1st (King’s) Dragoon Guards
Regimental Depot: Dunbar
August 1914 : in Lucknow in India, part of the Lucknow Cavalry Brigade.
Moved with Brigade to France as part of 1st Indian Cavalry Division, landed Marseilles 7 November 1914.
26 November 1916 : 1st Indian Cavalry Division renamed as 4th Cavalry Division.
7 October 1917 : left Brigade and returned to India, where it then remained.
Joined 1st (Peshawar) Division in August 1918, from 14th Cavalry Brigade.
2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen’s Bays)
Regimental Depot: Newport (Monmouthshire)
August 1914 : at Aldershot, part of 1st Cavalry Brigade in Cavalry Division. Moved to France.
16 September 1914 : Cavalry Division renamed as 1st Cavalry Division.
Battle of Flers-Courcelette. 15-22 September. Troops of the 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen’s Bays) on the march approaching Hardecourt Wood, 18 September 1916. Imperial War Museum image Q4240.
3rd (Prince of Wales’s) Dragoon Guards
Regimental Depot: Newport (Monmouthshire)
August 1914 : at Cairo in Egypt. Recalled to England, arrived at Liverpool on 18 October 1914.
31 October 1914 : landed in France and on 4 November under command of 6th Cavalry Brigade in 3rd Cavalry Division.
4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards
Regimental Depot: Newport (Monmouthshire)
August 1914 : at Tidworth, part of 2nd Cavalry Brigade in Cavalry Division. Moved to France 16 August.
16 September 1914 : Cavalry Division renamed as 1st Cavalry Division.
5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s) Dragoon Guards
Regimental Depot: Dunbar
August 1914 : at Aldershot, part of 1st Cavalry Brigade in Cavalry Division. Moved to France 16 August.
16 September 1914 : Cavalry Division renamed as 1st Cavalry Division.
6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)
Regimental Depot: Newport (Monmouthshire)
August 1914 : at Canterbury, part of 4th Cavalry Brigade in Cavalry Division. Moved to France in August.
16 September 1914 : Cavalry Division renamed as 1st Cavalry Division.
14 October 1914 : transferred with Brigade to 2nd Cavalry Division.
7th (Princess Royal’s) Dragoon Guards
Regimental Depot: Newport (Monmouthshire)
August 1914 : in Secunderabad in India, part of the Secunderabad Cavalry Brigade.
Moved with Brigade to France as part of 1st Indian Cavalry Division, landed Marseilles at 13 October 1914.
23 December 1914 : transferred with Brigade to 2nd Indian Cavalry Division.
26 November 1916 : 2nd Indian Cavalry Division renamed as 5th Cavalry Division.
February 1918 : Division broken up; regiment transferred on 10 March 1918 to 7th Cavalry Brigade in 3rd Cavalry Division.
Books
This is a list of histories of the regiments during the Great War. Some have been reprinted in recent years.
History of the Queen’s Bays, 2nd Dragoon Guards, 1685-1929 by Frederic Whyte and A. Hilliard Atteridge (London: J. Cape. 1930)
The History of the 3rd Dragoon Guards (Printed for Private Circulation, 1937)
I Serve: Regimental History of the 3rd Carabiniers (Prince of Wales’s Dragoon Guards) by Lieutenant-Colonel L.B. Oatts (Chester, 1966)
Record of the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards in the Great War, 1914-1918 by Rev. Harold Gibb, Lieutenant 4th R.I. Dragoon Guards, 1914-1915 (1925)
A History of the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards and their Predecessors, 1685-1980 by J.M. Brereton (Catterick: The Regiment, 1982)
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