2nd Dragoon Guards

Known as The Queen's Bays

Chronology

• 1682 raised as the Earl of Peterborough's Regiment of Horse and ranked as the 3rd Regiment of Horse
• 1688 renamed Villiers' Horse
• 1715 renamed The Princess of Wales's Own Regiment of Horse
• 1727 renamed The Queen's Own Regiment of Horse
• 1747 became the 2nd Queens Regiment of Dragoon Guards (The Bays)
• 1767 became 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays)
• 1921 retitled The Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards)
• 1959 amalgamated with the 1st King's Dragoon Guards to become 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards

Service in British India

• 1857-59 The Indian Mutiny
• 1885 Sialkot
• 1893 Rawalpindi
• 1895 Egypt
• 1920 Sialkot

External Links

The Queen's Bays www.regiments.org
2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) Wikipedia
1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards Wikipedia
History 1857-58 www.qdg.org.uk