7th Dragoon Guards
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The 7th Dragoon Guards was a cavalry regiment in the British Army, first raised in 1688 as Lord Cavendish's Regiment of Horse. It was renamed as the 8th Horse in 1694 and the 7th Dragoon Guards for Pr
Regimental Badge
Earl Ligonier, Colonel 1720–1749
1832 portrait of a regimental private
Major Gore, the 7th Dragoon Guards, c. 1850
The 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards was a cavalry regiment in the British Army, first raised in 1685 as the Earl of Arran's Regiment of Cuirassiers. It was renamed as the 4th Dragoon Guards in 1788 and
7th Dragoon Guards
…Dragoon Guards for Princess Charlotte in 1788. It saw service for two centuries, including the First World War, before being amalgamated with the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards, to form the 4th/7th Dragoon Guards in 1922. During the 1688 Glorious Revolution, William Cavendish, later Duke of Devonshire, raised a troop of horse…
Badge of the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards
c. 1742 engraving of a regimental trooper
Regimental standard in 1839
Painting of the regiment departing for the Crimea in 1856