15th (The King's) Hussars

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Also known as 19th Royal Hussars

Chronology

  • 1857 raised as the 1st Bengal European Light Cavalry
  • 1862 renamed the 19th Hussars
  • 1884 renamed the 19th (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own) Hussars
  • 1908 renamed the 19th (Queen Alexandra's Own Royal) Hussars
  • 1921 retitled as the 19th Royal Hussars (Queen Alexandra's Own)
  • 1922 amalgamated with the 15th The King's Hussars, to form the 15th/19th Hussars
  • 1992 amalgamated with the 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) to form The Light Dragoons

Service in British India

External Links

19th Royal Hussars www.regiments.org
19th Royal Hussars Wikipedia
15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars Wikipedia
Light Dragoons Wikipedia

Bibliography

See The Diary of an Indian Cavalry Officer, Pagoda Tree Press, Bath 2003 p197, and Col. John Biddulph The Nineteenth and their Times, London 1899.

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