1st Dragoon Guards

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Known as The Queen's Bays

Chronology

  • 1685 raised by Lt Gen Sir John Lanier as Lanier's or 2nd Queen's Regiment of Horse
  • 1714 renamed The King's Own Regiment of Horse
  • 1751 renamed the 1st King's Dragoon Guards
  • 1959 amalgamated with The Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards) to become 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards

External Links

1st King's Dragoon Guards Wikipedia
History 1857-58 www.qdg.org.uk