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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Queen%27s_Own_Hussars Queen'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.
*[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 Queen’s Own Hussars Museum.
*[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.queensroyalhussars.org The Queen's Royal Hussars Regimental Association]
**[https://www.queensroyalhussars.org/museum-2/museum-appeal/ Museum Appeal] for a new Museum
*[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.
***[http://www.qrhmuseum.uk/home The Museum of The Queen's Royal Hussars - Churchill’s Own] in Warwick. Not yet opened. Will cover 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]].
 
===Historical books online===
===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
*[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

Revision as of 01:12, 21 November 2023

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

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

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

Historical books online

References