The 4th Queen's Own Hussars was a
cavalry regiment
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in the
British Army
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, first raised in 1685. It saw service for three centuries, including the
First World War
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and the
Second World War
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. It amalgamated with the
8th King's Royal Irish Hussars
The 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars was a cavalry regiment in the British Army, first raised in 1693. It saw service for three centuries including the First and Second World Wars. The regiment survived the immediate post-war reduction in forces ...
, to form the
Queen's Royal Irish Hussars in 1958.
History
Formation and early history
The regiment was first raised by the Hon. John Berkeley as The Princess Anne of Denmark's Regiment of Dragoons in 1685, as part of the response to the
Monmouth Rebellion
The Monmouth Rebellion, also known as the Pitchfork Rebellion, the Revolt of the West or the West Country rebellion, was an attempt to depose James II, who in February 1685 succeeded his brother Charles II as king of England, Scotland and Ir ...
by the regimenting of various independent troops, and ranked as the 4th Dragoons.
The regiment transferred its allegiance to
King William III in February 1689 and fought the depleted forces of
James II in Scotland later that year.
The regiment saw action at the
Battle of Steenkerque
The Battle of Steenkerque, also known as ''Steenkerke'', ''Steenkirk'' or ''Steinkirk'' was fought on 3 August 1692, during the Nine Years' War, near Steenkerque, then part of the Spanish Netherlands but now in modern Belgium A French force ...
, where it suffered heavy losses, in August 1692 and at the
Siege of Namur in July 1695 during the
Nine Years' War
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.
[ The regiment suffered heavy losses again at the ]Battle of Almansa
The Battle of Almansa took place on 25 April 1707, during the War of the Spanish Succession. It was fought between an army loyal to Philip V of Spain, Bourbon claimant to the Spanish throne, and one supporting his Habsburg rival, Archduke Charl ...
in April 1707 during the War of the Spanish Succession
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and next fought at the Battle of Sheriffmuir in November 1715 during the Jacobite rising
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.[
The regiment saw action at the Battle of Dettingen in June 1743, when Trooper George Daraugh bravely recovered the regimental standard that had been seized by a French officer during the ]War of the Austrian Succession
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. The regiment suffered a serious reverse when it was ambushed during a series of disastrous events leading up to Fall of Ghent in July 1745 and then fought bravely to mitigate the British defeat at the Battle of Lauffeld in July 1747.[ The regiment was formally titled as the 4th Regiment of Dragoons in 1751 and, having helped suppress the ]Gordon Riots
The Gordon Riots of 1780 were several days of rioting in London motivated by anti-Catholic sentiment. They began with a large and orderly protest against the Papists Act 1778, which was intended to reduce official discrimination against Briti ...
in 1780, it was named for Queen Charlotte
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as the 4th (Queen's Own) Regiment of Dragoons in 1788.[
The regiment fought at the ]Battle of Talavera
The Battle of Talavera (27–28 July 1809) was fought just outside the town of Talavera de la Reina, Spain some southwest of Madrid, during the Peninsular War. At Talavera, a British army under Sir Arthur Wellesley combined with a Spanish a ...
in July 1809 under Sir Arthur Wellesley
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and then contributed to a successful ambush of the enemy at the Battle of Usagre
In the Battle of Usagre on 25 May 1811, Anglo-Allied cavalry commanded by Major-General William Lumley routed a French cavalry force led by Major-General Marie Victor Latour-Maubourg at the village of Usagre in the Peninsular War.
Backg ...
in May 1811 during the Peninsular War
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.[ The regiment took part in a successful charge at the ]Battle of Salamanca
The Battle of Salamanca (in French and Spanish known as the Battle of Arapiles) on 22July 1812 was a battle in which an Anglo-Portuguese army under the Earl of Wellington defeated Marshal Auguste Marmont's French forces at Arapiles, so ...
in July 1812 and in the aftermath seized some of Joseph Bonaparte
it, Giuseppe-Napoleone Buonaparte es, José Napoleón Bonaparte
, house = Bonaparte
, father = Carlo Buonaparte
, mother = Letizia Ramolino
, birth_date = 7 January 1768
, birth_place = Corte, Corsica, Republic ...
's silver; it then fought at the Battle of Vitoria
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in June 1813 and at the Battle of Toulouse in April 1814.[ The regiment was designated a light dragoons in 1818, becoming the 4th (The Queen's Own) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons and went to fight at the Battle of Ghazni in July 1839 during the ]First Anglo-Afghan War
The First Anglo-Afghan War ( fa, جنگ اول افغان و انگلیس) was fought between the British Empire and the Emirate of Kabul from 1838 to 1842. The British initially successfully invaded the country taking sides in a succession di ...
.[
The regiment next saw action, as part of the light brigade under the command of Major General the ]Earl of Cardigan
Earl of Cardigan is a title in the Peerage of England, currently held by the Marquesses of Ailesbury, and used as a courtesy title by the heir apparent to that Marquessate, currently David Brudenell-Bruce, Earl of Cardigan, son of the 8th Mar ...
, at the Battle of Alma
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in September 1854. The regiment was in the second line of cavalry on the right flank during the Charge of the Light Brigade
The Charge of the Light Brigade was a failed military action involving the British light cavalry led by Lord Cardigan against Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava on 25 October 1854 in the Crimean War. Lord Raglan had intended to ...
at the Battle of Balaclava
The Battle of Balaclava, fought on 25 October 1854 during the Crimean War, was part of the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–55), an Allied attempt to capture the port and fortress of Sevastopol, Russia's principal naval base on the Black Sea. The en ...
in October 1854. The brigade drove through the Russian artillery before smashing straight into the Russian cavalry and pushing them back; it was unable to consolidate its position, however, having insufficient forces and had to withdraw to its starting position, coming under further attack as it did so.[ The regiment lost four officers and 55 men in the debacle.][ Private Samuel Parkes was awarded the ]Victoria Cross
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during the charge for saving the life of a Trumpeter, Hugh Crawford.
The regiment became the 4th (Queen's Own) Hussars in 1861.[ ]Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and again from ...
was commissioned as a cornet
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in the 4th Hussars in February 1895.
First World War
The regiment, which was based on the Curragh at the commencement of the First World War
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, landed in France as part of the 3rd Cavalry Brigade in the 2nd Cavalry Division in August 1914 for service on the Western Front Western Front or West Front may refer to:
Military frontiers
* Western Front (World War I), a military frontier to the west of Germany
*Western Front (World War II), a military frontier to the west of Germany
*Western Front (Russian Empire), a maj ...
.[ The regiment took part in the ]Great Retreat
The Great Retreat (), also known as the retreat from Mons, was the long withdrawal to the River Marne in August and September 1914 by the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and the French Fifth Army. The Franco-British forces on the Western Fro ...
in September 1914, the First Battle of Ypres
The First Battle of Ypres (french: Première Bataille des Flandres; german: Erste Flandernschlacht – was a battle of the First World War, fought on the Western Front around Ypres, in West Flanders, Belgium. The battle was part of the Firs ...
in October 1914 and the Second Battle of Ypres
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in April 1915.[ The regiment also helped halt the German advance at the ]Battle of Moreuil Wood
The Battle of Moreuil Wood (30 March 1918) was an engagement of World War I that took place on the banks of the river Avre in France, where the Canadian Cavalry Brigade attacked and forced the German 23rd Saxon Division to withdraw from More ...
in March 1918 in a conflict that saw the regiment’s commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel John Darley, killed in action.[
]
Inter-war
The regiment was retitled as the 4th Queen's Own Hussars in 1921: it moved to India
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that year and remained there until 1931; the regiment mechanised in 1936 and was transferred to the Royal Armoured Corps
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in 1939.[
]
Second World War
The regiment was posted to the Middle East
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arriving on 31 December 1940 and as part of the 1st Armoured Brigade in the 6th Australian Infantry Division fought in the Greek Campaign.[ As the rearguard in the Corinth Canal Bridge action the regiment was overrun and surrendered losing all senior officers and over 400 men as ]prisoners of war
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Belligerents hold prisoners of w ...
.[ In June 1941, the regiment was reconstituted in Cairo and rejoined the 1st Armoured Brigade. Badly mauled during the ]Battle of Gazala
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in May 1942 and having lost almost an entire squadron, which had been attached to the 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters)
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, in June 1942, the regiment was temporarily amalgamated with one squadron from the (similarly depleted) 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars
The 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars was a cavalry regiment in the British Army, first raised in 1693. It saw service for three centuries including the First and Second World Wars. The regiment survived the immediate post-war reduction in forces ...
to form the 4th/8th Hussars for the Battle of Alam el Halfa
The Battle of Alam el Halfa took place between 30 August and 5 September 1942 south of El Alamein during the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War. '' Panzerarmee Afrika'' (''Generalfeldmarschall'' Erwin Rommel), attempted an envelopme ...
in August 1942 and the Second Battle of El Alamein
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in October 1942. The regiment fought with distinction in the Italian campaign during the allied advance into the Axis territories.[ Winston Churchill became Honorary Colonel of the Regiment in 1941 and served until amalgamation.][
]
Post-war
After the Second World War, the 4th Hussars deployed to Lübeck
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in Germany
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in March 1947 from where the regiment was sent to serve in the Federation of Malaya
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in September 1948. It returned to the UK in December 1951 and was then posted to Caen Barracks in Hohne in September 1953.[ The regiment was slated for reduction in the ]1957 Defence White Paper
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, and was amalgamated with the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars
The 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars was a cavalry regiment in the British Army, first raised in 1693. It saw service for three centuries including the First and Second World Wars. The regiment survived the immediate post-war reduction in forces ...
, to form the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars in 1958.[
]
Regimental museum
The regimental collection is based at a new facility in Warwick
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known as "Trinity Mews": the museum opened in April 2022.
Battle Honours
The battle honours of the regiment were as follows:
*''Early Wars'': Dettingen, Talavera, Albuhera, Salamanca, Vittoria, Toulouse, Peninsula, Ghuznee 1839, Afghanistan 1839, Alma, Balaklava, Inkerman, Sevastopol
*''The Great War'': Mons, Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons
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, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914
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, Armentières 1914, Ypres 1914 '15, Langemarck 1914, Gheluvelt, St. Julien, Bellewaarde, Arras 1917
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, Scarpe 1917
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, Cambrai 1917, Somme 1918 Somme 1918 was a battle honour awarded to units of the British and Imperial Armies that took part in one or more of the following engagements in the Great War:T.F. MillFrance and Flanders(archive of Regiments.org page)
*First Battle of the Somme (1 ...
, Amiens, Hindenburg Line
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, Canal du Nord, Pursuit to Mons
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Arts and entertainment
Films
* ''Pursuit'' (1935 film), a 1935 American action film
* ''Pursuit'' (1972 American film), a made-for-TV film directed by Michael Crichton
* ''Pursuit'' (1972 Hong Kong film), a Shaw Brot ...
, France and Flanders 1914-18
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*''The Second World War'': Gazala, Defence of Alamein Line, Ruweisat, Alam el Halfa, El Alamein, North Africa 1942, Coriano, San Clemente, Senio Pocket, Rimini Line, Conventello-Comacchio, Senio, Santerno Crossing, Argenta Gap, Italy 1944-45, Proasteion, Corinth Canal, Greece 1941
Victoria Cross
*Private Samuel Parkes, Crimean War
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Geopolitical causes of the war included the ...
(25 October 1854)
Regimental Colonels
The colonels of the regiment were as follows:[
*1685–1688: Brig-Gen. ]John Berkeley, 4th Viscount Fitzhardinge
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Berk ...
*1688: Col. Thomas Maxwell
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Thomas Maxwel ...
*1688–1693: Brig-Gen. John Berkeley, 4th Viscount Fitzhardinge
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Early life
Berk ...
(''reappointed'')
*1693–1710: Lt-Gen. Algernon Capell, 2nd Earl of Essex
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He was the son of Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex ...
*1710–1713: F.M. Sir Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham
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*1713–1735: Gen. William Evans
*1735–1768: F.M. Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet
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;4th Regiment of Dragoons - (1751)
*1768–1770: F.M. Hon. Henry Seymour Conway
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*1770–1788: Gen. Benjamin Carpenter
;4th (Queen's Own) Regiment of Dragoons - (1788)
*1788–1797: F.M. John Griffin, 4th Baron Howard de Walden
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, KB (Lord Braybrooke)
*1797–1802: Gen. Sir Robert Sloper
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Military career
Educated privately at Bishops Cannings in Wiltshire, Sloper was commissioned into the 10th Dragoons being promoted to major in 1 ...
, KB
*1802–1808: Gen. Sir Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester
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, KB
*1808–1836: Gen. Francis Hugonin
;4th (Queen's Own) Regiment of Light Dragoons - (1818)
*1836–1841: Gen. Lord Robert Edward Henry Somerset, GCB
*1842–1847: Lt-Gen. Sir James Charles Dalbiac
Lieutenant-General Sir James Charles Dalbiac, (1776–1847) was a British Army officer and Member of Parliament.
Life
He was born the eldest son of Charles Dalbiac of Hungerford Park, Berkshire.
In 1793 he joined the 4th Light Dragoons as ...
, KCH
*1847–1861: Gen. Sir George Scovell
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Military career
Scovell's parents were George Scovell of Cirencester and the da ...
, GCB
;4th (Queen's Own) Hussars - (1861)
*1861–1865: Gen. Sir James Hope Grant
General Sir James Hope Grant, GCB (22 July 1808 – 7 March 1875) was a British Army officer. He served in the First Opium War, First Anglo-Sikh War, Indian Rebellion of 1857, and Second Opium War.
Early life
Grant was the fifth and y ...
, GCB
*1865–1874: Gen. William Lennox Lascelles Fitzgerald de Ros, 23rd Baron de Ros
*1874–1880: Gen. Lord George Augustus Frederick Paget
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Lord George Au ...
, KCB
*1880–1881: Gen. William Hampton Parlby
*1881–1904: Gen. Alexander Low, CB
*1904–1919: Gen. Sir Alexander George Montgomery Moore
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He was born on 6 April 1833, the son of Alexander James Montgomery Moore of Garvey House, Aughnacloy, County Tyrone, s ...
, KCB
*1919–1941: Maj-Gen. Sir Reginald Walter Ralph Barnes, KCB, DSO
*1941–1958: Col. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, LLD, MP
See also
* British cavalry during the First World War
References
External links
4th Light Dragoons
Private website researching the regiment between 1824 and 1860.
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