Saturday, 13 February 2010

Battle honours

      

THE ROYAL DRAGOONS, (1ST DRAGOONS)

Raised in 1661 as the Tangier troop of Horse, later in 1690 becoming the Royal Regiment of Dragoons.

Regimental Battle Honours

1662 - 1680   Defence of Tangier

1740 - 1748 Dettingen  (War of the Austrian Succession)

1756 - 1763   Warbung  (Seven Years War)

1793 - 1802 Beaumont (French Revolutionary Wars)

1804 - 1814,  Fuentos d O'Noro (The Peninsula War)

1815  Battle of waterloo

1854 - 1855  Balaclava, Sevastopol,   During the Crimean War

1899 - 1902  Relief of Ladysmith,  During the Boer War

1914 - 1918  Ypres 1914, 1915, Fresenburg, Loos, Arras, Somme Amiens, Hindenburg Line, Cambrai, Pursuit to Mons. During the First World War.

1939 - 1945  Syria 1941, Knightsbridge, El Alamein, Advance on Tripoli, 1941- 1943, Sicily and Italy 1943, Nederrijn, Rhine, Northern Europe 1944 - 1945. during the Second World War

 

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7 comments:

  1. frank carter13 February 2010 at 13:16

    Knightsbridge ?? who did we take on there the BLUES? (Sorry couldnt resist )

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  2. paul graver13 February 2010 at 14:52

    Detmold 1967 RHA V Royals. We won.( couldn,t resist either)

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  3. Stan Whitworth17 February 2010 at 13:58

    Sorry John but you've got it all wrong mate. In all there were seventeen battle honours for the First World War and fifteen battle honours for the Second World War, of which only the first ten appear on the Guidon!, the remainder being shown only 'in the Army List. Because of a decision taken in 1922, each regiment was only ever allowed to display ten battle honours on it's Guidon. (I think I can hear some blokes turning over in their graves and quite rightly too!) So here's the complete list:

    First World War:

    “Ypres, 1914 – 1915”
    “Frezenberg”
    “Loos”
    “Arras, 1917”
    “Somme, 1918”
    “Amiens”
    “Hindenburg Line”
    “Cambrai, 1918”
    “Pursuit to Mons”
    “France and Flanders, 1914 – 1918”
    “Langemarck”
    “Gheluvelt”
    “Nonne Bosschen”
    “Scarpe, 1917”
    “St Quentin”
    “Avre”
    “Beaurevoir”

    Second World War:

    “Syria, 1941”
    “North Africa, 1941 – 43”
    “Knightsbridge”
    “El Alamein”
    “Advance on Tripoli”
    “Sicily, 1943”
    “Italy, 1943”
    “North-West Europe, 1944-45”
    “Nederrijn”
    “Rhine”
    “El Agheila”
    “Msus”
    “Gazala”
    “Defence of the Alamein Line”
    “Veghel”

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  4. JOHN ATKINS18 February 2010 at 01:50

    Thanks Stan, I got the list off a web site as it was part of the history of the 1st The Royal Dragoons and was copied from that site.

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  5. Keith Shaw18 February 2010 at 05:50

    0nce again Stan to the rescue, it seems before we put any thing down on paper we need to ask Stan to put his approval to it.Well done Stan

    Keith.

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  6. BRIAN ALLEN18 February 2010 at 15:31

    "STAN THE MAN" always comes up on top, reason being as a musician he had more time than us HARD DONE TO FIGHTING FORCE`S.(Sorry Stan just could not stop myself.)
    Oh will have to send you that KNACKERED DVD,to see if you can do owt with it.

    Bri.

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  7. Stan Whitworth18 February 2010 at 17:13

    Listen Pal, forget the music, you're now speaking to an "Agent Orange" veteran so watch it!
    Anyway, I was only doing me duty, like wot we did back in eerford, ain't that right Don?
    More likely your KNACKERED mate, not the DVD!

    Just made a start on me website. Wot do you think to me Front Page? - That's me in the pram wiv me brover. http://stanw.multiply.com/

    Agent Stan

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