5th Dragoon Guards


5th Dragoon Guards' Commanding Officers



The Hon John D'Arcy
29th July 1685
George Kellum
1704 - 1712
Lieutenat-Colonel R Taylor
c1793
Lieutenat-Colonel Sherlock
c1798
The Hon Sir William Ponsonby
1803 - July 1812
Sir James Maxwell Wallace
1824 - 1840
Sir James Yorke Scarlett
1840 - 1854
Sir Thomas Westropp McMahon
1854 - 1861
Hon Somerset John Gough-Calthorpe
1861 - 1869
Frederick Hay Swinfen
1869 - 1871
Richard Temple Godman
1871 - 1877
William Edward Marsland
1877 - 1882
Sir James Dyson Bourne
1882 - 1883
Edward Alfred Jee
1883 - 1885
Frederick M Kenyon-Stow
1885 - 1887
John B Ballantyne Dickson CB
1887 - 1893
Maunsell Bowers
1893 - 1897
R R S Baden-Powell
Sir St John Corbet Gore
1899 - 1903
William John Chesshyre Butler
1903 - 1907
Henry Gerard Hegan Kennard CBE
1907 - 1911
G K Ansell
1911 - 1914
W Q Winwood CMG DSO OBE
1914 - 1918


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