In Collaboration With Charles Griffin


Badge
Badge
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
Battle Honours
Seven Years War 1756 - 63
WARBURG

Peninsular War 1808 - 14
PENINSULA

Waterloo Campaign 1815
WATERLOO

Crimean War 1854 - 55
SEVASTOPOL

Second Afghan War 1878 - 80
ALI MASJID
AFGHANISTAN 1878-79

First Sudan War 1882 - 84
EGYPT 1884

South African War 1899 - 1902
RELIEF OF KIMBERLEY
PAARDEBERG
SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902

World War One
Emblazoned

YPRES 1914 1915
FREZENBERG
LOOS
ARRAS 1917 1918
SOMME 1918
AVRE
AMIENS
DROCOURT-QUÉANT
PURSUIT TO MONS
FRANCE AND FLANDERS 1914 -1918

World War One
Accredited

LANGEMARCK 1914
GHELUVELT
NONNE BOSSCHEN
SCARPE 1917
ST QUENTIN
HINDENBURG LINE
BEAUREVOIR
CAMBRAI 1918
SELLE

World War Two
Emblazoned

SOMME 1940
SAUNNU
GAZALA
EL ALAMEIN
EL HAMMA
TUNIS
CORIANO
SANTARCANGELO
VALLI DI COMACCHIO
ARGENTA GAP

World War Two
Accredited

NORTH-WEST EUROPE 1940
BIR EL ASLAGH
ALAM EL HALFA
EL KOURZIA
DJEBEL KOURNINE
NORTH AFRICA 1942 - 43
COSINA CANAL CROSSING
SENIO POCKET
CESENA
ITALY 1944 - 45

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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