11th (Prince Albert's Own) Hussars

Also known as 11th Light Dragoons

Chronology

• 1715 raised as Colonel Philip Honeywood's Regiment of Dragoons
• 1751 renamed the 11th Regiment of Dragoons
• 1783 became the 11th Regiment of Light Dragoons
• 1840 became the 11th (Prince Albert's Own) Hussars
• 1969 amalgamated with the 10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own) to form The Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own)
• 1992 amalgamated with the 14th/20th King's Hussars to form the King's Royal Hussars

Service in British India

• 1819 India
• 1825 Jat War
• 1866 Bengal
• 1892 Sialkot
• 1897 North West Frontier
• 1921 Meerut
• 1923 Risalpur

Regimental Journal

The XI Hussars Journal

External Links

11th Dragoons British Empire website
11th Light Dragoons British Empire website
11th Hussars British Empire website
11th Hussars Wikipedia
Royal Hussars Wikipedia
King's Royal Hussars Wikipedia
11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own) including deployments Regiments.org, an archived site
Firepower, the Museum of the King’s Royal Hussars. Covers 10th and 11th Hussars

Historical books online

• "Reminiscences of a Light Dragoon" [in India from 1819 to 1836] from Colburn's United Service Magazine Google Books
  • "No 21" from Part 2 1843, page 574
  • "No 22-23" from Part 3 1843, page 357
  • "No 24-26" from Part 3 1843, page 576 includes participation in the Jat War