Difference between revisions of "18th Hussars"

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Also known as 18th (Light) Dragoons

1715 raised as Richard Molesworth's Regiment of Dragoons ranked as 19th Dragoons
1718 disbanded
1759 reformed as 19th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
1766 became 4th Regiment of Light Dragoons
1769 became 18th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
1805 became 18th (King's Irish) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
1805 became 18th (King's Irish) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Hussars)
1821 disbanded in Ireland
1858 reformed at Leeds as 18th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons from a nucleus of 15th Hussars
1861 became 18th Hussars
1903 renamed the 18th (Princess of Wales's Own) Hussars
1905 renamed the 18th (Victoria Mary, Princess of Wales's Own) Hussarss
1910 renamed the 18th (Queen Mary's Own) Hussars
1921 renamed the18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own)
1922 amalgamated with the 13th Hussars to form the 13th/18th Hussars
1935 became the 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own)
1992 consolidated with the 15th/19th King’s Hussars to form the Light Dragoons

Due to the return of the 18th Hussars to England, on 8 April 1875 2 privates transferred to the 13th Hussars^[1]

Light Dragoons : the Origins of a New Regiment by Allan Mallinson. 1993. Available at the British Library BLL01008113929 . A later 2006 edition was published under the title Light Dragoons : the Making of a Regiment. Covers the 13th Hussars, 15th Hussars, 18th Hussars, and 19th Hussars.

Historical Records of the Eighteenth Hussars by Captain Harold Esdaile Malet 1869 Google Books. The regiment sailed for Madras in 1864 page 60
Pdf downloads available from the Light Dragoons Regimental Association include
- Historical Memoirs of the XVIII (POW) Hussars likely to be The Historical Memoirs of the XVIIIth Hussars (Princess of Wales's Own) Collected and arranged by Colonel Harold Malet, published 1907
- Memoirs of the 18th (QMO) Royal Hussars 1906-1922 likely to be The Memoirs of the 18th - Queen Mary's Own - Royal Hussars, 1906-1922, including operations in the Great War by Brig.-General Charles Burnett, published 1926.
This title is also available Archive.org
- History of 13th-18th (QMO) Hussars 1922-1947
'Twixt Sirdar & Menelik; an account of a year's expedition from Zeila to Cairo through unknown Abyssinia by the late Captain M S Wellby 18th Hussars 1901. Archive.org

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 *Pdf  downloads available from the [http://www.lightdragoons.org.uk/downloads.html Light Dragoons Regimental Association] include
 **''Historical Memoirs of the XVIII (POW) Hussars'' likely to be ''The Historical Memoirs of the XVIIIth Hussars (Princess of Wales's Own)'' Collected and arranged by Colonel Harold Malet,  published 1907
-**''Memoirs of the 18th (QMO) Royal Hussars 1906-1922''
+**''Memoirs of the 18th (QMO) Royal Hussars 1906-1922'' likely to be ''The Memoirs of the 18th - Queen Mary's Own - Royal Hussars, 1906-1922, including operations in the Great War'' by Brig.-General Charles Burnett, published 1926.
-**''History of 13th-18th (QMO) Hussars 1922-1947''
+*:This title is also available [https://archive.org/details/18thhussars1906_1922/page/n9/mode/2up Archive.org]
-: Note , these are large pdfs which may be slow to open.
+**''History of 13th-18th (QMO) Hussars 1922-1947''
+*[https://archive.org/details/twixtsirdarmenel00welliala/mode/2up '''Twixt Sirdar & Menelik; an account of a year's expedition from Zeila to Cairo through unknown Abyssinia''] by the late Captain  M S Wellby 18th Hussars 1901. Archive.org
+:[https://blogs.bl.uk/magnificentmaps/2017/11/captain-wellby-and-his-1000-mile-march.html Captain Wellby and his 1,000-mile march] 09 November 2017 British Library blog.
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