7th Hussars


In Collaboration With Charles Griffin


Organisation

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Private with Officer's Charger 1812
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On Exercise 1875
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Narrative History

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Privates Patrolling 1850
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Campaigns
After the Indian Mutiny, the 7th spent more than a decade in India, the first four of which they were stationed at Umballa. In 1863 they moved to Peshawar. It may be of interest to quote some facts and figures from the regimental records of the time to give an idea of the size of a cavalry regiment in the mid 19th century. The 7th had just been reduced in size from 9 troops to 8, having seven troops in India and one at home in England. The strength was as follows:
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Shabkadr 1864
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Badge
Badge
Nicknames
Old Saucy Seventh
Strawboots
The Lily White Seventh
Young Eyes
Motto
Honi Soit Qui Mal y Pense
Evil be to Him who Evil Thinks
Depot
Bristol
Regimental Marches
Bannocks o' Barley Meal (Quick)
The Campbells are coming (Canter)
In the Garb of Old Gaul (Slow)
Reid
Regimental Anniversary
Waterloo day 18 June
Colonels
1805 - 1958
Lieutenant Colonels
1805 - 1958
Soldiers
1805 - 1958
Uniforms
1805 - 1958
Equipment
Lances
Martini-Henry Carbine
Accoutrements
Sabretaches
Drumhorses
1805 - 1958
Principal Campaigns and Battles
1808 - 1809 Peninsula
1808 Sahagun
1809 Carrion
1809 Benevente
1809 Corunna
1813 - 1814 Peninsula
1814 Orthes
1814 Toulouse
1815 Hundred Days
1815 Waterloo
1838 - 1839 Canada
1858 Indian Mutiny
1858 Lucknow
1881 Transvaal
1896 Rhodesia
1901 - 1902 South Africa
1914 - 1918 The Great War
1918 Khan Baghdadi
1918 Sharqat
1939 - 1945 Second World War
1940 Egyptian Frontier
1940 Beda Fomm
1941 Sidi Rezegh
1942 Burma
1944 Ancona
Predecessor Units
7th Dragoons
(1690 - 1783)
7th Light Dragoons
(1783 - 1805)
Successor Units
Queen's Own Hussars
(1958 - 1993)
Queen's Royal Hussars
(1993 -)
Suggested Reading
The Queen's Own Hussars
by John Maurice Brereton

Historical Record of the Seventh or Queen's Own Regiment of Hussars
(London, Parker, 1842)

The Years Between: The story of the 7th Queen's Own Hussars, 1911 - 1937
by Evans, R. (Gale & Polden, 1965)

The Seventh and Three Enemies: The Story of World War II and the 7th Queen's Own Hussars
by Davy, G. M. O. (Heffer, 1953)

The 7th Queen's Own Hussars
by Barret, C. R. B. (RUSI, 1914)

Regimental Museum
Lord Leycester Hospital
High St.
Warwick
Warwickshire



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