (walk) Royal Armoured Corps. 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 ...
1st Life Guards; 2nd Life Guards; Royal Horse Guards; 1st (King's) Dragoon Guards; 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) 3rd (Prince of Wales's) Dragoon Guards; 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards; 5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Dragoon Guards; 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers) 7th (Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards; 1st (Royal) Dragoons; 2nd ...
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.
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 ...