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
Lieutenant-General George Carpenter, 1st Baron Carpenter was a British army officer and Whig politician. He served as Commander-in-Chief, Scotland from 1716 to 1724 and as a member of parliament from
Engraving of Carpenter by John Faber the Younger, c. 1719
The 1691 battle of Aughrim; Carpenter's unit took part in the decisive charge against the Jacobite left.
Engraving of Charles Wills