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created 1 August 2000. Corrected and updated
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1858 |
1st Bengal
European Light Cavalry |
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1858.07.03 |
transferred
from HEIC to Crown control |
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1859.11.01 |
1st Bengal
European Cavalry |
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1862.09.30 |
19th Hussars
transferred to British Army |
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1874 |
deemed
to be successor to 19th Light Dragoons |
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1902.07 |
19th (Alexandra,
Princess of Wales's Own) Hussars
(named for the future Queen
Alexandra) |
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1908.08 |
19th (Queen
Alexandra's Own Royal) Hussars
(redesignated after the Princess of Wales
became Queen) |
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1921.01.01 |
19th Royal
Hussars (Queen Alexandra's Own) |
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1921.07 |
disbanded |
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1922.04.11 |
one
squadron reconstituted and amalgamated with 15th
The King's Hussars, to form
15th/19th Hussars |
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Mysore1,
Seringapatam2,
[Assaye]3,
Niagara4,
Tel-el-Kebir, Egypt 1882
'84, Abu Klea, Nile 1884-85,
Defence of Ladysmith,
South Africa 1899-1902
The Great War5:
Le
Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914, Armentières 1914,
Ypres 1915, 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. granted 1889 for service of predecessor
19th Light Dragoons
2. inherited 1912 from 19th
Light Dragoons
3. the Elephant badge superscribed "Assaye",
inherited 1874 from 19th Light Dragoons
4. inherited 1874 from 19th
Light Dragoons
5. awarded Sep. 1922 (after amalgamation) and amended Feb. 1925.
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Badges: |
The Elephant superscribed
'Assaye' |
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1858 |
Maj-Gen. Thomas Mathew Taylor |
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1862.09.30 |
Gen. William Pattle |
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1865.02.10 |
Gen. John Hall |
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1872.05.06 |
Gen. John Yorke, CB |
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1889.03.24 |
Lt-Gen. Coote Synge Hutchinson |
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1902.02.14 |
F.M.
Sir John Denton Pinkstone (French), 1st Earl of Ypres, KP, GCB, OM,
GCVO, KCMG [continued 1922 in 15th/19th
Hussars; also Col. Irish Guards;
Col-in-Chief R Irish Regt; Hon
Col. Cambridgeshire
Regt; CIGS;
C-in-C BEF 1914-15; C-in-C Home Forces 1915-18; Gov.-Gen. Ireland
1918-21] |
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Marches: |
quick: Haste
to the Wedding
slow: Denmark (aka: King Christian, the Danish National
Anthem) |
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Miscellaneous
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Regimental
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Full Histories:
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Biddulph, John. The Nineteenth and
their times, being an account of the four cavalry regiments in the
British Army that have borne the number Nineteen, and of the campaigns
in which they served. London : John Murray, 1899. |
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by A. Melville-Brown 
