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Royal Armoured Corps |
| 17th Century and earlier | 18th Century | 19th Century | 20th Century | Modern Regiment Name |
| The Queen's Regiment of Horse raised 1685 ranked as 2nd Horse | The King's Dragoon Guards ranked
as 1st Dragoon Guards 1746
1st (King's) Dragoon Guards 1751 |
1st King's Dragoon Guards 1921 | 1st The Queen's Dragoon
Guards (QDG) 1959
The senior Cavalry regiment of the Line, "The Welsh Cavalry". |
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| Earl of Peterborough's Regiment of Horse raised 1685 ranked as 3rd Horse | The Queen's Dragoon Guards ranked
as 2nd Dragoon Guards 1746
2nd (The Queen's) Regiment of Dragoon Guards 1751 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) 1780 |
2nd Dragoon Guards (The Queen's Bays) 1921 | ||
| Raised as three independent troops
of Dragoons in 1678.
The Royal Regiment of Scots Dragoons, or, His Majesty's Regiment of Dragoons formed 1681 ranked as 2nd Dragoons 1688 |
Royal Regiment of North British Dragoons 1737 | 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys) 1877 | The Royal Scots Greys (Second Dragoons) 1921 | The Royal Scots Dragoon
Guards (Carabiniers and Greys) (SCOTS DG) 1971
Oldest surviving Cavalry of the Line in the British Army (via Royal Scots Greys) Scotland's senior regiment and her only regiment of cavalry. |
| 4th Horse (Earl of Plymouth's) raised 1685 | 3rd Regiment of Dragoon Guards 1751
3rd (The Prince of Wales's) Dragoon Guards 1765 |
3rd/6th Dragoon Guards
formed in 1922
The 3rd Carabiniers (Prince of Wales's Dragoon Guards) 1928 |
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| The
Queen Dowager's Regiment of Horse a.k.a. Lord Lumley's 9th Horse
raised 1685.
The King's Regiment of Carabineers 1692 |
His Majesty's 1st Regiment of Carabiniers
1740
3rd Regiment of Horse 1751 3rd Regiment of Horse (Carabiniers) 1756 |
6th Regiment of Dragoon Guards (Carabineers) 1826 | ||
| Earl of Arran's Regiment of Cuirassiers raised 1685 | 1st Regiment of Horse 1751
4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards 1788 |
4th/7th Royal Dragoon
Guards 1922
previously 4th/7th Dragoon Guards |
The Royal Dragoon Guards (RDG) 1992 Northern Ireland's cavalry regiment. |
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| Devonshire's Horse raised 1688 a.k.a. Lord Cavendish's Regiment of Horse | 4th Regiment of Horse 1751
7th (Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards 1788 |
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| Shrewsbury's Horse raised 1685 | 2nd Regiment of Horse 1751
5th Regiment of Dragoon Guards 1788 |
5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Dragoon Guards 1823 | 5/6th Dragoons 1922
5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards 1935 |
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| (Albert) Cunningham's (Conyngham's) Dragoons raised in Enniskillen in 1689 | 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons 1751 | |||
| Duke of Somerset's Regiment of Dragoons raised 1685 | 3rd (King's Own) Regiment of Dragoons 1751 | 3rd (The King's Own) Hussars 1861 | The Queen's Own Hussars 1958 | The Queen's Royal
Hussars (The Queen's Own and Royal Irish) (QRH) 1993
The senior Light Cavalry regiment in the British Army. |
| independent
troops on Scots Establishment 1689
The Queen's Own Regiment of Dragoons raised 1690 |
7th (The Queen's Own) Regiment of Dragoons 1751 | 7th (The Queen's Own) Hussars 1861 | ||
| The Princess Anne of Denmark's Regiment of Dragoons, a.k.a. Berkeley's Dragoons raised 1685 | 4th Regiment of Dragoons 1751 | 4th (The Queen's Own) Hussars 1861 | The Queen's Royal Irish Hussars 1958 | |
| Henry Cunningham's Regiment of Dragoons raised 1693 | 8th Regiment of Dragoons 1751
8th Regiment of Light Dragoons 1775 |
8th (The King's Royal Irish) Hussars 1861 | ||
| Owen Wynne's Regiment of Dragoons
raised 1715
9th Regiment of Dragoons 1751 |
1816 converted to Lancers
9th (or Queen's Royal) Lancers 1830 |
9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's) 1960 | 9th/12th Royal Lancers
(Prince of Wales's) (9/12 L) |
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| Phineas Bowles's Regiment of Dragoons
raised 1715
12th Regiment of Dragoons 1751 12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's) 1715 |
12th (The Prince of Wales's) Royal Regiment of Lancers 1861 | |||
| Humphrey Gore's Regiment of Dragoons
raised 1715
10th Regiment of Dragoons 1751 |
10th (Prince of Wales's Own Royal) Hussars 1861 | The Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own) 1969 | The King's Royal Hussars (KRH) 1992 | |
| Philip Honeywood's Regiment of Dragoons
raised 1715
11th Regiment of Dragoons 1751 |
11th (or Prince Albert's Own) Hussars 1861 | |||
| James Dormer's Regiment of Dragoons
raised 1715
14th Regiment of Dragoons 1751 |
14th (King's) Hussars 1861 | 14th/20th Hussars 1922 | ||
| 2nd Bengal European Light Cavalry
raised 1858
Transferred from HEIC to British Army as 20th Regiment of Hussars 1862 |
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| Richard Munden's Regiment of Dragoons
raised 1715
13th Regiment of Dragoons 1751 |
13th Hussars 1861 | 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary’s Own) 1922 | The Light Dragoons (LD) 1992 | |
| 18th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
raised 1858
18th Hussars 1861 Later 18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) 1921 |
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| 15th (or Light) Regiment of Dragoons
raised 1759 a.k.a. Eliott's Light Horse |
15th (The King's) Hussars 1861 | 15th/19th The King’s Royal Hussars 1922 | ||
| 1st Bengal European Light Cavalry
raised 1858 (HEIC)
Transferred to British Army as 19th Regiment of Hussars 1862 |
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| 23rd Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
raised 1781
19th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons 1786 |
disbanded 1821
Deemed to be succeeded by 19th Regiment of Hussars 1874 |
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| The Enniskilling Horse or Wynne's Dragoons raised 1689 | Disbanded in Ireland 1799 | Reformed in 1861 as the 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers | 16th/5th Lancers 1922 | The Queen's Royal Lancers (QRL) 1993 |
| 16th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
raised 1759. a.k.a. Burgoyne's Light Horse
16th (or The Queen's) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons 1769 |
16th (or Queen's) Lancers 1861 | |||
| 18th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
raised 1759 a.k.a. Hale's Light Horse
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17th Regiment of Lancers 1861
17th (The Duke of Cambridge's Own) Lancers 1876 |
17th/21st Lancers 1922 | ||
| Raised by George III in 1760 as Light
Dragoons
21st Light Dragoons disbanded in 1763 |
3rd Bengal European Light Cavalry
raised 1858 (HEIC)
Transferred to British Army as 21st Regiment of Hussars 1862 Later 21st Lancers (Empress of India's) 1921 |
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1st (Light) Battalion, Royal Tank Corps in 1934 Amalgamated with 4 RTR (1993). |
1st Battalion Royal Tank Regiment (1 RTR) | |||
B Battalion, the Heavy Branch. Machine Gun Corps (MGC) 1917 Amalgamated with 3 RTR (1992) |
2nd Battalion Royal Tank regiment (2 RTR) 2nd RTR was the 1st unit in the British Army to wear berets which were later adopted by the rest of the Army. |