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 11th Hussars
(Prince Albert's Own)
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 by A. Melville-Brown
United Kingdom 
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1715.07.22 Philip Honeywood's Regiment of Dragoons
ranked as 11th Dragoons; also known until 1751 by the names of other colonels
1751.07.01 11th Regiment of Dragoons
1779.02.25 light troop detached as nucleus to form 19th Light Dragoons
1783 11th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
1840.03.13 11th (Prince Albert's Own) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Hussars)
(named for the Prince Albert, Consort of Queen Victoria, who was appointed regiment's Colonel a month later)
1861.08.17 11th (or Prince Albert's Own) Hussars
1921.01.01 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own)
1969.10.25 amalgamated with 10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own), to form The Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own)
pip Deployment and Service
pip 11th Hussars (The King's Royal Hussars unofficial site)
pip 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own), by Paul Baker (History of the Hussars)
pip 11th Hussars in the Crimea, by Jim Boys and Roy Mills (Lives of the Light Brigade)
pip The Hussars, by Chris Baker (The British Army in the Great War)
pip British Cavalry Regiments, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath 1914-1918)
RHQ and Depot:
  Home HQ: Highfield House, Cirencester (1958-1969)
  Depot:
Recruiting Area: Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire (1958-1969)
   
 
Warburg, Beaumont, Willems, [Egypt]1, Salamanca, Peninsula, Waterloo, Bhurtpore, Alma, Balaklava, Inkerman, Sevastopol

The Great War:  Mons, Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914, Messines 1914, Armentières 1914, Ypres 1914 '15, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Somme 1916 '18, Flers-Courcelette, Arras 1917, Scarpe 1917, Cambrai 1917 '18, St. Quentin, Rosières, Amiens, Albert 1918, Hindenburg Line, St. Quentin Canal, Beaurevoir, Selle, France and Flanders 1914-18

The Second World War:  Villers Bocage, Bourguébus Ridge, Mont Pincon, Jurques, Dives Crossing, La Vie Crossing, Lisieux, Le Touques Crossing, Risle Crossing, Roer, Rhine, Ibbenburen, Aller, North-West Europe 1944-45, Egyptian Frontier 1940, Withdrawal to Matruh, Bir Enba, Sidi Barrani, Buq Buq, Bardia 1941, Capture of Tobruk, Beda Fomm, Halfaya 1941, Sidi Suleiman, Tobruk 1941, Gubi I II, Gabr Saleh, Sidi Rezegh 1941, Taieb el Essem, Relief of Tobruk, Saunnu, Msus, Defence of Alamein Line, Alam el Halfa, El Alamein, Advance on Tripoli, Enfidaville, Tunis, North Africa 1940-43, Capture of Naples, Volturno Crossing, Italy 1943

1.  the Sphinx badge superscribed "Egypt".

flag construction sign
   
Badges:
Uniform: blue; crimson overalls
headdress: busby with crimson busby-bag (authorised 1840 by Queen Victoria)
   
   
     
   
1911.05.15 HIRH Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Augustus Ernst, Crown Prince of the German Empire and Prussia, KG
1920.10.19 F.M. HM King George VI
1715.07.22 Gen. Sir Philip Honywood, KB [also 2nd Horse, 3rd Dgns, Honywood's Foot]
1732.05.29 Gen. Lord Mark Kerr
1752.02.08 Gen. William Henry (Kerr), 4th Marquess of Lothian, KT (Earl of Ancram)
1775.04.26 Gen. James Johnston (senior)
1785.02.04 Gen. Hon. Thomas Gage [also 17th Light Dgns, 22nd Foot, 60th Foot, 80th Foot; C-in-C North America]
1787.04.04 Gen. Sir Joseph (Yorke), 1st Baron Dover, KB
1789.03.14 F.M. Studholme Hodgson
1798.10.23 Gen. William John (Kerr), 5th Marquess of Lothian, KT
1813.01.27 Gen. Lord William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, GCB, GCH [also 20th Dgns; Gov. Madras 1803-07, Gov. Gen. India 1828-35]
1839.06.22 Gen. Lord Charles Henry Somerset Manners, KCB
1839.11.08 Lt-Gen. Philip Philpot
1840.04.30 F.M. HRH Francis Albert Augustus Charles Emmanuel, Duke of Saxony, Prince of Saxe-Coburg (The Prince Consort), KG, KT, KP, GCB, GCMG, KSI
1842.04.25 Gen. Sir Arthur Benjamin Clifton, GCB, KCH
1842.08.30 Gen. Charles Murray (Cathcart), 2nd Earl Cathcart (Lord Greenock), GCB
1847.11.19 Gen. Sir Henry Wyndham, KCB
1860.08.03 Lt-Gen. James Thomas (Brudenell), 7th Earl of Cardigan, KCB
1868.03.29 Gen. George William Key
1871.11.19

Gen. Charles Hagart, CB
1873.05.23 Gen. Sir Archibald Little, GCB
1875.03.08 Gen. William Neville Custance, CB
1886.02.08 Gen. William Charles Forrest, CB
1902.04.02 Lt-Gen. Sir Arthur Lyttleton Lyttleton-Annesley, KCB, KCVO
1926.02.17 Maj-Gen. Thomas Tait Pitman, CB, CMG
1939.10.09 Brig-Gen. Sir Archibald Fraser Home, KCVO, CB, CMG, DSO
1945.07.12 Maj-Gen. John Frederick Boyce Combe, CB, DSO
1957.07.12 Col. Adam Trevor Smail, DSO
1965.06.01 Col. Sir John Charles Arthur Digby Lawson, Bt, DSO, MC [to 1969; continued 1971 in Royal Hussars]
vc Victoria Crosses, by Mike Chapman (VC Reference).
vc VCs in the King's Royal Hussars Regimental Museum, by Iain Stewart.
 
Motto: Treu und Fest
Nicknames: The Cherrypickers
Anniversaries: El Alamein (23 Oct.)
Freedoms:
Marches: quick: themes from 1st Act of Moses in Egypt (Gioacchino Rossini, arr. Operti)
slow: Coburg (Prince Albert)
other (1928): The Old Grey Mare (adopted upon mechanisation)
Musicians:
Mascot: construction sign
Miscellaneous Tradition Links:
Canada flag

1st Hussars

1929-1969
Southern Rhodesia flag Southern Rhodesia Armoured Car Regiment
Associated Yeomanry:  
UK flag The Royal Gloucestershire Hussars 1947-1969
 
swords [no external sites have been found]
   
   
monument King's Royal Hussars Museum, Winchester (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)
monument King's Royal Hussars Museum, Winchester (Simonides listing)
monument King's Royal Hussars Museum, Winchester (Hantsweb listing)
Regimental Journal:
book The XI Hussars journal.
Full Histories:
book Cannon, Richard. Historical record of the Eleventh, or the Prince Albert's Own Regiment of Hussars : containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1715 and of its subsequent services to 1842. London : J.W. Parker, 1843. (Historical records of the British Army)
book Brett-Smith, Richard. The 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own). London : Leo Cooper, 1969. (Famous regiments) ISBN: 0850520150
book Williams, Godfrey Trevelyan. The historical records of the Eleventh Hussars, Prince Albert's Own. London : Newnes, 1908.
book Lumley, Lawrence Roger. History of the Eleventh Hussars (Prince Albert's Own), 1908-1934. London : The Royal United Service Institution, 1936.
book Clarke, Dudley. The Eleventh at war, being the story of the XIth Hussars (Prince Albert's Own) through the years 1934-1945. London : M. Joseph, 1952.
book Osborne, Keith. Berlin or bust. Chester : K. Osborne, 2000.
book Keown-Boyd, Henry. Remember with advantages : a history of the Tenth, Eleventh and Royal Hussars, 1945-1992. London : Leo Cooper, 1994. ISBN: 0850523826
 
Short Histories:
book Regimental history of the 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own). Aldershot : Gale & Polden, 1925.
book A short history of the XI Hussars (Prince Albert's Own). Aldershot : s.n., 1930.
book 11th Hussars Prince Albert's Own 'The Cherrypickers'. London : Page, [ca. 1963]
   
Special Topics:
book Smith, Henry Stooks. An alphabetical list of the officers of the Eleventh, or Prince Albert's Own, Regiment of Hussars, from 1800 to 1850. London : Simkin, Marshall & Co., 1850.
book Nesbitt, A.A. A history of the uniform of the Eleventh Hussars. In: XI Hussars journal, 1960, p. 177-187.
book Cox, Bernard William. The dress distinctions of the 11th Hussars (P.A.O.). [s.l.] : Langridge's Military Publications, 1960.