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4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards

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Returning to the United Kingdom in late 1882, the regiment was back in Egypt (detachment to the Nile) from 1884 to 1885, then was posted to Ireland in 1886. It returned to England in 1891, and was posted to
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was reputed to have become the first British soldier to kill a German soldier, using his sword, and Drummer Edward Thomas is reputed to have fired the first British shots of the war.
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to engage the German army in the First World War. Two full troops of British cavalry surprised four patrolling German cavalrymen of the 2nd Kuirassiers at
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On 1 July 1751 a royal warrant provided that in future regiments would not be known by their colonels' names, but by their "number or rank".
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In 1921 the regiment was renamed the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards. In 1922 it was amalgamated with
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where it was the ranked 1st Horse. It returned to the British establishment in 1788, as the
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A Guide to the Regiments and Corps of the British Army on the Regular Establishment
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1693-1713 Lieutenant-General Francis Langston. app. 7 March 1693 — Langton’s Horse
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A defensive position built by the 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards in August 1914
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Lanarkshire Yeomanry (Queen's Own Royal Glasgow and Lower Ward of Lanarkshire)
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The regiment was deployed to the Peninsula in 1811 and fought under General
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1st County of London Yeomanry (Middlesex, Duke of Cambridge's Hussars)
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The 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards departing from the Crimea in 1856
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The regimental collection is held in the York Army Museum at the
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Suffolk Yeomanry (The Duke of York's Own Loyal Suffolk Hussars)
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Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry (Prince of Wales's Own Royal Regiment)
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King Edward's Horse (The King's Own Overseas Dominion Regiment)
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The regiment was then involved in activities in support of the
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1894–1896 Lieutenant-General William Godfrey Dunham Massy, CB
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in the British establishment (from the Irish establishment)
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in the Irish establishment (from the British establishment)
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199th (Duchess of Connaught's Own Irish Rangers) Battalion
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Musicians of the 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards in 1859
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Yorkshire Hussars (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own)
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Earl of Arran's Cuirassiers and 6th Regiment of Horse
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The regiment landed in France at the outbreak of the
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in 1788 and service for two centuries, including the
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Military units and formations disestablished in 1922
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Staffordshire Yeomanry (Queen's Own Royal Regiment)
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KG KT. app. 28 July 1685 —The Earl of Arran’s Horse
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Index


Kingdom of England
Kingdom of Great Britain
Kingdom of Ireland
United Kingdom

British Army
Lieutenant-General
James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton
Field Marshal
James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley
General
George Warde
Sir Henry Fane
Sir George Anson
Sir Edward Cooper Hodge
Horace Sewell
cavalry regiment
British Army
First World War
7th Dragoon Guards (Princess Royal's)
4th/7th Dragoon Guards

James, Earl of Arran

James, Earl of Arran
Monmouth Rebellion
Battle of the Boyne
Battle of Steenkerque
Williamite War in Ireland

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