Nevill Smyth
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Major-General Sir Nevill Maskelyne Smyth, was a senior officer in the British Army and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded t
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Brigadier General Smyth and his brigade major, Major Walter Cass, looking down Allah Gully towards Gaba Tepe, Gallipoli, 1915.
Formal group photograph taken at a Victoria Cross Reunion Dinner, sometime in the 1920s. Seated, second on the left, is Sir Nevill Smyth.
3rd Dragoon Guards
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The 3rd Dragoon Guards was a cavalry regiment of the British Army, first raised in 1685 as the Earl of Plymouth's Regiment of Horse. It was renamed as the 3rd Regiment of Dragoon Guards in 1751 and th
Nevill Smyth
…French Legion of Honour in the grade of Officer. In all, he was Mentioned in Despatches eleven times during his career. He was appointed colonel of the 3rd Dragoon Guards on 1 October 1920. He relinquished command of his division on 30 July 1923. Smyth retired from the British Army on 5 July 1924, and relinquished the…
Badge of the 3rd Dragoon Guards
Illustration of regimental troops in 1687
c. 1751 painting of a regimental private
1838 illustration of the regimental uniform