official when they became the 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys), which was inverted in 1921 to The Royal Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons). They kept this title until...
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The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys) is a cavalry regiment of the British Army, and the senior Scottish regiment. The regiment, through...
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The Scots Army (Scots: Scots Airmy) was the army of the Kingdom of Scotland between the Restoration in 1660 and the Acts of Union of 1707. A small standing...
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British Rail Class 55 (redirect from Royal Scots Grey)
Commons has media related to British Rail Class 55. Royal Scots Grey – owners of Royal Scots Grey The Deltic Preservation Society – owners of several...
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Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (redirect from A Royal Life)
Royal Scots Greys 29 July 1961: Captain, Royal Scots Greys 31 December 1967: Major, Royal Scots Greys 30 June 1973: Lieutenant Colonel, Royal Scots Dragoon...
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painting by Lady Butler depicting the start of the charge of the Royal Scots Greys, a British heavy cavalry regiment that charged with other British...
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3rd Carabiniers (category Royal Scots Dragoon Guards)
1928 and amalgamated with the Royal Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons), forming the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys) in 1971. The regiment was...
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James Hamilton (British Army officer, born 1777) (category Royal Scots Greys officers)
Royal Scots Greys. On 4 June 1814, Hamilton was promoted to colonel. By the time of the Battle of Waterloo he was a Lt. Colonel, commanding the Royal...
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charge of the Royal Scots Greys at Waterloo in June 1815 Painting of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Scots Greys, by Valentin...
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Prince Arthur of Connaught (category Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst)
Dragoons (The Royal Scots Greys) (27 April 1907) Bvt Maj: Brevet Major (14 October 1913) Maj: Major, 2nd Dragoons (The Royal Scots Greys) (19 August 1915)...
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Charles Ewart (category Royal Scots Greys officers)
March 1846) was a Scottish soldier of the Royal North British Dragoons (more commonly known as the Scots Greys), famous for capturing the regimental eagle...
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John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer (category Royal Scots Greys officers)
family and friends as Johnnie Althorp, he served as a captain in the Royal Scots Greys from 1944 to 1945, and was Mentioned in Dispatches. He landed in France...
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John Forbes (British Army officer) (category Royal Scots Greys officers)
Edinburgh University. In September 1729, he was appointed surgeon in the Royal Scots Greys, then based in Scotland. He remained with the regiment for the next...
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the cap badge of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys) (descended from the Royal Scots Greys) is an eagle. The Royal Irish Regiment wear...
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the Royal Scots Greys and 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen’s Bays), even specifying colour. Trumpeters, too, often rode distinctive horses, such as greys, so...
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Alastair Windsor, 2nd Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (category Royal Scots Greys officers)
Bryanston and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was commissioned on 31 January 1935 as a second lieutenant into the Royal Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons)...
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Princes Street Gardens (section Royal Scots Monument)
the obstetric pioneer James Young Simpson. Other monuments are the Royal Scots Greys Memorial, the Scottish American War Memorial, the Norwegian Brigade...
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John Eliot, 6th Earl of St Germans (category Royal Scots Greys officers)
Broadstairs, Kent and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He subsequently became a captain in the 2nd Dragoons of the Scots Greys, and fought in the First...
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Christian Davies (category Royal Scots Greys soldiers)
Dragoons: The Scots Greys, (London, 1908), p. 32. Broderick, p. 93. Broderick, p. 94. Charles Grant and Michael Youens, Royal Scots Greys, (Oxford: Osprey...
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Ranulph Fiennes (category Royal Scots Greys officers)
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes. Whilst commanding the Royal Scots Greys in Italy Fiennes' father trod on a German anti-personnel S-mine and...
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Peter Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 8th Earl Fitzwilliam (category Royal Scots Greys officers)
Training Corps, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Royal Scots Greys on the Supplementary Reserve of Officers. During the Second World...
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Edward, Duke of Kent (Royal Scots Greys) Prince Michael of Kent (11th Hussars) Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (The King's Royal Rifle Corps) Prince Arthur...
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Harry Scobell (category Royal Scots Greys officers)
from the Scots Greys to serve as the adjutant of the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry. In 1896, Scobell would be promoted to major in the Scots Greys. In 1899...
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Dragoon Guards) and The Royal Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons) amalgamated in 1971 to form the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys) Formed by the amalgamation...
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Maurice Roëves (category Royal Scots Greys soldiers)
Service in the Royal Scots Greys, where he was a tank mechanic. After he left the Army he studied at the College of Dramatic Art at the Royal Conservatoire...
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Edward Cheney (category Royal Scots Greys officers)
in 1812. His regiment, known as the Royal North British Dragoons, was more commonly known as the Royal Scots Greys due to their choice of pale horses....
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4th/8th Hussars 11th Hussars Royal Scots Greys 2nd Derbyshire Yeomanry 1st Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps 3rd Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery Troop from...
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Melville Jameson (category Royal Scots Greys officers)
the post. Sir Melville was commissioned into the Royal Scots Greys in 1964, commanded the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards between 1986 and 1988, was promoted...
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the horses of the Royal Scots Greys by General Dalyell. The pond was also used again as a watering place for the Royal Scots Greys regiment in 1935 when...
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