4th (Queen's Own) Hussars

Also known as 4th Queen's Own Hussars

Chronology

• 1685 raised as The Princess Anne of Denmark's Regiment of Dragoons and ranked as the 4th Dragoons
• 1751 formally titled the 4th Regiment of Dragoons
• 1788 renamed the 4th (Queen's Own) Regiment of Dragoons
• 1818 renamed the 4th (The Queen's Own) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
• 1861 renamed the 4th (Queen's Own) Hussars
• 1921 renamed the 4th Queen's Own Hussars
• 1958 amalgamated with the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars, to form the The Queen's Royal Irish Hussars
• 1993 amalgamated with The Queen's Own Hussars to form The Queen's Royal Hussars (The Queen's Own and Royal Irish)

Service in British India

• 1822 Bay of Cambay and then Kirkee
• 1839 1st Afghan War
• 1867 Bombay
• 1868 Meerut
• 1896 Bangalore
• 1899 Lucknow
• 1902 Meerut
• 1904 Secunderabad
• 1919 Muttra
• 1922 Meerut
• 1924 Lucknow
• 1927 Meerut

In 1841 the Regiment was under orders to return to England. 150 volunteers ‘disposed to extend their Indian service' transferred to the 14th Regiment of Light Dragoons, newly arrived from England, stationed at Kirkee, on 1 October 1841

Due to the return of the 4th Hussars to England, on 1 October 1878 a private transferred to the 13th Hussars

Regimental histories

• A Short History of the IV. Queen's Own Hussars [by H. G. Watkin, continued by T. W. Pragnell.] Published Meerut, [1923]. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01001095839
• A Short History of the 4th Queen's Own Hussars by Major T. J. Edwards 1935. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01001095841
• 4th Hussar. The story of the 4th Queen's Own Hussars, 1685-1958 by David Scott Daniell, etc. 1959. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01001095842

External links

• 4th Queen's Own Hussars including deployments www.regiments.org, an archived site
  
• 4th Queen's Own Hussars Wikipedia
  
• Queen's Royal Irish Hussars Wikipedia
  
• Wendy Leahy’s Shadows of Time includes
  • Records relating to the 4th Light Dragoons in India
  • 4th Light Dragoons Personal Records
  • 4th Light Dragoons: Regiment Records
• 4th Light Dragoons - Regimental Summary www.genes.plus.com
  
• The Queen's Royal Irish Hussars Regimental Collection archived page from the then Redoubt Fortress and Military Museum. Covered the 4th Hussars and the 8th (The King's Royal Irish) Hussars. This Collection is now not available at that location and will become part of a new Museum, see following.
  
• The Queen's Royal Hussars Regimental Association
• 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.
• "Exploits of the Queen’s Own Light Dragoons" 09 May 2017 Untold lives blog, British Library.

"Fourth ‘Queen’s Own’ Hussars in India" 13 August 2019 Untold lives blog, British Library.

Historical books online

• The Campaign in Affghanistan, Journal of an Officer of the Army of the Indus by Captain Ogle H.M.4th Lt Drags published 1840 and 1841 in the Asiatic Journal. Google Books. The author died of cholera 29 November 1839 towards the end of the campaign. Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7
• Scenes and Adventures in Affghanistan by William Taylor, Troop Sergeant-Major, 4th Light Dragoons. 1842 Google Books
  • A description of Captain Ogle page 197
• A Roving Commission My Early Life by the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill 1930 Archive.org. He arrived in India 1896, as an officer with the 4th Hussars, who were based in Bangalore. He took leave from his regiment to join the Malakand Field Force as a correspondent. He subsequently was appointed for a brief period to the Tirah Expedition. He resigned from the Army and left India 1899.