1st King's Dragoon Guards - Cranston Fine Arts Regiment Art
Name : 1st King's Dragoon Guards
Started : 1921 Ended : 1959
Notes : Raised as the 2nd Queen's Regiment of Horse in 1685, this regiment was eventually amalgamated with the Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards) in 1959 to become the present-day 1st Queen's Dragoon Guards.
Regimental Battle Honours
1701 - 1715 : Blenheim, Ramillies, Ourdenarde, Malplaquet - War of the Spanish Succession. 1740 - 1748 : Dettingen - War of the Austrian Succession. 1756 - 1763 : Warbung - Seven Years War 1793 - 1802 : Beaumont - French Revolutionary wars 1815 : Battle of Waterloo. 1854 - 1855 : Sevastopol - Crimean War 1857 - 1860 : Taku Forts, Pekin - Second Chinese War. 1877 - 1879 : Zulu and Basuto Wars. 1879 : South Africa. 1899 - 1902 : Boer War. 1914 - 1918 : Somme, Morval, France and Flanders - First World War. 1939 - 1945 : Beda Fomm, Defence of Tobruk, Tobruk 1941, Tobruk Sortie, Relief of Tobruk, Gazala, Bir Hacheim, Defence of Alamein Line, Alam el Halfa, El Agheila, Advance on Tripoli, Tebaga Gap, Point 201 (Roman Wall), El Hamma, Akarit, Tunis, North Africa 1941–43, Capture of Naples, Scafati Bridge, Monte Camino, Garigliano Crossing, Capture of Perugia, Arezzo, Gothic Line, Italy 1943–44, Athens, Greece 1944–45 - World War Two.
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