3rd (The King's Own) Hussars

Also known as 3rd (King's Own) Regiment of Dragoons and the 3rd Light Dragoons.

Chronology

• 1685 raised as the Duke of Somerset's Regiment of Dragoons
• 1694 renamed The Queen Consort's Own Regiment of Dragoons
• 1714 renamed The King's Regiment of Dragoons
• 1751 renamed the 3rd (King's Own) Regiment of Dragoons
• 1818 renamed 3rd (The King's Own) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
• 1861 renamed the 3rd (The King's Own) Hussars
• 1921 renamed the 3rd The King's Own Hussars
• 1958 amalgamated with 7th Queen's Own Hussars to form The Queen's Own Hussars

Service in British India

• 1837 India
• 1842 Afghanistan
• 1845 1st Sikh War
• 1848 2nd Sikh War
• 1868 India
• 1896 Lucknow
• 1902 Sialkot

Due to the return of the 3rd Hussars to England, on 1 October 1879 1 sergeant and 9 privates transferred to the 13th Hussars

British Library holdings

• Sergeant Pearman's Memoirs: Being, Chiefly, His Account of Service with the Third (King's Own) Light Dragoons in India, from 1845 to 1853, Including the First and Second Sikh Wars by John Pearman. Edited by the Marquess of Anglesey.

External links

3rd The King's Own Hussars Wikipedia
Queen's Own Hussars Wikipedia
3rd The King's Own Hussars including deployments Regiments.org, an archived site.
Queen’s Own Hussars Museum. Covers the 3rd and the 7th Hussars. Includes History , 3rd The King’s Own Hussars

Historical books online

Historical record of the Third, or the King’s Own Regiment of Light Dragoons: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1685, and of its subsequent services to 1846 by Richard Cannon (1847) Archive.org. India Service commences page 88 in 1837