1st Dragoon Guards

Chronology

• 1685 raised by Lt Gen Sir John Lanier as Lanier's or 2nd Queen's Regiment of Horse
• 1714 renamed The King's Own Regiment of Horse
• 1751 renamed the 1st King's Dragoon Guards
• 1959 amalgamated with The Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards) to become 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards

Service in British India

• 1857 Indian Mutiny
• 1860 2nd China War
• 1860 Bangalore
• 1864 Secunderabad
• 1882 Meerut
• 1885 Rawalpindi
• 1907 Ambala
• 1913 Lucknow
• 1919 Afghanistan
• 1935 Secunderabad

External Links

1st King's Dragoon Guards www.regiments.org
1st King's Dragoon Guards Wikipedia.
History 1857-58 1st Dragoon Guards.
In China 1860 1st Dragoon Guards.
1st Dragoon Guards 1746-1959 British Empire website.