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*'''1969''' amalgamated with the [[11th Light Dragoons|11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own)]] to form The Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own).
== Service in British India ==
[[Image:AfghanMemorial10thHussars.jpg|300px|thumb| 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]].
*'''1846''' India
*'''1873''' [[Muttra]]
**[http://www.majorpillinger.com/portfolio.php Photographs] include Rawal-Pindi 1910
**[http://www.majorpillinger.com/reg_hist.php Regimental History 1878-1906] includes extracts from a regimental publication ''A Short History of the Xth P.O.W. Royal Hussars'' by Lieut-Colonel John Vaughan and Major Roland Pillinger including Chapter VII "The Afghan War"
**[http://www.majorpillinger.com/preface.php Preface] includes reference to, including a drawing of, a Memorial to the Soldiers of the Regiment lost in the Afghan Campaign in 1878-9. One Officer and 46 NCOs and men were drowned crossing the Cabul River and a further 38 men died of cholera on the way back to Rawal Pindi, when an outbreak set upon the Regiment in the Khyber Pass. This image is also displayed [[10th (The Prince of Wales's Own) Royal Hussars#Service in British India|above]] with all the names clearly visible.
*[http://www.garenewing.co.uk/angloafghanwar/articles/fordokabul.php Ford o' Kabul River The river disaster of the 10th Hussars 31 March 1879] by Garen Ewing garenewing.co.uk
*[http://www.horsepowermuseum.co.uk/march2012highlight.html Ford o' Kabul River] horsepowermuseum.co.uk
