Difference between revisions of "18th Hussars"

From FIBIwiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search
(→‎Service in British India)
(→‎Historical books online)
 
(7 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown)
Line 27: Line 27:
 
*'''1919''' Risalpur
 
*'''1919''' Risalpur
  
−
Due to the return of the 18th Hussars to England, on 8 April 1875 2 privates transferred to the [[13th Hussars]] according to the link [http://pinetreeweb.com/13th-afghan-war.htm The 13th Hussars in India & Afghanistan1874-1884] (pinetreeweb.com)
+
Due to the return of the 18th Hussars to England, on 8 April 1875 2 privates transferred to the [[13th Hussars]]<ref>  [http://pinetreeweb.com/13th-afghan-war.htm The 13th Hussars in India & Afghanistan 1874-1884] pinetreeweb.com</ref>
  
 +
==Regimental histories==
 +
*''Light Dragoons : the Origins of a New Regiment''  by Allan Mallinson.  1993.  Available at the [[British Library]] BLL01008113929 . A later 2006 edition was published under the title ''Light Dragoons : the Making of a Regiment''. Covers the [[13th Hussars]], [[15th (The King's) Hussars|15th  Hussars]], 18th Hussars, and [[19th Hussars]].
 +
 
== External Links ==
 
== External Links ==
 
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20080118043728/www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/cav/D18h.htm 18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own)] including [http://web.archive.org/web/20080118041209/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-cav/d18.htm deployments] Regiments.org, an archived site.
 
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20080118043728/www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/cav/D18h.htm 18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own)] including [http://web.archive.org/web/20080118041209/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-cav/d18.htm deployments] Regiments.org, an archived site.
Line 38: Line 41:
 
===Historical books online===
 
===Historical books online===
 
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=djYRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR2 ''Historical Records of the Eighteenth Hussars''] by Captain Harold Esdaile Malet 1869 Google Books. The regiment sailed for Madras in 1864 [http://books.google.com/books?id=djYRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA60 page 60]
 
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=djYRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR2 ''Historical Records of the Eighteenth Hussars''] by Captain Harold Esdaile Malet 1869 Google Books. The regiment sailed for Madras in 1864 [http://books.google.com/books?id=djYRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA60 page 60]
 +
*Pdf  downloads available from the [http://www.lightdragoons.org.uk/downloads.html Light Dragoons Regimental Association] include
 +
**''Historical Memoirs of the XVIII (POW) Hussars'' likely to be ''The Historical Memoirs of the XVIIIth Hussars (Princess of Wales's Own)'' Collected and arranged by Colonel Harold Malet,  published 1907
 +
**''Memoirs of the 18th (QMO) Royal Hussars 1906-1922'' likely to be ''The Memoirs of the 18th - Queen Mary's Own - Royal Hussars, 1906-1922, including operations in the Great War'' by Brig.-General Charles Burnett, published 1926.
 +
*:This title is also available [https://archive.org/details/18thhussars1906_1922/page/n9/mode/2up Archive.org]
 +
**''History of 13th-18th (QMO) Hussars 1922-1947''
 +
*[https://archive.org/details/twixtsirdarmenel00welliala/mode/2up '''Twixt Sirdar & Menelik; an account of a year's expedition from Zeila to Cairo through unknown Abyssinia''] by the late Captain  M S Wellby 18th Hussars 1901. Archive.org
 +
:[https://blogs.bl.uk/magnificentmaps/2017/11/captain-wellby-and-his-1000-mile-march.html Captain Wellby and his 1,000-mile march] 09 November 2017 British Library blog.
 +
 +
== References ==
 +
<references />
 +
 +
{{#widget:Google PlusOne
 +
|size=small
 +
|count=true
 +
}}
 +
 +
  
  
 
[[Category:British Army Cavalry Regiments]]
 
[[Category:British Army Cavalry Regiments]]

Latest revision as of 02:05, 21 November 2023

Also known as 18th (Light) Dragoons

Chronology

  • 1715 raised as Richard Molesworth's Regiment of Dragoons ranked as 19th Dragoons
  • 1718 disbanded
  • 1759 reformed as 19th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
  • 1766 became 4th Regiment of Light Dragoons
  • 1769 became 18th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
  • 1805 became 18th (King's Irish) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
  • 1805 became 18th (King's Irish) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Hussars)
  • 1821 disbanded in Ireland
  • 1858 reformed at Leeds as 18th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons from a nucleus of 15th Hussars
  • 1861 became 18th Hussars
  • 1903 renamed the 18th (Princess of Wales's Own) Hussars
  • 1905 renamed the 18th (Victoria Mary, Princess of Wales's Own) Hussarss
  • 1910 renamed the 18th (Queen Mary's Own) Hussars
  • 1921 renamed the18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own)
  • 1922 amalgamated with the 13th Hussars to form the 13th/18th Hussars
  • 1935 became the 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own)
  • 1992 consolidated with the 15th/19th King’s Hussars to form the Light Dragoons

Service in British India

Due to the return of the 18th Hussars to England, on 8 April 1875 2 privates transferred to the 13th Hussars[1]

Regimental histories

  • Light Dragoons : the Origins of a New Regiment by Allan Mallinson. 1993. Available at the British Library BLL01008113929 . A later 2006 edition was published under the title Light Dragoons : the Making of a Regiment. Covers the 13th Hussars, 15th Hussars, 18th Hussars, and 19th Hussars.

External Links

Historical books online

Captain Wellby and his 1,000-mile march 09 November 2017 British Library blog.

References

  1. ↑ The 13th Hussars in India & Afghanistan 1874-1884 pinetreeweb.com

Retrieved from "https://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=18th_Hussars&oldid=89731"