8th (The King's Royal Irish) Hussars

Also known as 8th Regiment of Light Dragoons

Chronology

• 1693 raised in Derry as Henry Conyngham's Regiment of Dragoons and ranked as the 8th Dragoons
• 1751 formally titled the 8th Regiment of Dragoons
• 1775 renamed the 8th Regiment of Light Dragoons
• 1777 renamed the 8th (The King's Royal Irish) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
• 1822 renamed the 8th (The King's Royal Irish) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Hussars)
• 1861 renamed the 8th (The King's Royal Irish) Hussars
• 1921 renamed the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars
• 1958 amalgamated with the 4th Queen's Own 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

• 1803 2nd Maratha War
• 1812 Campaign against Meer Khan
• 1814 Gurkha War
• 1816 3rd Maratha War
• 1857 Indian Mutiny
• 1861 Meerut
• 1878 2nd Afghan War
• 1881 Rawalpindi
• 1885 Meerut
• 1909 Lucknow
• 1913 Umballa

Regimental Journal

The Crossbelts,The Journal of the VIII King's Royal Irish Hussars. The British Library has Vol. 1. no. 1-Vol. 5. no. 2. 1927-1952/53.. Not published from 1940 to 1944.

External Links

• 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars including deployments www.regiments.org, an archived site
  
• 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars Wikipedia
  
• Queen's Royal Irish Hussars Wikipedia
  
• History, 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars qrh.org.uk
  
• 8th Hussars Britishempire.co.uk
  
• The Queen's Royal Irish Hussars Regimental Collection at Redoubt Fortress and Military Museum . Covers the 8th Hussars and the 4th Queen's Own Hussars
• Naval and Military Press have published a two volume History of the VIII King’s Royal Irish Hussars 1693-1927 by Rev R H Murray, a reprint, originally published in 1928. Available to purchase through Amazon.co.uk from the FIBIS Shop
• Image of an 8th Hussar in Afghanistan during the 2nd Afghan War Victorian Wars Forum

Historical books online

• Campaigning Experiences in Rajpootana and Central India: during the Suppression of the Mutiny, 1857-1858 by Frances Isabella Locke Duberly (Wikipedia) whose husband, Captain Henry Duberly, was the paymaster to the 8th Royal Irish Hussars 1859 Google Books