3rd (The King's Own) Hussars: Difference between revisions

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

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

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-== External Links ==
+== 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
+===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
 [[Category:British Army Cavalry Regiments]]