1st Dragoon Guards

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Chronology

  • 1685 raised by Lt Gen Sir John Lanier as Lanier's or 2nd Queen's Regiment of Horse
  • 1714 renamed The King's Own Regiment of Horse
  • 1751 renamed the 1st King's Dragoon Guards
  • 1959 amalgamated with The Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards) to become 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards

Service in British India

  • 1857 Indian Mutiny
  • 1860 2nd China War
  • 1860 Bangalore
  • 1864 Secunderabad
  • 1882 Meerut
  • 1885 Rawalpindi
  • 1907 Ambala
  • 1913 Lucknow
  • 1919 Afghanistan
  • 1935 Secunderabad

External Links

1st King's Dragoon Guards Wikipedia.
History 1857-58 1st Dragoon Guards.
In China 1860 1st Dragoon Guards.
1st Dragoon Guards 1746-1959 British Empire website.