The 2nd Dragoon Guards was a cavalry regiment of the British Army. It was first raised in 1685 by Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough as the Earl of Peterborough's Regiment of Horse by merging fo
The regimental cap badge for other ranks between 1920 and 1952
c. 1751 painting of a regimental private
The regiment routing mutineers near Hyderabad during the Indian Rebellion of 1857
c. 1910 illustration of a regimental private
The 1st Cavalry Division was a regular Division of the British Army during the First World War where it fought on the Western Front. During the Second World War it was a first line formation, formed f
2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays)
…Boer War. The regiment, which had been was stationed at Aldershot at the start of the war, landed in France as part of the 1st Cavalry Brigade in the 1st Cavalry Division, part of the Expeditionary Force, in August 1914 for service on the Western Front. The regiment took part in the Great Retreat in August 1914, the…
The 9th Lancers arriving at Mons, 21 August 1914.
Officers of the 5th Dragoon Guards in their camp at Rollancourt, May 1917.