7th Dragoon Guards

7th Dragoon Guards (Princess Royal's)
Regimental Badge
Active1688–1922
Country England (1688–1707)

 Great Britain (1707–1746, 1788–1800)
 Ireland (1746–1788)

 United Kingdom (1801–1922)
BranchBritish Army
TypeCavalry
RoleHeavy Cavalry
Size550
Nickname(s)The Black Horse
The Virgin Mary's Bodyguard[1]
March(slow) 7th (Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards
Commanders
Current
commander		Defunct

The 7th (The Princess Royal's) 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 (The Princess Royal's) 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.

History

William Cavendish, later Duke of Devonshire, first Colonel of the regiment

During the 1688 Glorious Revolution, William Cavendish, later Duke of Devonshire, raised a troop of horse to provide an escort for Princess Anne, younger daughter of James II. After James fled into exile, a number of independent troops were brought together to form Lord Cavendish's Regiment of Horse.[2]

Earl Ligonier, Colonel 1720–1749

During the Williamite War in Ireland, it fought at the Battle of the Boyne in July 1690, before moving to Flanders in 1692 to serve in the Nine Years' War. It took part in the action at Dottignies in July 1693 and the siege of Namur in July 1695, before the war ended with the 1697 Treaty of Ryswick.[3] Saved from disbandment by being transferred onto the Irish establishment, it served in Europe throughout the War of the Spanish Succession, fighting at Blenheim, Elixheim, Ramillies and Malplaquet.[4]

After the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht it returned to Ireland, where in 1720, French Huguenot exile and future Field Marshal John Ligonier took over as colonel, a position he held for 29 years. Under his command, the unit gained a reputation as one of the best trained and efficient units in the British army; between 1742 and 1747, 37 members of the regiment received battlefield commissions for distinguished service, a record 'without parallel for the period.'[5] As late as 1913, recruits were still taught about Ligonier, while his personal crest and motto were borne by every member of the regiment.[6]

Sent back to Flanders in 1742 for the War of the Austrian Succession, the regiment fought in the battles of Dettingen and Fontenoy. At Lauffeld in July 1747, it took part in a famous charge led by Ligonier that allowed their infantry to escape what was an Allied defeat.[7] After the 1748 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, it returned to garrison duty in Ireland. In the army reforms of 1747, it was ranked as the 4th Regiment of Horse, or the "Black Horse". [8] It remained in Ireland until July 1760, when it fought at Warburg, during the Seven Years' War. [9]

Major Gore, the 7th Dragoon Guards, c. 1850

In 1788, it was retitled 7th (The Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards, after Princess Charlotte.[10] It remained in Ireland and England throughout the wars with France and helped suppress the 1798 Irish Rebellion.[11] During the Victorian era, it was sent to South Africa in 1843, where it remained until after the 1846–1847 Xhosa War. Before leaving, the regiment was rearmed with a version of the Brunswick rifle:[12][13] despite the shortcomings of this weapon,[14][15] it dismounted to fight as infantry so frequently that on its return to England the Inspector-General of Cavalry recommended that additional infantry officers be drafted into the regiment.[16] In 1857, it was posted to India, returning home in 1867 where it remained until the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War.[17]

Following the outbreak of the Second Boer War in late 1899, the regiment was again sent abroad for service in South Africa. A total of 24 officers and 500 men left Southampton aboard Armenian on 8 February 1900.[18] The regiment fought at the Battle of Diamond Hill in June 1900.[19]

The regiment, which had been serving in Secunderabad at the start of the First World War, landed in Marseille as part of the 9th (Secunderabad) Cavalry Brigade in the 1st Indian Cavalry Division in October 1914 for service on the Western Front.[20] A squadron from the regiment rode ten miles to capture the town of Lessines on 11 November 1918 shortly before the armistice.[21] It was re-titled as the 7th Dragoon Guards (Princess Royal's) in 1921, and was amalgamated with the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards, to form the 4th/7th Dragoon Guards in 1922.[22]

Regimental museum

The regimental collection is held in the York Army Museum at the Tower Street drill hall in York.[23]

Battle honours

The regiment's battle honours were as follows:

  • Early Wars: Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde, Malplaquet, Dettingen, Warburg, South Africa 1846–7, Tel-el-Kebir, Egypt 1882, South Africa 1900–02
  • The Great War: La Bassée 1914, Givenchy 1914, Somme 1916 '18, Bazentin, Flers-Courcelette, Cambrai 1917 '18, St. Quentin, Avre, Lys, Hazebrouck, Amiens, Hindenburg Line, St. Quentin Canal, Beaurevoir, Pursuit to Mons, France and Flanders 1914–18

Memorials

In Norwich Cathedral there are memorial windows to those members of the 7th Dragoon Guards who died in the Second Boer War and World War I. Under the Boer War window there is a pair of brass plates listing 64 names, as well as the laid-up standards of the regiment.[24] Under the WWI window the brass plates list 120 names. An added plate underneath is inscribed 'In Memory of the Officers, Warrant Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers and Troopers of the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards who fell in the Second World War'.[25][26]

Colonels

The colonels of the regiment were as follows:[27]

9th Regiment of Horse

from 1693 8th Regiment of Horse

in 1746 transferred to the Irish establishment and ranked

4th (Irish) Regiment of Horse
Black Horse

On 1 July 1751 a royal warrant provided that in future regiments would not be known by their colonels' names, but by their "number or rank".

in 1788 transferred to the British establishment and ranked

7th (The Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards

from 1921 7th Dragoon Guards (Princess Royal's)

from 1922 4th/7th Dragoon Guards after amalgamation with 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards

See also

References

  1. ^ Burnham, Robert; McGuigan, Ron (2010). The British Army against Napoleon. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Frontline Books. p. 122. ISBN 978-1-84832-562-3.
  2. ^ "7th (The Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards". National Army Museum. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
  3. ^ Cannon 1839, pp. 15–17.
  4. ^ Cannon 1839, pp. 20–27.
  5. ^ Wood 2004, p. ODNB Online.
  6. ^ Buchanan 1999, p. 82.
  7. ^ "Battle of Lauffeldt". BritishBattles.com. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
  8. ^ Cannon 1839, p. 44.
  9. ^ Cannon 1839, p. 48.
  10. ^ Cannon 1839, p. 55.
  11. ^ Cannon 1839, pp. 57–58.
  12. ^ Tylden, G. (1947). "779. Swartkoppies and the 7th and 8th Kaffir Wars, 1845–1852". Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research. 25 (102): 85–86. ISSN 0037-9700.
  13. ^ Tylden, G. (1945). "694. THE 7th DRAGOON GUARDS AT SWARTKOPJES, 30th April, 1845". Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research. 23 (94): 79. ISSN 0037-9700.
  14. ^ Sinclair-Thomson, Brent (2023-07-03). "Guns of the Khoe-San: the firearms used by indigenes for the first two hundred years of colonisation at the Cape". Arms & Armour. 20 (2): 168–169. doi:10.1080/17416124.2023.2259742. ISSN 1741-6124.
  15. ^ Marquess of Anglesey (1993). A History of the British Cavalry 1816–1919. Vol. 3 (1872-1898). Pen & Sword. pp. 173–174. ISBN 9781473815001.
  16. ^ Strachan, Hew (1985). From Waterloo to Balaclava: tactics, technology, and the British army, 1815–1854. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Pr. p. 89. ISBN 978-0-521-30439-9.
  17. ^ "7th (The Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards". National Army Museum. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
  18. ^ "The War – Embarcation of Troops". The Times. No. 36061. London. 9 February 1900. p. 6.
  19. ^ "7th (Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards". Anglo-Boer War. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
  20. ^ "The Dragoon Guards". The Long, Long Trail. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
  21. ^ "7th (The Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards". National Army Museum. Archived from the original on 10 August 2016. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
  22. ^ "7th (The Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards". National Army Museum. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
  23. ^ "The York Army Museum wins Heritage Lottery Fund support". 9 December 2012. Archived from the original on 17 December 2017. Retrieved 16 December 2017.
  24. ^ Imperial War Museum, War Memorials Register, Ref 19945.
  25. ^ IWM WMR Ref 19990.
  26. ^ 'Norwich Remembers' at Geograph.org.uk.
  27. ^ Mills, T.F. "7th (The Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards". regiments.org. Archived from the original on February 27, 2007. Retrieved March 30, 2007.

Sources

  • Buchanan, Brenda (1999). Sir John (later Lord) Ligonier in Bath History. Millstream Books. ISBN 978-0948975516.
  • Cannon, Richard (1839). Historical Record of the 7th (Princess Royal's Regiment) of Dragoons. Longman, Orme & Co.
  • Wood, Stephen (2004). Ligonier, John [formerly Jean-Louis de Ligonier], Earl Ligonier (Online ed.). Oxford DNB. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/16653.

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