3rd (The King's Own) Hussars

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Also known as 3rd (King's Own) Regiment of Dragoons and the 3rd Light Dragoons.

Chronology

  • 1685 raised as the Duke of Somerset's Regiment of Dragoons
  • 1694 renamed The Queen Consort's Own Regiment of Dragoons
  • 1714 renamed The King's Regiment of Dragoons
  • 1751 renamed the 3rd (King's Own) Regiment of Dragoons
  • 1818 renamed 3rd (The King's Own) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
  • 1861 renamed the 3rd (The King's Own) Hussars
  • 1921 renamed the 3rd The King's Own Hussars
  • 1958 amalgamated with 7th Queen's Own Hussars to form The Queen's Own Hussars

Service in British India

External links

3rd The King's Own Hussars Wikipedia
Queen's Own Hussars Wikipedia
3rd The King's Own Hussars including deployments Regiments.org, an archived site.
Queen’s Own Hussars Museum. Covers the 3rd and the 7th Hussars.

Historical books online

Historical record of the Third, or the King’s Own Regiment of Light Dragoons: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1685, and of its subsequent services to 1846 by Richard Cannon (1847) Archive.org. India Service commences page 88 in 1837

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