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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|7th Queen's Own Hussars]] to form The Queen's Own Hussars

== Service in British India ==
*'''1837''' India
*'''1842''' [[1st Afghan War|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]] <ref>  [https://www.pinetreeweb.com/13th-afghan-war.html  The 13th Hussars in India & Afghanistan 1874-1884] pinetreeweb.com</ref>

==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, 1968.
: A different, fuller edition of the memoirs appeared in ''The Radical Soldier's Tale: John Pearman, 1819-1908'' by Carolyn Steedman 1988.

== External links ==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3rd_The_King%27s_Own_Hussars 3rd The King's Own Hussars] Wikipedia<br>
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Queen%27s_Own_Hussars Queen's Own Hussars] Wikipedia<br>
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20080118043707/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/cav/D03h.htm 3rd The King's Own Hussars] including [http://web.archive.org/web/20080118035352/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-cav/d03.htm deployments] Regiments.org, an archived site.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170324184636/http://www.qohmuseum.org.uk/3rd.htm History, 3rd The King’s Own Hussars], archived page from the now closed previous Queen’s Own Hussars Museum.
*[https://www.queensroyalhussars.org The Queen's Royal Hussars Regimental Association]
*[https://www.qrhmuseum.com The Museum of The Queen's Royal Hussars - Churchill’s Own] in Warwick.  Covers the 3rd (The King's Own) Hussars,  [[4th (Queen's Own) Hussars]],  the [[7th (Queen's Own) Hussars]] and  the [[8th (The King's Royal Irish) Hussars]]. Currently closed until April 2024.

===Historical books online===
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historicalrecor00offigoog#page/n5/mode/1up ''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 [http://www.archive.org/stream/historicalrecor00offigoog#page/n132/mode/1up page 88] in 1837
:[https://archive.org/details/thirdhussarsto1903/page/n9/mode/2up ''Historical Record of the Third (King's Own) Hussars. Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1685, and Its Subsequent Services to 1903''] 1903 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/3rdhussarsgtwar/page/n15/mode/2up ''The 3rd (King's Own) Hussars in the Great War (1914 - 1919)''] by Lieut.-Colonel Walter Temple Willcox 1925 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cavalryexperien00ouvrgoog  ''Cavalry Experiences and Leaves from My Journal''] by Colonel H A Ouvry 1892 Archive.org. The author arrived in India in late 1846 to join the 3rd Light Dragoons, where he took part in the [[2nd Sikh War]] and remained with the regiment until they returned to England. C 1854, he could not afford to remain in England and exchanged into the [[9th Lancers]], arriving back at Umballa in 1855 (page 99) and took part in the [[Indian Mutiny]]. He returned to England in 1859.
*[https://archive.org/details/mylifeassoldiers00scot/page/n9 ''My life as Soldier and Sportsman''] by J. Robson Scott, Major, late 3rd Hussars
**[https://archive.org/details/mylifeassoldiers00scot/page/56 "Chapter II Indian Reminiscences"] page 56. He was in India for two and a half years c 1877 at [[Mhow]].

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