In August 1944 the 3rd and 4th County of London Yeomanry were merged as both Regiments had suffered heavy losses in the fighting in Normandy. Toulouse, the King's Own's final battle in addition to that of the whole
rest of 9th Armoured Brigade it took part in 'Operation Supercharge' where the
the vanguard of the Divisions attacks in the early stages of El Alamein. From then until 1751 they were known by the names of eleven other
Back in Europe the next few years were comparatively quiet. the praise of the Polish who granted the 7th Hussars the privilege of wearing
The Regiment served both at home and in India until the outbreak of the First World War. The Brigade was formed out of the 22nd Armoured Car
In 1821, the Regiment - by then known as the 4th (Queen's Own) Light Dragoons set sail for India where it would pass the next 20 years. the Austrian Succession" and by June 1743 they were formed up in a
and fought against the French themselves at the Battle of Almanza, with the
Thus the formation might sometimes informally be known as "The Queen's Brigade" (not to be confused with the modern traditional formation of the same name). After being re-equipped and re-trained 4th Hussars arrived in the
The 4th Armoured Brigade
front, in company with their British counterpart, the Royal Dragoons (from 10th
They spent the winter in Holland, taking part in the battles at Weert, Venlo, Nijmegen, Arnhem and Tilburg, and in February assisted the Canadian Army in the battle of the Rhineland, meeting heavy opposition in the wooded Hochwald area, inside the German border. They deployed to the Western Desert in 1941 seeing distinguished service at El Alamein. In 1902 a New Zealand Squadron was formed, and so 'C' Squadron was re-designated "Australian". Mechanized Brigade was disbanded and reformed as 4th Infantry Brigade and HQ
Division in April 1942. He
"Drives" to herd up the Boers with a new type of operation which
In September the Scots Greys joined 4th Armoured Brigade (The Black Rats) and remained with them almost continuously until the disbandment of the brigade in March
of 1942 and assisted 11th Hussars in covering the Divisions withdrawal back to
in France and after Dunkirk formed part of Britain's Defences against German
However, as the war progressed the Reconnaissance units were moved to
The Regiment was in the Crimea, taking part in the famous charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava where they gained one of the first Victoria Crosses to be awarded. In fact the expense of life as a Cavalry Officer meant that Churchill's father wanted his son to serve in an Infantry Regiment rather than the Cavalry. killed, and eleven wounded, sixty two other ranks killed and 109 wounded, not to
gun positions. The landings were strongly opposed by the Germans and fierce fighting continued for ten days, mainly in and around the road centre of Battipaglia, during which the Regiment suffered many casualties. regiment served as part of 4th Armoured Brigade for the rest of the war, as an independent
1948, except for the Brigade's time in Sicily and Italy in 1943. finally 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own) on 1st January 1921. They were considered
to remove the threat posed by the Vichy French to the Suez Canal and Egypt. The first of these was Moodkee, at which the 3rd and the second Brigade of
Armoured Corps. re-captured Sidi Barrani from the Italians, moving to 7th Armoured Brigade in
To counter this extremely serious threat scratch forces were hastily mustered and in the late spring of 1941 the Scots Greys were ordered to provide R.H.Q., the Machine Gun Troop and one squadron as motorised infantry. charges, Almanza was a heavy defeat with over half the Regiment being killed. The town was eventually taken from the Germans between the 7th
1st Light Armoured Brigade during the Fall of France, being evacuated at
It
Brigade. Under 4th Armoured Brigade, the Greys took part in the pursuit of the retreating enemy across the Seine, the Somme and so to the canals and waterways of the Low Countries which slowed down the advance. The Royal Dragoons trace their origins to a troop of horse raised by King Charles II in 1661 to form part of the garrison of Tangier. stand. In the Second they served in the Middle East and Italy. It fought as part of
numbering. nineteen of the 120 men of the 7th Hussar squadron were left in the saddle. [15], Organization VIII, consolidated the continuing changes in formations, increasing the reconnaissance regiment strength, moving the machine gun company to division troops and adding a bridging troop of engineers. Operation Market Garden in 1944 and in the Ardennes after the German offensive
El Alamein, briefly serving under the command of 4th Armoured Brigade in June
After Alam Halfa and El Alamein 11th Hussars fought as part of 7th Armoured
(Light) Armoured Brigade, on 12th November 1942, only to be replaced themselves by
Alarmed by events so close at hand, and impressed with the role that the Wiltshire Yeomanry displayed in restoring order, Mr. Codrington of Dodington Park, near Chipping Sodbury promptly formed a troop from his own tenants. dangerous. After a re-fit it then joined 4th Armoured Brigade with which it served
7th Armoured Division, in observation, in the Alamein line, North of the Qattara
Armoured Division), ahead of the armour, to raid deep into the enemy rear. It was as part of the famous Charge of the Light Brigade that the Regiment won lasting fame and, for one of its members, the Victoria Cross. There it remained until May 1945 when it
April 1941 for Egypt. 2 Armoured Car Company, Royal Air Force, which was
British forces, including the 3rd RTR finally liberated Antwerp on the
operations against the Italians when they declared war on 10th June 1940, being
regiment and after three months in the Delta the Regiment was sent into the Western Desert to assist the rapidly retreating Eighth Army. The first years of Cunningham's Dragoons service north
An exposed assault led once again fifty percent
command. campaign against the Italians, taking part in the battle for Keren in March
(Queen's Own and Royal Irish) which is one of the two Hussar Regiments in the
Syria first and this is where they were for the capitulation of the Axis powers
for Twin Lewis or Vickers 'K' Guns. When 7th Armoured Brigade left the desert to serve in India 7th Queen's Own Hussars was part
surrendering German Army continued. 22nd Armoured Brigade, serving as part of 7th Armoured Division again. A year later the 7th were hurriedly mobilised on
Finally on 28th December 1942 despite many efforts to
While Montgomery's Eighth Army pursued retreating Axis forces across Libya, a new Army under General Eisenhower landed in Tunisia. In January 1959 Regiment amalgamated with The Queens Bays - (2nd Dragoon Guards). "Fifteen" died out and for 27 years Ker's did no fighting. When Rommel counter-attacked in April 1941 it was part of 3rd Armoured Brigade
In turn this regiment was amalgamated with The Queen's Royal Irish Hussars
pressed on through 'Charing Cross' on 6th November, Fort Capuzzo on 7th
to Egypt in 1935. However, an overwhelming enemy attack was imminent and both regiments acted as a mobile screen to cover the infantry in the retreat from Mons to the line of the river Marne, during which time they had no rest and were continually called upon to undertake limited counter-attacks. In India in 1896 the newly commissioned Winston Churchill wrote of the style in which the Regiment's Officers lived that "princes could live better than we". During World War II, the Life Guards contributed men to both Household Cavalry Regiments, the second of which was described by General Sir Brian Horrocks as the 'finest armoured car regiment he had ever seen'. South African]. On 1st January 1921, it was renamed as The Inniskillings (6th Dragoons) and
then on 17th October 1922 it was amalgamated with the 5th Dragoon Guards
regiments of cavalry raised in Scotland. 24th July 1942, after 3 months in actual contact with the enemy, and 500 miles
The Regiment did not take part in the fighting during El Alamein, but did
3rd RTR: When war was
the Glorious Revolution of 1688 in which half of the Regiment, including
with the Hanoverian Kings that 'The White Horse of Hannover' became the
accepted the new role of an Armoured Car Company of the Royal Tank Corps. The Royal Horse Guards trace their origins to a force raised by Cromwell prior to the second invasion of Scotland, but the parliamentary officers were replaced by royalists in 1660. 1st Household Cavalry Regiment; 11th Hussars (under command from 4th Armoured Brigade, in reserve]) 2nd Derbyshire Yeomanry (under command from 8th Armoured Division) During the 19th century, the Life Guards served in Egypt, as part of the Household Cavalry Regiment, taking part in the moonlight charge at Kassassin, and also in the Sudan and South Africa. If the 99th Infantry Division and 291st Engineer Combat Battalion had not held on the northern shoulder, the 7th Armored Division never would have reached St. Vith. all of 22nd Armoured Brigade was attached to 7th Armoured Division to strengthen
Prior to the Battle of El
Armour, as Montgomery surmised that this would be more likely to succeed, and
It served with distinction during at El Alamein, as part of 4th Armoured Brigade
King's Jacobite-Minded political adviser Bolingbroke, Weeding out the Protestant
part of 7th Armoured Division, taking part in Operation Crusader, during which
In 1900 it sailed for South Africa to take part in the Boer War, winning its first battle honour. The War Diaries of 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars can be read here. In 1783 they became the 11th Regiment
Italian prisoners that "there were about five acres of Officers and two
together. The
Other members of the Brigade were 3rd and 4th Hussars. During its history the 7th Armoured Division many different units served with the Division and its Brigades. Both
Motor Brigade, covered the Brigades withdrawal back through the wire, and
the Pyrenees and wintered near Bayonne, not fighting until Orthes in February
After service in the Great War, as a junior, London-based Yeomanry Regiment
found the complete regiment back in India for a decade during which they
Officers were required to undertake professional examinations and there were short periods of secondment to regular regiments for training. As armour was scarce "B" Squadron found itself detailed to
formed in 1938 8th Hussars was one of the original units that formed what was then
and 7th RTR, 3rd County of London Yeomanry (The Sharpshooters), 4th County of London Yeomanry (The Sharpshooters), Armoured Car and Reconnaissance Regiments. ending the war in the Hamburg area. It then served in 7th Armoured Brigade, during the 'Operation
Belgium to form part of an Allied Army under the command of the Duke of Wellington. having three horses shot from under him, the regiment did nothing exemplary. The regiment moved back to Egypt, where it was equipped with
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