THE ROYAL DRAGOONS (1st DRAGOONS) |
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| History | Raised in 1661 as the Tangier Troop of Horse (The Royal Regiment of Dragoons in 1690). | |||||
| MOTTO: Spectemur agendo (Let us be judged by our actions). | ||||||
| Emblazoned Battle | Defence of Tangier (1662-80): Tangier 1662-80. | |||||
| Honours | War of Austrian Succession (1740-8): Dettingen. | |||||
| Seven Years War (1756-63): Warburg. | ||||||
| French Revolutionary Wars (1793-1802): Beaumont; Willems. | ||||||
| Peninsular War (1808-14): Fuentes d'Onor; Peninsula. | ||||||
| Hundred Days (1815): Waterloo. | ||||||
| Crimean War (1854-5): Balaklava; Sevastopol. | ||||||
| South African War (1899-1902): Relief of Ladysmith; South Africa 1899-1902. | ||||||
| Great War: Ypres 1914, 1915; Frezenberg; Loos; Arras 1917; Somme 1918; Amiens; Hindenburg Line; Cambrai 1918; Pursuit to Mons; France and Flanders 1914-18. | ||||||
| Second World War: Nederrijn; Rhine; North-West Europe 1944-5; Syria 1941; Knightsbridge; El Alamein; Advance on Tripoli; North Africa 1941-3; Sicily 1943; Italy 1943. | ||||||
| Accredited Battle | Great War: Langemarck 1914; Gheluvelt; Nonne Bosschen; Scarpe 1917; St Quentin, Avre; Beaurevoir. | |||||
| Honours | Second World War: Veghel; Msus; Gazala; Defence of Alamein Line; El Agheila. | |||||
| Awards | Second Lieutenant J. S. Dunville (1896-1917) was awarded the Victoria Cross near Ep6hy, France, 24/25 June 1917: gazetted posthumously 2 August 1917. | |||||
| Marches | Quick and slow: The Royals. | |||||
| Museum | Household Cavalry Museum, Combermere Barracks, St Leonard’s Rd, Windsor, Berkshire (tel 0753 868222 ext 203): open Monday-Friday 10001300, 1400-1700. |