5th Dragoon Guards


5th Dragoon Guards' Colonels


Charles Talbot
12th Earl of Shrewsbury
1685
Marmaduke Langdale
2nd Lord Langdale
1687
Richard Hamilton
1687
John Coy
1688
Charles Butler
1st Earl of Arran
1697
William Cadogan
1st Earl Cadogan KT
1703
George Kellum
1712
Robert Napier
1717
Clement Neville
1740
Sir Richard Temple
1st Viscount Cobham
1744
Thomas Wentworth
1745
Thomas Bligh
1747
John Waldegrave
3rd Viscount Waldegrave
1758
John Fitzwilliam
1760
John Douglas
1789
Thomas Bland
1790
HRH Prince Leopold of Saxe-Saalfield-Coburg
King Leopold I of Belgium
1816
Sir John Slade
1831
James Thomas Brudenell
7th Earl of Cardigan
1859
Sir James Yorke Scarlett
1860
Richard Parker
1871
Sir Thomas Westropp McMahon
1885
Sir Somerset John Gough-Calthorpe
7th Lord of Calthorpe
1892
Richard Temple Godman
1912
William Edward Marsland
1912
Sir George Tom Molesworth Bridges
1920


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