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== External Links == | == External Links == | ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10th_Royal_Hussars 10th Royal Hussars] Wikipedia<br>[http://web.archive.org/web/20080118035427/www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/cav/D10h.htm 10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own)] including [http://web.archive.org/web/20080118041154/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-cav/d10.htm deployments] www.regiments.org, an archived site<br> | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10th_Royal_Hussars 10th Royal Hussars] Wikipedia<br> | ||
[http://www.horsepowermuseum.co.uk/museum.html Horsepower, the Museum of the King’s Royal Hussars]. Covers 10th and [[11th (Prince Albert's Own) Hussars|11th]] Hussars <br> | *[http://web.archive.org/web/20080118035427/www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/cav/D10h.htm 10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own)] including [http://web.archive.org/web/20080118041154/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-cav/d10.htm deployments] www.regiments.org, an archived site<br> | ||
*[http://www.horsepowermuseum.co.uk/museum.html Horsepower, the Museum of the King’s Royal Hussars]. Covers 10th and [[11th (Prince Albert's Own) Hussars|11th]] Hussars <br> | |||
''Memoirs of the Tenth Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales' Own)'' by R.S. Liddell, first published 1891, is available as a reprint and may be purchased through Amazon.co.uk from the [http://astore.amazon.co.uk/faminbriindso-21/detail/184574103X FIBIS Shop]. Also available at the [[British Library]]<br> | *''Memoirs of the Tenth Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales' Own)'' by R.S. Liddell, first published 1891, is available as a reprint and may be purchased through Amazon.co.uk from the [http://astore.amazon.co.uk/faminbriindso-21/detail/184574103X FIBIS Shop]. Also available at the [[British Library]]<br> | ||
[http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armyunits/britishcavalry/11thdragoons.htm 11th Dragoons] British Empire website<br>[http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armyunits/britishcavalry/11thltdragoons.htm 11th Light Dragoons] British Empire website<br>[http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armyunits/britishcavalry/11thhussars.htm 11th Hussars] British Empire website<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11th_Hussars 11th Hussars] Wikipedia<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_Royal_Hussars King's Royal Hussars] Wikipedia | *[http://www.majorpillinger.com/index.php Major Roland Pillinger: A Soldier of the British Empire] Family website by Richard Pillinger. Major Pillinger joined the Tenth Royal (Prince of Wales Own) Hussars in Canterbury in 1879 and served until 1913 rising “ by sheer force of character from Private to Major and Quarter-Master” | ||
**[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. | |||
*[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 | |||
*[http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1879/aug/07/questions-1 Hansard 07 August 1879] vol 249 cc391-2. A question regarding cholera deaths in the 10th Hussars | |||
*This [http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=6103#p24183 thread] from Victorian Wars Forum includes a photograph of the 10th taken in Jellalabad 1879<br> | |||
*[http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armyunits/britishcavalry/11thdragoons.htm 11th Dragoons] British Empire website<br> | |||
*[http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armyunits/britishcavalry/11thltdragoons.htm 11th Light Dragoons] British Empire website<br> | |||
*[http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armyunits/britishcavalry/11thhussars.htm 11th Hussars] British Empire website<br> | |||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11th_Hussars 11th Hussars] Wikipedia<br> | |||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_Royal_Hussars King's Royal Hussars] Wikipedia | |||
===Historical books online=== | ===Historical books online=== | ||
Revision as of 12:07, 16 September 2012
Also known as 10th Light Dragoons
Chronology
- 1715 raised as Humphrey Gore's Regiment of Dragoons
- 1751 renamed the 10th Regiment of Dragoons
- 1783 became the 10th (Prince of Wales's Own) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
- 1806 became the 10th (Prince of Wales's Own) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Hussars)
- 1861 became the 10th (The Prince of Wales's Own) Royal Hussars
- 1921 became the 10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own)
- 1969 amalgamated with the 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own) to form The Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own).
Service in British India
- 1846 India
- 1873 Muttra
- 1878 2nd Afghan War
- 1881 Bengal
- 1903 Mhow
- 1908 Rawalpindi
- 1931 Meerut
- 1933 Lucknow
External Links
- 10th Royal Hussars Wikipedia
- 10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own) including deployments www.regiments.org, an archived site
- Horsepower, the Museum of the King’s Royal Hussars. Covers 10th and 11th Hussars
- Memoirs of the Tenth Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales' Own) by R.S. Liddell, first published 1891, is available as a reprint and may be purchased through Amazon.co.uk from the FIBIS Shop. Also available at the British Library
- Major Roland Pillinger: A Soldier of the British Empire Family website by Richard Pillinger. Major Pillinger joined the Tenth Royal (Prince of Wales Own) Hussars in Canterbury in 1879 and served until 1913 rising “ by sheer force of character from Private to Major and Quarter-Master”
- Photographs include Rawal-Pindi 1910
- 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"
- 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.
- Ford o' Kabul River The river disaster of the 10th Hussars 31 March 1879 by Garen Ewing garenewing.co.uk
- Ford o' Kabul River horsepowermuseum.co.uk
- Hansard 07 August 1879 vol 249 cc391-2. A question regarding cholera deaths in the 10th Hussars
- This thread from Victorian Wars Forum includes a photograph of the 10th taken in Jellalabad 1879
- 11th Dragoons British Empire website
- 11th Light Dragoons British Empire website
- 11th Hussars British Empire website
- 11th Hussars Wikipedia
- King's Royal Hussars Wikipedia
Historical books online
- Historical record of the Tenth, the Prince of Wales's Own Royal Regiment of Hussars containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1715, and of its subsequent services to 1842 1843 Archive.org
- Soldiering in Sunshine and Storm: From India to the Crimea and Home by William Douglas (Private, 10th Royal Hussars.) 1865 Google Books. The initial chapter describes the regiment's life in India from 1846 until it left for the Crimea in December 1854.