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THE BLUES AND ROYALS (ROYAL HORSE GUARDS AND 1st DRAGOONS) Colonel-in-Chief: HM The Queen |
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| History | Formed in 1969 by the amalgamation of The Royal Horse Guards (The Blues) and The Royal Dragoons (1st Dragoons). | |||||
| MOTTO: Honi soit qui mal y pense (Evil be to him who evil thinks). | ||||||
| HEADQUARTERS: Horse Guards, Whitehall, London. | ||||||
| RECRUITMENT AREA: Nationwide. | ||||||
| REGIMENTAL ANNIVERSARY: Waterloo Day (18 June) | ||||||
| Emblazoned Battle | Defence of Tangier (1662-80): Tangier 1662-80. | |||||
| Honours | War of Austrian Succession (1740-8): Dettingen; 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. | ||||||
| Revolt of Arabi Pasha (1882): Tel-el-Kebir. | ||||||
| First Sudan War (1882-4): Egypt 1882. | ||||||
| South African War (1899-1902): Relief of Kimberley; Paardeburg; Relief of Ladysmith; South Africa 1899-1902. Great War: Le Cateau; Marne 1914; Messines 1914; Ypres 1914, 1915, 1917: Gheluvelt; Frezenberg; Loos; Arras 1917; Somme 1918; Amiens; Hindenburg Line; Cambrai 1918; Sambre; Pursuit to Mons; France and Flanders 1914-18. | ||||||
| Second World War: Souleuvre; Brussels; Nederrijn; Rhine; North-West Europe 1944-5; Iraq 1941; Palmyra; Syria 1941; Knightsbridge; El Alamein; Advance on Tripoli; North Africa 1941-3; Sicily 1943; Italy 1943-4. Falklands War (1982): Falklands Islands 1982. | ||||||
| Accredited Battle Honours | Great War: Mons; Retreat from Mons; Aisne 1914; Armentières 1914; Langemarck 1914; Nonne Bosschen; St Julien; Scarpe 1917; St Quentin; Avre; Broodseinde; Poelcapelle; Passchendaele; Beaurevoir. | |||||
| Second World War: Mont Pinçon; Noireau Crossing; Amiens 1944; Neerpelt; Veghel; Nijmegen; Lingen; Bentheim; Baghdad 1941; Msus; Gazala; Defence of Alamein Line; El Agheila; Arezzo; Advance to Florence; Gothic Line. | ||||||
| Memorials | Memorial (South African War 1899-1902); screen and altar rails (Great War); eight-bell carillon and roll of honour (Second World War); two plaques (Cyprus 1956, 1964): Holy 'Trinity Church, Windsor. Memorial book and cloister; Guards' Chapel, Wellington Barracks, London. Memorial (First Battle of Ypres, 1915): Zandvoorde, Belgium. Two pews (Second World War): Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. Plaque (Great War): Scottish National War Memorial, Edinburgh. Monument (Waterloo, 1815 Major R. C. Packe): St George's Chapel, Windsor. | |||||
| Dress | DIFFERENCES: Blue dress cap, scarlet band and piping. Blue/scarlet/blue striped stable belt. White lanyard for soldiers, red lanyard for officers. Blue cloth-backed Eagle badge on upper left sleeve. | |||||
| REGIMENTAL TIE: Dull red and navy stripes. | ||||||
| Marches | Trot past: Keel Row. Quick: Regimental Quick March of the Blues and Royals (Grand March from Aida and The Royals). Slow: Slow March of the Blues and Royals. | |||||
| Alliances | The Royal Canadian Dragoons; The Governor-General's Horse Guards, of Canada. | |||||
| Journal | The Blue and Royal (once a year). | |||||
| Museum | Household Cavalry Museum, Combermere Barracks, St Leonard's Rd, Windsor, Berkshire (tel 0753 868222 ext 203): open Monday-Friday 1000-1300, 1400-1700. | |||||
| Record Office | Except officers: Horse Guards, Whitehall, London; officers: MS(AODO), London Rd, Stanmore, Middlesex. |
