15th The King's Hussars [UK]

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Page created 1 August 2000. Corrected and updated 15.07.2006

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	15th The King's Hussars
crest and tie by A. Melville-Brown	United Kingdom

Titles & Lineage

History

Battle Honours

Colours, Standards & Guidons

Uniforms & Badges

Colonels-in-Chief

Colonels


	1715.07.22	William Newton's Regiment of Dragoons ranked as 15th Dragoons
	1718.10	disbanded

	1745	Duke of Kingston's Regiment of Horse ranked as 10th Horse
	1748.09	15th Light Horse, or Duke of Cumberland's Dragoons (named for William Augustus, 1st Duke of Cumberland)
	1748	disbanded

	1759.03.10	15th (or Light) Regiment of Dragoons also known as Eliott's Light Horse, claiming no lineal descent from previous regiments
	1760	15th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
	1766.05.26	1st (or The King's Royal) Regiment of Light Dragoons (named for King George III)
	1769	15th (The King's) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
	1807	15th (The King's) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Hussars)
	1861.08.17	15th (The King's) Hussars
	1921.01.01	15th The King's Hussars
	1922.04.11	amalgamated with 19th Royal Hussars (Queen Alexandra's Own), to form 15th/19th Hussars


		Deployment and Service
		15th The King's Hussars, by Paul Baker (History of the Hussars)
		Brief History, 1759-1816, by Andrew Robertson.
		The Hussars, by Chris Baker (The British Army in the Great War)
		British Cavalry Regiments, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath 1914-1918)

	*RHQ and Depot:*
		Home HQ: [none]
		Depot:
		Recruiting Area: nationwide


	Emsdorf, Villers-en-Cauchies, Willems, Egmont-op-Zee, Sahagun, Vittoria, Peninsula, Waterloo, Afghanistan 1878-80 The Great War¹: Mons, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914, Ypres 1914 '15, Langemarck 1914, Gheluvelt, Nonne Bosschen, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Somme 1916 '18, Flers-Courcelette, Cambrai 1917 '18, St. Quentin, Rosières, Amiens, Albert 1918, Bapaume 1918, Hindenburg Line, St. Quentin Canal, Beaurevoir, Pursuit to Mons, France and Flanders 1914-18 1. awarded Sep. 1922 (after amalgamation) and amended Feb. 1925.

Badges:

Uniform:


	1715.07	Col. William Newton

	1745	Gen. Evelyn (Pierrepont), 2nd Duke of Kingston
	1748.09	Gen. Lord Robert Manners

	1759.03.10	Gen. George Augustus (Eliott), 1st Baron Heathfield
	1790.07.16	Gen. Sir Guy (Carleton), 1st Baron Dorchester, KB [also 4th Dgns, 24th Lt Dgns, 47th Foot, 84th Hldrs, CinC North America]
	1801.03.28	F.M. HRH Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, KG, KP, GCB, GCH (later King of Hanover)
	1827.01.22	Lt-Gen. Sir Colquhoun Grant, KCB, GCH
	1835.12.29	Gen. Sir Robert Thomas Wilson, KC
	1849.05.18	Gen. Sir ThomasWilliam Brotherton, GCB
	1859.07.17	Gen. Everard William Bouverie
	1871.11.19	Gen. George William Key
	1883.08.21	Gen. Michael William Smith, CB
	1891.04.19	Lt-Gen. Sir Frederick Wellington John FitzWygram, Bt. [also Hon. Col. 2nd VB, Hampshire Regt]
	1904.12.11	Gen. Sir George Luck, GCB
	1916.12.10	Gen. Sir William Eliot Peyton, KCB, KCVO, DSO [continued 1922 in 15th/19th Hussars]


		Victoria Crosses, by Mike Chapman (VC Reference).


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	Freedoms:
	Marches:	quick: The Bold King's Hussar slow: Eliott's Light Horse (anon. ca. 1780) other: The Sahagun Song (allegedly composed by trooper of regt 1809; played at regimental dinners and on Sahagun Day)
	Musicians:
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	*Miscellaneous Tradition Links:*


		XVLD, The 15th or King's Light Dragoons [Napoleonic, England]


		The Light Dragoons (15th/19th King's Royal Hussars) Museum Collection, A Soldier's Life, Discovery Museum, Newcastle Upon Tyne (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)
		A Soldier's Life, Discovery Museum, Newcastle Upon Tyne (Simonides listing)


	Regimental Journal:


	Full Histories:
		Cannon, Richard. Historical record of the Fifteenth, or the King's Regiment of Light Dragoons, Hussars containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1759, and of its subsequent services to 1841. London : J.W. Parker, 1841. (Historical records of the British Army)
		*Historical record of the Fifteenth, or, the King's, Regiment of Light Dragoons, Hussars*. Meerut : XV "The King's" Hussars Press, 1877 [i.e. 1879]
		Wylly, H. C. (Harold Carmichael). XVth (The King's) hussars, 1759 to 1913. London : Caxton Pub. Co., 1914.
		Carnock, Frederick Archibald Nicolson, Baron. The history of the 15th The King's Hussars, 1914-1922. Gloucester, Eng. : Crypt House Press, 1932.

	Special Topics:
		Kemp, Alan. *15th The King's Hussars: dress and appointments, 1759-1914*. [New Maiden] : Almark Publishing, 1972. ISBN: 0855240946; 0855240954 (pbk.)