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Nicknames

The Trades Union The KDGs Bland's Horse

Motto

Honi soit qui mal y pense Evil be to him who evil thinks

Regimental Marches

The Radetsky March (Quick) J. Strauss

The King's Dragoon Guards (Slow) Mercadante

Regimental Anniversary

Waterloo Day 18th June

Depot

Dunbar

Colonels

1746 - 1959

Lieutenant Colonels

1746 - 1959

Soldiers

1746 - 1959

Uniforms

1746 - 1959

Equipment

Sword, 1853 Pattern Martini-Henry Carbine

Principal Campaigns and Battles

1758 - 1763 Germany 1759 Minden 1760 Corbach 1760 Warbourg 1761 Kirk Denkern 1762 Wilhelmstahl 1763 Groebenstein 1793 - 1795 Flanders 1794 Cateau 1794 Tournay 1815 Hundred Days 1815 Waterloo 1854 - 1855 Crimean War 1855 Sebastapol 1857 - 1860 Second Chinese War 1860 Taku Forts 1860 Pekin 1877 - 1870 Zulu and Basuto War 1901 - 1902 South African War 1914 - 1918 The Great War 1914 - 1917 France and Flanders 1916 Somme Morval 1919 Afghanistan 1939 - 1945 Second World War 1941 - 1943 North Africa 1941 Beda Fomm 1941 Tobruk 1941 Gazala Bir Hacheim Alam el Halfa El Agheila El Hamma Akarit Defence of Alamein Advance on Tripoli Tebaga Gap Tunis 1943 - 1944 Italy Monte Camino Gothic Line Capture of Naples Scafait Bridge Garigliano Crossing 1944 - 1945 Greece Athens

Predecessor Units

The Queen's Regiment of Horse (1685 - 1714) The King's Own Regiment of Horse (1714 - 1746)

Successor Units

1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards (1959 - )

Suggested Reading

A History of the King's Dragoon Guards, 1938 - 1945 by McCouquodale, Hutchings and Woozley (Regiment: 1950) A Short History of the King's Dragoon Guards, 1685 - 1929 (Gale & Polden: 1929) Historical Records of the First or King's Regiment of Dragoon Guards, 1685 to 1836 (London: Clowes: 1837)

Regimental Museum

Cardiff Castle, Cardiff, South Glamorgan

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