1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards - Wikipedia
1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards (QDG) is a regiment in the Royal Armoured Corps of the British Army. Nicknamed The Welsh Cavalry, the regiment recruits from Wales and the bordering English counties of Cheshire, Herefordshire, and Shropshire, and is the senior cavalry regiment, and therefore senior regiment of the line of the British Army.
1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards - The British Army
With a long and distinguished history stretching back more than 300 years, 1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards (QDG) is the Cavalry Regiment of Wales and the Border Counties. Specialising in mounted reconnaissance its soldiers fight for information about the enemy and environment.
1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards - National Army Museum
1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards. This is the senior regiment of the line in the British Army. It was formed in 1959 as an armoured reconnaissance regiment by merging two existing dragoon guards units. Since then, it has served in several conflicts, …
History – 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards - qdg.org.uk
Whilst 1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards (QDG) is a thoroughly modern 21st Century reconnaissance regiment formed sixty years ago, it also one of the oldest regiments in the British Army. Its roots spread back well over three hundred years to 1685, before the formal formation of the British Army in 1707.
2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) - Wikipedia
The 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) was a cavalry regiment of the British Army. It was first raised in 1685 by the Earl of Peterborough as the Earl of Peterborough's Regiment of Horse by merging four existing troops of horse.
1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards – Firing Line Museum of The Queen's …
1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards began its formal existence on January 1st 1959, this being the day when the 1st King’s Dragoon Guards was amalgamated with the 2nd Dragoon Guards, better known as the Queen’s Bays.
1685 to 1899 – Firing Line Museum of The Queen's Dragoon Guards …
On accession of King James II to the throne on the 6th February, 1685, the regular army in England consisted of three troops of Life Guards, a regiment of Dragoons, two regiments of Foot Guards and five regiments of Infantry of the Line, which, with the garrison in regular pay amounted to 8,000 men. Few months only had lapsed before the army ...
Chronology – 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards
1959 Amalgamation of KDG and Bays to form 1St The Queen’s Dragoon Guards. 1959 Wolfenbuttel as recce. N.Ireland tour at Omagh and B & C Sqns Borneo. 1966-7 Aden as recce. Battle of Sheik Othman and the clearance of Crater. …
1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards – Regimental Comrades …
1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards Regimental Comrades Association Fostering esprit de corps, comradeship and the welfare of the Regiment and preserving its traditions. Registered Charity No. 274689
The Queen's Dragoon Guards Museum - Royal Armoured Corps
This unique museum of the Welsh soldier is highly innovative and interactive in providing access to the proud and distinguished service of 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards and The Royal Welsh, which stretches over 300 years and continues today.