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*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/44841559@N03/6558344383/ Image: Player’s Cigarette Card: Officer, 10th Hussars 1878-1880] flickr.com
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/44841559@N03/6558344383/ Image: Player’s Cigarette Card: Officer, 10th Hussars 1878-1880] flickr.com
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_Royal_Hussars King's Royal Hussars] Wikipedia
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_Royal_Hussars King's Royal Hussars] Wikipedia
*[http://www.britishbattles.com/second-afghan-war/futtehabad.htm The Battle of Futtehabad]britishbattles.com - includes, amongst others, an image of Officers of the 10th Hussars at Jellalabad in 1879.
===Historical books online===
===Historical books online===
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cihm_48346#page/n23/mode/2up  ''Historical record of the Tenth, the Prince of Wales's Own Royal Regiment of Hussars containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1715, and of its subsequent services to 1842''] 1843 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cihm_48346#page/n23/mode/2up  ''Historical record of the Tenth, the Prince of Wales's Own Royal Regiment of Hussars containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1715, and of its subsequent services to 1842''] 1843 Archive.org
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=_0k6AQAAIAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Soldiering in Sunshine and Storm'']: ''From India to the Crimea and Home'' by William Douglas (Private, 10th Royal Hussars.) 1865 Google Books. The initial chapter describes the regiment's life in India from 1846 until it left for the Crimea in December 1854.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=_0k6AQAAIAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Soldiering in Sunshine and Storm'']: ''From India to the Crimea and Home'' by William Douglas (Private, 10th Royal Hussars.) 1865 Google Books. The initial chapter describes the regiment's life in India from 1846 until it left for the Crimea in December 1854.
*[http://www.britishbattles.com/second-afghan-war/futtehabad.htm The Battle of Futtehabad]britishbattles.com - includes, amongst otheres,  image of Officers of the 10th Hussars at Jellalabad in 1879.
 


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Also known as 10th Light Dragoons

Chronology

  • 1715 raised as Humphrey Gore's Regiment of Dragoons
  • 1751 renamed the 10th Regiment of Dragoons
  • 1783 became the 10th (Prince of Wales's Own) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
  • 1806 became the 10th (Prince of Wales's Own) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Hussars)
  • 1861 became the 10th (The Prince of Wales's Own) Royal Hussars
  • 1921 became the 10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own)
  • 1969 amalgamated with the 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own) to form The Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own).

Service in British India

Memorial to those who died in the Afghan Campaign in 1878-9. Click on the image to enlage it, and then click again for futher enlargement.All the names are clearly visible

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Regimental journal

The National Army Museum’s online catalogue lists

  • The 10th Hussars gazette: vol 1: 1907; vols 2-3: 1908 – 1910; vols 4-5: 1910 - 1912
  • The 10th Royal Hussars gazette : vols 8-9: 1929 – 1930; vol 10: 1930 – 1931; together with later editions

External Links

Historical books online