18th Hussars

Also known as 18th (Light) Dragoons

Chronology

1715 raised as Richard Molesworth's Regiment of Dragoons ranked as 19th Dragoons
1718 disbanded
1759 reformed as 19th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
1766 became 4th Regiment of Light Dragoons
1769 became 18th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
1805 became 18th (King's Irish) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
1805 became 18th (King's Irish) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Hussars)
1821 disbanded in Ireland
1858 reformed at Leeds as 18th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons from a nucleus of 15th Hussars
1861 became 18th Hussars
1903 renamed the 18th (Princess of Wales's Own) Hussars
1905 renamed the 18th (Victoria Mary, Princess of Wales's Own) Hussarss
1910 renamed the 18th (Queen Mary's Own) Hussars
1921 renamed the18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own)
1922 amalgamated with the 13th Hussars to form the 13th/18th Hussars
1935 became the 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own)
1992 consolidated with the 15th/19th King’s Hussars to form the Light Dragoons

Due to the return of the 18th Hussars to England, on 8 April 1875 2 privates transferred to the 13th Hussars^[1]

Historical Records of the Eighteenth Hussars by Captain Harold Esdaile Malet 1869 Google Books. The regiment sailed for Madras in 1864 page 60
Pdf downloads available from the Light Dragoons Regimental Association include
- Historical Memoirs of the XVIII (POW) Hussars likely to be The Historical Memoirs of the XVIIIth Hussars (Princess of Wales's Own) Collected and arranged by Colonel Harold Malet, published 1907
- History of 13th-18th (QMO) Hussars 1922-1947

Note , these are large pdfs which may be slow to open.