of Horse in response to the Monmouth Rebellion) and the 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) (raised in 1685 by the Earl of Peterborough as Peterborough's...
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The 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) was a cavalry regiment of the British Army. It was first raised in 1685 by the Earl of Peterborough as the Earl of...
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the regiment amalgamated with the 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) in 1959 to form the 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards. The regiment was raised by Sir John...
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redesignated 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) (1872); redesignated The Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards) (1921); amalgamated to form 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards...
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seven Dragoon Guards regiments were the 1st King's Dragoon Guards, 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays), 3rd Dragoon Guards, 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards, 5th...
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Charles Edward Beckett (category 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) officers)
the 7th (The Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards, the 3rd (The King's Own) Hussars and the 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays), which he also commanded. He...
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Robert Blair (VC) (category 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) officers)
years old, and a lieutenant in the 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays), British Army, attached to 9th Lancers (The Queen's Royal) during the Indian Mutiny...
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Life Guards 2nd Life Guards Royal Horse Guards (The Blues) 1st King's Dragoon Guards 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) 3rd (Prince of Wales's) Dragoon Guards...
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Regiment (United States), also known as the 2nd Dragoons 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) 2nd Regiment (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists...
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King's Dragoon Guards -1959 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) -1922 3rd Dragoon Guards (Prince of Wales's) 1746-1922 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards -1922...
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P. C. Wren (category 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) soldiers)
Oxford, as well as briefly enlisting in the British Army's 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays). Wren worked as a boarding school teacher for a few years...
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Thomas Monaghan (VC) (category 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) soldiers)
Monmouthshire. At 25 years of age, Monaghan was a trumpeter in the 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays), British Army during the Indian Mutiny No. 1158. Trumpeter...
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Charles Craufurd (category 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) officers)
lieutenant in 1781, he was raised to the rank of captain in the 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) in 1785. He became the equerry and intimate friend of the...
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Charles Anderson (VC) (category 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) soldiers)
forces. Anderson was about 32 years old, and a private in the 2nd Queen's Dragoon Guards during the Indian Mutiny when the action for which he and Thomas...
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Maurice Johnston (British Army officer) (category 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) officers)
General Staff from 1968 to 1971 and commanding officer the 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards, 1971 to 1973, before promotion to brigadier, and command of the...
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Nevill Smyth (category 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) officers)
Military College, Sandhurst, in 1888. He was posted to the Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards) in India as a second lieutenant on 22 August 1888. In 1890...
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Edmund Hoyle Vestey (category 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) officers)
at Eton College, Berkshire, England, commissioned into the 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) in 1951 and served as an officer in the City of London Yeomanry...
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Coote Synge-Hutchinson (category 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) officers)
Synge-Hutchinson, of the 2nd Dragoon Guards, was awarded the Indian Mutiny Medal, with Lucknow clasp, for service with the 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays). He was later...
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Freeman Barnardo (category 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) officers)
of 75 and two of nought. He died on active service with the Queen's Bays 2nd Dragoon Guards during the Second World War, ten miles west of El Alamein in...
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Dick Mitchison, Baron Mitchison (category 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) officers)
barrister (called to the bar in 1917) and King's Counsel. He served with the Queen's Bays in the First World War, attaining the rank of Major and gaining the Croix...
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Royal Horse Artillery A, B, and I Batterys 2nd Cavalry Brigade 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) 9th Queen's Royal Lancers 1st Battalion, Rifle Brigade...
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John Talbot of Lacock (redirect from John Talbot (Dragoon Guards))
Cannon, Richard (1839). Historical Record of the Sixth Regiment of Dragoon Guards, or the Carabineers. HMSO. Childs, John (1976). The Army of Charles...
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James Dance (category 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) officers)
politician. He was educated at Eton College and was in the 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) during World War II. He was an insurance underwriter for Lloyd's...
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George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend (category 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) officers)
Earl with a bullet in the groin. Townshend became colonel of the 2nd Dragoon Guards in July 1773. In 1779 Richard Edwards, Governor of Newfoundland and...
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Alexander Young (VC) (category 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) soldiers)
Commonwealth forces. A native of Oranmore, County Galway, Young joined the Queen's Bays on 22 May 1890 at Renmore. He served for a time in India, becoming a...
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Wentworth Harman (category 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) officers)
1930 before retiring in 1934. Harman was also Colonel of the Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards). He is buried at Marnhull Churchyard in Dorset. In 1902 Harman...
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Wilson Jones (politician) (category 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) officers)
politician. Born at Cefn Coch in Denbighshire, Jones served in the 2nd Dragoon Guards. He became a magistrate for Denbighshire and Flintshire, a deputy...
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William Yates (politician) (category 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) officers)
Uppingham School and Hertford College, Oxford. He entered the 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) early in 1942 during the Second World War, and served through...
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21st Lancers Nevill Smyth, Captain, 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays), attached to the Egyptian Army. Queen's Sudan Medal, British campaign medal awarded...
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George Draffen (category 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) officers)
Second World War. Draffen was confirmed as a lieutenant in the 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) on 20 December 1920. He became the commanding officer of his...
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