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Royal Horse Guards (The Blues) |
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1650 -
1969
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Earliest recognised formation: |
1650, as the "Regiment of Cuirassiers", which were raised at Newcastle and
County Durham as a Parliamentary Regiment in preparation for the invasion of
Scotland. After the necessary purging of its officers and their replacement
with royalists, the regiment transferred to royal service at the
Restoration. (1660) |
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Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense |
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Regimental Journal: |
The Blues. |
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| WWI: |
Battle Honours; 23 |
Victoria Crosses; 0 |
Died; 99 |
| WWII: (As the Household Cavalry Regiment.) |
Battle Honours; 21 |
Victoria Crosses; 0 |
Died; ??? |
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| Amalgamated: |
1969, with the
(1st Royal) Dragoons to form The Blues and Royals (Royal
Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons) |
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Battle of Waterloo 1815 |
Waterloo Medal 1815 |
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254 |
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Casualties 16th, 17th & 18th June
1815 (extracted London Gazette 8/7/1815 & "Medals of the British
Army: And how they were won" T. Carter 1861*) |
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Officers: 1 Major killed, 2 Lieutenant
Colonels & 2 Lieutenants wounded, 1 Captain missing. |
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*Sergeants, Trumpeters, Drummers, Farriers and
Rank and File: |
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Killed |
Wounded |
Missing |
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Suffered
amputation |
Discharged |
Transferred to Veteran or Garrison Battalions |
Rejoined the
Regiment |
Remaining in hospitals in April 1816 |
Total |
Rejoined the
Regiment | Not
since heard of, supposed dead. |
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51 |
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62 |
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Horses: 42 killed, 15 wounded, 34
missing. |
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*Carter's figures are in turn extracted from the
return prepared by the Adjutant-Generals
office, 13th April 1816. |
Battle Honour; Waterloo. |
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Egypt Campaign 1882 (as
part of the Household Cavalry Regiment with the 1st & 2nd Life Guards) |
Egypt and Sudan Medal 1882-89 | | |
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Clasp: |
...none... |
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51* |
106 |
157** |
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2 dead on the roll. |
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* final number may be reduced by the second campaign below. |
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**clasps and total corrected for forfeited |
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Recipients also
entitled to a Khedive's Star dated 1882 |
Battle Honours: Tel-el-Kebir, Egypt 1882 |
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The Nile Expedition 1884-5 51 served in the
Heavy Camel Regiment. |
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Egypt and Sudan Medal 1882-89 |
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Clasp: |
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46 |
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Recipients who had
not served in the earlier 1882 campaign would also be entitled
to a Khedive's Star
dated 1884-6 |
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South African War 1899 - 1902 or "Boer War" (Main Body, Dec 1899
-November 1900 as part of the Household
Cavalry Regiment with the 1st & 2nd Life Guards ) |
Queen's South Africa Medal 1899-1902. |
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134 |
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4 |
136 |
147 |
81 |
137 |
79 |
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69 |
104 |
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Total
Medals |
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292 |
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Officers |
NCOs and Men |
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KIA & DOW |
Wounded |
Death from disease |
KIA & DOW |
Death from disease |
Wounded |
Missing / POW |
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Battle Honours: Relief of Kimberley;
Paardeburg; South Africa 1899-1900. |
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The Great War 1914 - 1918 Served France and Flanders |
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One squadron of the Regiment arrived France
16th August 1914 as a component of the Household Cavalry
Composite Regiment, with squadrons from the 1st and 2nd Life Guards. This configuration was broken up 11th November
1914 and the advance squadron reunited with the remainder of the
regiment which had arrived in theatre 7th November 1914. On
the 10th March 1918 the regiment was converted to No.3 (Royal Horse
Guards)
Battalion, Guards Machine Gun Regiment. The regiment returned to its
normal cavalry designation in 1919. |
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Men landed France and Flanders prior to 1/1/1916
entitled to a 1914 or 1914-15 Star
as appropriate. Also
the
British War Medal & Victory Medal |
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Died records 77 other ranks and 22 officer deaths with the RHG
and No.3, (RHG) Btn. GMGR. |
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Battle Honours: Le Cateau; Marne 1914; Messines 1914; Ypres
1914, 1915, 1917; Gheluvelt; Frezenberg; Loos; Arras 1917; Sambre;
France and Flanders 1914-18. Mons; Retreat from Mons; Aisne 1914;
Armentières 1914; Langemarck 1914; Nonne Bosschen; St Julien; Scarpe
1917; Broodseinde; Poelcapelle; Passchendaele; Hindenburg Line;
Cambrai 1918. |
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WW2 |
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Amalgamated with the Life Guards for WW2 to form the
Household Cavalry Regiment (see
The Life Guards page) |
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The Cyprus Emergency 1955 - 1960 (Feb 1956- June 1959) |
General Service Medal
1918-62 | |
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COs: Lt Col Marquis Arthur Valerian Douro to
March '58 then Lt. Col Hon Julian Berry. |
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Selected Links |
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The Regimental Museum. (Located in )
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Selected Bibliography; |
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Title |
Publisher |
| By Edmund Packe, late
Captain, Royal Horse Guards. |
An Historical Record of
the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards or Oxford Blues, its
Services, and the Transactions in which it has been engaged,
from its first Establishment to the Present Time. 150 pp. |
London: William
Clowes, 1834. |
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Additional Bibliography for this
Page. |
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Title |
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| Officers of the
Regiment. |
Unpublished rolls in
the care of the National Archives; WO 100/ etc. |
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| Stiles, Richard G.M.L. |
Mayhem in the Med
(Cyprus Emergency) |
Savannah Pub. London. 2005 |
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Additional bibliography
same as Northumberland Fusiliers
page |
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