During it's 300 year History, The Regiment has served Worldwide and has had many
and varied postings.
1661 - 1761
21st Oct.1661 : First formed
muster of a 'Troop of well-appointed horsemen' on St. George's Fields, Southwark, London.
Dec. 1661 :
Embarked in the Thames on board the ships 'Tobias, James and Olive Branch'.
15th/29th Jan. 1662 : Expedition sailed for Tangier, North Africa.
1662 - 1684 : Part of
Garrison of Tangier holding it against the Moors.
1st Feb. 1684 : Embarked on the Charles. Landed
in London.
1684 :
In Rickmansworth and Berkhamstead, later at Slough and Maidenhead. In September concentrated at Southwark for 'a great
review' on Putney Heath, then Berkshire.
Feb. 1685 : Troops at Brentford,
Uxbridge, Colnbrook and Hounslow. In March four troops encamped in Hyde Park. In April the Regiment moved out
into Hertfordshire and Essex.
Apr. 1685 : Two troops given urgent
orders to march to Carlisle, arrived there in May.
June 1685 : Marched to Chester, returned to London
in September. Other troops to Salisbury, then to Bridport, Axminster and Chard.
July 1685 : Battle of Sedgemoor (Somerset).
Troops to Salisbury, Wells and Taunton guarding prisoners, then to London for a review by the King.
Nov. 1685 : Regiment takes up winter quarters
in the West Country (Honiton, Barnstable, Bideford, Ottery St. Mary, South Molton and Tiverton).
1686 :
Training in Hampshire, then on to Hounslow for summer camp. Then to Shropshire, Cheshire, and Welsh border (RHQ, Shrewsbury).
1687 : Southwark
and Lambeth prior to camp at Hounslow, then to Norwich escorting Mails.
1688 : Suffolk and
Essex. Then anti-smuggling duties in Kent (Canterbury, Ashford, Hythe, Romney and Lydd). Followed by a move to Rochester
and the Isle of Grain. Four troops then guarded the infant Prince of Wales at Richmond. The Regiment then ordered
to Norwich, returning again to London (Holborn and Gray's Inn, then Southwark and Lambeth).
1688 : (William III landed in
West Country and overthrew James II ). Regiment marched to Portsmouth, moving to Salisbury, Blandford, Dorchester, Axminster.
Returned to Salisbury, Portsmouth and NE Hampshire.
1689 : Party in the Isle of
Wight guarding prisoners: then whole Regiment to Shrewsbury, marching later to Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Then on operations
to Edinburgh, Stirling, Forfar and Aberdeen, then to Kirkcudbright for operations in Ireland, crossed in October to Carlingford,
operating against forces still loyal to James II.
1690 - 1691 : Operating throughout Ireland until capture of Limerick.
1692 - 1693 : Returned to England landing at Cockermouth and Whitehaven.
Marched south to Leicestershire on duty escorting mails, then moved to south of England on anti-smuggling patrols.
May 1694 : Embarked for the Continent for campaign against
Louis XIV of France. Operating in Belguim against French.
Nov. 1697 : Returned to England on signing of Peace Treaty.
1698 - 1699 : Stationed in Yorkshire (Ripon, Richmond, Askrigg, Bedale,
Barnard Castle, Skipton, Stockton and Durham). Then south to Leicestershire, concentrating at Nottingham for review
in 1699.
1700 : To
London for review on Hounslow Heath. Then north again, troops going to Kingston-on-Hull, Wakefield, Selby, Penrith,
Carlisle and Hexham and later to Doncaster and Mansfield.
Feb. 1702 : Move to Essex, embarking at Harwich for Flanders
for campaign against Louis XIV of France. Operating in Holland and Belgium.
Winter 1703/1704 : Regiment ordered home for posting to Portugal.
Arrived Spithead, February 1704, sailing March and arrived in Lisbon 13th March.
1704 - 1705 : Operating
in Portugal and Spain against the French.
July 1705 : Embarked
Lisbon, sailed through Straits of Gibralter and landed at Barcelona (Spain).
1705 - 1712 : Operating in Catalonia
(SE Spain), near Valencia, Alicante, Almenara, Sarragossa and Brihuega.
1712 :
Returned to England. Posted to North Country with troops at Manchester, Sheffield, Macclesfield.
July 1714 : Moved south and quartered
at Aylesbury, Banbury, Bicester, Brackley, Buckingham, Thame, Witney and Woodstock. Then marched north to Yorkshire.
Oct. 1715 : Ordered to Newcastle for operations
against the Jacobites in 1715 Rebellion. Marched to Edinburgh, then pursued the rebels via Jedburgh and Carlisle to
Preston.
1719 :
Marched north to Fife (Coupar and St. Andrews) to guard against further Jacobite operations. Then returned to England
on anti-smuggling patrols.
1722:
Durham.
1723 - 1740 : Review by George II on Hounslow Heath, then going to Hornby
(Lancashire). Detachments continually on coast duty against smugglers, the Regiment being quartered in varying parts
of England.
1740 : From Worcestershire
(Worcester, Bromsgrove, Evesham, Pershore) to Windsor, then Leicestershire.
1742 : From winter quarters
in Somerset moved to Newbury, then Devizes.
Aug. 1742 : Embarked for Flanders. Took up quarters at Ghent.
Feb. 1743 : Marched to the Rhine via Brussels, Louvain, Tirlemont, Tongres,
Maarstricht, Aix-la- Chapelle to the area of Cologne. Crossed the Rhine at Andernach, marched via Frankfurt to Aschaffenburg.
June 1743 : Battle of Dettingen.
Oct/Nov. 1743 : Returned to winter quarters in Ghent.
1744 : Operations against
French round Lille (Belgium).
1745 : Battle of Fontenoy,
followed by orders to return to England to deal with second Jacobite rising. (However they arrived too late).
1746 : Quartered at Southwark.
1746 - 1748 : Quartered in Southern England on anti-smuggling duties.
1750 - 1754 : Stationed in Scotland, then Yorkshire, East Anglia and Kent.
1758 : Light Troop formed.
Took part in landings at St. Malo and Cherbourg.
1759 : Regiment in Southern England,
then East Anglia.
1760 : Ordered to Germany, embarking at
Gravesend, landing at Bremen and marching south via Minden, Detmold to Fritzlar for operations against the French.
31st July 1760 : Battle of Warburg. Marched west to Rhine. Battle
of Clostercamp. Return to winter quarters near Munster.
1761 : Operating in Hesse, returning
to Paderborn. Further operations near Dortmund, Hamm, Werl (Battle of Vellinghuasen). Then a move east past Detmold,
crossing the Weser near Hamelin. Marched 175 miles to winter quarters at Hornburg, East Friesland (on the coast).
1761 - 1861
1762 - 1763 : Concentrated at Brakel, near Paderborn. Operations
round Liebenau and towards Frankfurt, winter quarters in Munster and Osnabruck. Returned to England on conclusion
of war.
1763 - 1780 : Stationed in turn
in Scotland, North of England, Dorset, Surrey, Canterbury, Suffolk and York. Periodic reviews in London.
1781 - 1784 : Stationed in Scotland.
1785 :
Worcestershire, Salisbury, Dorset troops widely scattered at Dorchester, Axminster, Wareham and Weymouth.
1787 - 1789 : Colchester, Ipswich,
Lincoln, Newark and York.
1790 :
Returned to Scotland.
1791 :
Marched south via Carlisle to Manchester and Liverpool.
1792 :
To Coventry, suppressing mobs in Birmingham, then to Exeter on 'coast duty'.
1793 :
Dorset and Wiltshire, ordered to move to Flanders on outbreak of war against France. Two squadrons embarked at
Blackwall and landed at Ostend. Operations around Valenciennes and towards Cambrai. Then through Ypres
to screen the seige of Dunkirk. Firther operations around Menin.
April 1794 : Battle
of Beaumont.
May 1794 :
Battle of Willems ( near Lille, Belgium).
1794 :
Five troops left behind in England, stationed around Dorchester. Among other duties was to guard King George III
while bathing at Weymouth, in case "one of the smugglers row-gallies, in the costant practice of running cargoes between St.
Alban's Head and Weymouth, may land and carry the King away at night."
1795 :
The two squadrons operating in Flanders withdrew with the rest of army east into Germany via Reine, Diepholz, the Weser and
Bremen. Embarked for England and went to Epsom, later re-uniting with the other troops at Dorchester.
In camp at Sutton, then Weymouth and Canterbury.
1797 - 1799 : To Warwickshire (Birmingham
and Coventry, Bristol, Gloucester), then Dorchester and Weymouth, then Salisbury and Blandford with a detachment at Andover
"escorting treasure wagons".
1800 :
Summer camp on Swinley Common. Then to Croydon and Epsom.
1801 :
Sussex and Kent on coast duty.
1802 :
To the West Country (riots at Trowbridge), then Exeter and Taunton, with coast duty in Cornwall.
1803 - 1805 : Dorchester and Weymouth,
then Arundel and Chichester, with detachments on revenue duty at Bognor, Littlehampton, Worthing, then to East Anglia.
1805 :
North to York, then return to Suffolk.
1806 :
Marched north to Edinburgh. (In three months the Regiment covered 600 miles).
1807 :
Moved to Ireland with RHQ at Dundalk and troops at Belturber, Lisburn, Londonderry, Monaghan, Enniskillen and Sligo.
1808 :
Concentrated at Dublin.
1809 :
Moved to Cork awaiting embarkation. Sailed in September for Lisbon for operations against Napoleon's French Army
in Portugal and Spain.
1810 :
Operating under Wellington against the French. Withdrawing through Torres Vedras Lines and then advancing again
as the French withdrew from Portugal.
1811 :
Battle of Fuentes D'Onoro.
1812 : March
to Madrid followed by a retreat back into Portugal and to Alacantara.
May 1813 : Advanced again
into Spain to Salamanca. Battle of Vittoria, further advance taking the Regiment almost to the Pyrenees and the
French frontier.
March 1814 : Regiment entered France at
St, Jean de Luz on the Bay of Biscay coast. Moved on through Toulouse to Villefranche. On abdication
of Napoleon the Regiment marched across France to Calais, crossing to England. Marched via Sevenoaks and Richmond
to the new Depot at Newbury, then troops to Bath, Trowbridge and Bristol, later concentrating at Bristol.
1815 : RHQ
and two squadrons at Exeter, squadrons at Taunton and Truro on 'coast duty'.
April 1815 : Immediate
orders to move to Canterbury for embarkation at Dover and Ramsgate. Landed at Ostend, quartered in Ghent and later
Ninove, for operations against Napoleon.
16th June 1815 : Moved out via Grammont and Ath to Quatre Bras.
18th June 1815 : Battle of Waterloo. Followed by march
to Paris. Then marched to Rouen for occupation of France, later moving to Montivilliers, near Havre, then to Abbeville.
Jan. 1816 :
Returned to England, going to Canterbury, then to the new Depot at Ipswich.
Aug.1817 - June 1818 : Moved to Glasgow, Hamilton, Ayr, Dumfries, Stirling.
1818 :
Sailed for Ireland.
1820 - 1822 : Returned from Ireland,
first to Lancashire, then to Dorset to assist revenue officers against still-active smugglers, then to Kent.
1823 :
Took over King's duty in London, stationed at the Cavalry Barracks in Regents Park. Then marched to York.
1824 :
Moved to Edinburgh with detachments at Perth, Forfar and Cupar Angus.
1825 - 1829 : Moved to Ireland (Dundalk),
later going to Dublin, then Newbridge, Cork, Fermoy, Bandon and Ballincollig.
1829 :
To Lancashire, picqueting riots among cotton mill workers.
1830 :
East Anglia to maintain order amongst the farm workers.
1832 - 1834 : Marched south to Canterbury, then
to Dorchester (troops detached to Weymouth, Christchurch and Winchester), then Brighton (one squadron at Canterbury).
1835 - 1837 : Ireland: Newbridge, then Dublin,
then Cork and Ballincolig.
1838 - 1840 : Returned to England, going first
to Sheffield, then to Glasgow and Hamilton.
1841 :
Returned south to Leeds, with detachments at Carlisle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Bradford.
1842 - 1843 : To Manchester, then south again
with RHQ at Birmingham and troops at Coventry, Dudley and Newcastle-under-Lyme.
1843 - 1848 : Sailed to Ireland, first to
Newbridge, then Dublin, Dundalk, Cork and Cahir.
1848 :
Returned to England, going to York, Bradford, Halifax, Leeds and Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
1850 :
Nottingham, Sheffield and Loughborough.
1851 :
Barnet, then Brighton and Christchurch.
1852 :
Birmingham and Coventry, then Manchester and Preston.
1854 :
Outbreak of war against Russia. Embarked Liverpool in May, disenbarked at Varna, a Bulgarian port on the Black Sea.
Re-embarked in September for the Crimea, landing Balaclava after a violent storm (in one ship only 11 horses survived out
of 110).
25th Oct. 1854 : Battle of Balaclava. Then remaining in that area
until embarking for Scutari in Turkey, a year later.
May 1856 : Re-embarked for England
on troopship 'Himalaya' landing at Portsmouth and going to Aldershot.
June 1856 : Marched to Southhampton, embarked
for Dublin. Joined the Depot at Newbridge.
1856 - 1861 : Stationed in Ireland, mainly in Dublin
and the Curragh.
1861 - 1961
1861 - 1865: Returned to England,
going first to Birmingham, Coventry and Sheffield. Followed by two years in Aldershot.
1865 - 1867: Brighton and Shorncliffe,
then Manchester.
1867 - 1873: Further service
in Ireland. Troops on detachment throughout Ireland concentrating at the Curragh in the summer for the drill season.
1873 - 1875: Moved to Edinburgh
and Hamilton.
1875 - 1879: Moved south to
York, then to Norwich, Ipswich and Colchester, then to Aldershot. Returned to Colchester and Norwich.
1879:
Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham.
1880 - 1886: Sailed to Ireland.
RHQ at Longford, troops at Athlone,Ballinrobe, Castlebar and Gort on escort and patrol duties.
1884 - 1885: Party of 44 picked
men detached to the Sudan, taking part in the battle of Abu Klea as part of the Camel Corps.
1886 - 1889: Regiment returned
to Aldershot.
1889 - 1893: Canterbury, Colchester,
then Aldershot on manoeuvres, returning to Colchester and then marching north to York for two years.
1893 - 1897: Sailed to Ireland
(Dublin, the Curragh, then Dundalk).
1897:
Returned via Holyhead to Aldershot, then om manoeuvres in Sussex and to Hounslow with a squadron at Hampton Court and three
troops at Woolwich.
1899:
To Aldershot for a review by Queen Victoria, then manoeuvres on Salisbury Plain, terminated by orders to return to Hounslow
for preparing for service in South Africa. Embarked in October on S.S. Manchester Port at Tilbury. Disembarked
at Durban after calling at Capetown for orders. Entrained for Pietermaritzburg the same day. Continual operations
against Boers.
March:, 1900: Entered Ladysmith.
Followed by patroling in Northern Natal round Newcastle.
1901:
Left Newcastle for Pretoria and the Eastern Transvaal, then in Orange Free State, constantly operating against the Boers.
1902: Finished
the war in the South Western Transvaal. Marched to Bloemfontein and embarked at Capetown for Southampton.
Nov., 1902: Shorncliffe
(inspected by the German Emperor), manoeuvres on Salisbury Plain.
June, 1904:
1904 -1909: Embarked
at Southampton for the first tour in India. Arrived Bombay and quartered in Lucknow. Remained
there ecept for manoeuvres and a review at Agra.
1909 - 1911: Moved to Muttra.
Nov., 1911: Embarked
at Bombay for South Africa, landing at Durban and being stationed in Pretoria.
1913:
To Johannesburg to help quell riots.
Aug., 1914: Embarked
at Capetown on outbreak of First World War. Disembarked Southampton, by train to Ludgershall. Ordered
overseas, entrained at Amesbury for Southampton. Sailed for Ostend and Zeebrugge, billeted near Bruges.
Then operating towards Ypres, Moorslede and Passchendaele against the Germans, mainlyin trenches in dismounted role.
1915:
Further trench operations near Ypres, then Loos and Bethune, in the "Hohenzollern" sector of the trenches.
1916:
Out of the line, training on the coast. Then to Amiens.
1917:
Manoeuvres out of the line, Then to Arras in action in the trenches opposite German Hindenberg Line.
1918:
Continuous operations on the front, mainly in the Amiens area. Moved north through Douai and Tournai, passing
Fontenoy and Willems, being on the march to the northern sector when the armistice was announced. Them marched
to Namur, crossing the field of Waterloo and later moved near Liege.
1919:
To Cologne with Army of Occupation.
Aug,. 1919: Returned to England, landing at Dover
and going to Hounslow.
1920 - 1922: To Ireland, landing at Dublin, going to
Ballinasloe. Patrols and operations against I.R.A. Returned to the Curragh.
1922:
Embarked at North Wall for Liverpool, going to Hounslow with a squadron to Hampton Court.
1923:
To Aldershot.
1926: To
Hounslow, preparing for foriegn service.
Sep,. 1927: To Egypt, going to Cairo (Abbassia).
Oct,. 1929: To India, stationed in
Secunderabad:
Oct,. 1932: To Meerut.
1935:
Embarked at Bombay for Egypt, disembarking at Suez, and going to Abbassia, near Cairo.
1936:
Sailed for England, stationed at Shorncliffe.
1938 - 1939: Embarked Southampton for Palestine. Stationed
near Caesarea, then moving south of Jaffa on Internal Security duties.
Sept,. 1939: Start of World War II.
1940:
Marched inland to Jordan Valley. Camps at Acre and Tiberias, moving south of Jaffa for mechanisation.
The Regiment then moved to the Royal Armoured Corps school at Abbassia, Cairo, for training.
