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4th/7th Royal
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5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards |
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The Royal Dragoon
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4th Royal Irish
Dragoon Guards
1685 - 1922 |
7th (The Princess Royal's)
Dragoon Guards
1688 - 1922 |
5th Dragoon Guards
(Princess Charlotte of Wales's)
1685 - 1922 |
The Inniskillings
(6th Dragoons)
(1689-1922) |
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4th/7th Royal
Dragoon Guards*
1922 - 1992 |
(5th/6th Dragoons 1922
-1927)
5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards
1927 - 1992** |
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The Royal Dragoon
Guards
1992 - date |
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| *Granted the 'Royal'
prefix in 1936 |
| **Titled: "5th/6th
Dragoons" 1922-27 "5th Inniskilling Dragoon
Guards" 1927 -35 (granted Royal prefix in 1935 and
hence becoming "5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon
Guards" title in use to amalgamation.) |
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4th/7th Royal
Dragoon Guards
1922 - 1992 |
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WW2 1939 - 1945 |
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Theatre: |
France and
Belgium 1940.
(Dunkirk ) |
North West Europe |
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Higher formation: |
2nd Infantry Division |
8th Armoured Brigade. (under command of 50th Infantry Division for
the D-Day* assault phase) |
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WW2 Stars: |
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France and Germany |
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*Landed Gold Beach D-Day 6/6/44 with duplex drive
Tanks (together with the Notts Yeomanry) |
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(most also entitled to the
39-45 star
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1939-45 War Medal and
Defence Medal) |
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Battle Honours: Dyle; Dunkirk 1940;
Normandy Landing; Odon; Mont Pinçon; Nederrijn; Geilenkirchen;
Rhineland; Cleve; Rhine.
Seine 1944; Roer; Bremen; North-West Europe 1940, 1944-5. |
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5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards
1922 - 1992 |
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WW2 1939 - 1945 |
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Theatre: |
France and
Belgium 1940.
(Dunkirk ) |
North West Europe |
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Higher formation: |
(Divisional troops) 4th Infantry Division
3/9/39 -30/3/40
2nd Armoured Reconnaissance Brigade
30/3/40 - 22/6/40 |
22nd Armoured Brigade
29/7/44 - 31/8/45 |
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WW2 Stars: |
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France and Germany |
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3rd Motor Machine Gun Brigade 23/6/40 - 30/11/40
(UK) |
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28th Armoured Brigade 1/12/40 - 13/7/44 (UK) |
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39-45 star
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1939-45 War Medal and
Defence Medal) |
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Battle Honours: Withdrawal to Escaut; St
Omer–La Bassée; Dunkirk 1940; Mont Pinçon; Lower Maas; St Pierre La
Vieille; Lisieux; Risle Crossing; Roer; Ibbenburen; North-West
Europe 1940, 1944-5. |
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Korean War 1950 - 1953 (Dec 1951-Dec 1952) |
Queen's Korea Medal |
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Casualties / Honours and Awards. (extracted
from "The 38th Parallel" Peter Gaston: Pub A.D. Hamilton Glasgow
1976 and the separate POW roll compiled by the same individual
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Killed
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Wounded |
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MBE |
BEM |
MC |
MM |
US Bronze Star |
US Bronze Star with 'V' Device |
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Battle Honours: The Hook; Korea 1951-52 |
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The Royal Dragoon
Guards
1992 - date |
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Iraq War, or Second Gulf War 2003- 4 Armoured Brigade Operation
Telic 5 (2005) |
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Iraq Medal 2003- |
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clasp: |
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