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Nickname

The Green Horse

Motto

Vestigia nulla restorsum We do not retreat

Regimental Anniversary

Salamanca Day

Regimental Marches

The Gay Cavalier Quick

Soldier's chorus from Gounod's Faust Slow

Colonels

1685 - 1922

Lieutenant-Colonels

1685 - 1922

Soldiers

1685 - 1922

Uniforms

1685 - 1922

Band and Drumhorses

1685 - 1922

Principal Campaigns and Battles

1701 - 1715 War of Spanish Succession 1793 - 1802 French Revolutionary Wars 1808 - 1814 Peninsular War 1854 - 1855 Crimean War 1899 - 1902 South African War 1914 - 1918 The Great War

Predecessor Units

Shrewsbury's Horse (7th Horse) (1685 - 1687) Langdale's Horse (1687) Hamilton's Horse (1687 - 1688) Coy's Horse (1688 - 1691) 6th Horse (1691 - 1697) Arran's Horse (1697 - 1703) Cadogan's (1703 - 1712) Kellum's Horse (1712 - 1717) Napier's Horse (1717 - 1740) Neville's Horse (1740 - 1744) Cobham's Horse (1744 - 1745) Wentworth's Horse (1745 - 1746) 2nd Irish Horse (1746 - 1788) 5th Dragoon Guards (1788 - 1804) The 5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Dragoon Guards (1804 -)

Successor Units

5th/6th Dragoons (1922 - 1927) 5th Inniskilling Dragoon Guards (1927 - 1935) 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards (1935 - )

Suggested Reading

The Story of a Regiment of Horse (5th Princess of Wales's Dragoon Guards) 1685-1922 (2 vols) by R L Pomeroy (Blackwood 1924) Tracks in Europe by C J Boardman (privately printed - Home HQ 1980) The Story of the Fifth Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards by R Evans (London 1951) Change and Challenge: 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards 1928-1978 by C Blacker and H Woods (privately printed 1978)

Regimental Museum

The Cheshire Military Museum The Castle Chester CH1 2DN tel: 01244 327617 Open April-October 11am - 5pm (Sunday 2pm - 5.30pm)

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