18th Hussars

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

• 1864 Madras
• 1890 Umballa
• 1896 Lucknow
• 1896 Chitral Campaign
• 1919 Risalpur

External Links

18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) including deployments www.regiments.org, an archived site.
18th Royal Hussars Wikipedia
13th/18th Hussars Wikipedia
The Light Dragoons Regimental Association (13th/ 15th/ 18th /19th Hussars/Light Dragoons) including Museums, Images

Historical books online

• Historical Records of the Eighteenth Hussars by Captain Harold Esdaile Malet 1869 Google Books. The regiment sailed for Madras in 1864 page 60