GUIDONS--The first or King's guidon to be of crimson silk, embroidered and fringed with gold and silver; in the centre the rose and thistle conjoined, and crown over them, with the motto _Dieu et mon Droit_ underneath: the white horse in a compartment in the first and fourth corners, and III.D in gold characters on a light blue ground in a compartment in the second and third corners. The second and third guidons to be of light blue silk, in the centre the white horse within the garter on a crimson ground, and motto _Nec aspera terrent_: the white horse on a scarlet ground in the first and fourth compartments, and III.D within a wreath of roses and thistles upon a scarlet ground in the second and third compartments. [Sidenote: 1752] In 1752 Lieut.-General Bland was removed to the King's dragoon guards, and His Majesty conferred the colonelcy of HIS OWN DRAGOONS on James Lord Tyrawley from the fourteenth dragoons. [Sidenote: 1753] [Sidenote: 1754] In 1753 the KING'S OWN lay at Colchester, and in 1754 at Croydon. In December of this year it was broken up into half troops, and employed on coast duty: being scattered along the sea coast, from Shoreham to the Isle of Wight. [Sidenote: 1755] In April, 1755, Lord Tyrawley was removed to the second foot guards, and King George II. conferred the colonelcy of HIS OWN DRAGOONS on GEORGE, EARL OF ALBEMARLE, from the twentieth foot. [Sidenote: 1756] In June, of the same year, the whole regiment assembled at Lewes, where it remained till July, 1756. At this time the KING'S OWN, in common with the other regiments of dragoons, received the addition, novel to the British service, of a _light troop_. In July it marched to Reading, and in December of the same year, to Northampton. [Sidenote: 1757] [Sidenote: 1758] The regiment marched to Henley, Amersham, and High Wycombe in June, 1757; and war having been declared against France in May, 1758, the light troop, then commanded by Captain St. Leger, was ordered into camp on South Sea Common, for the purpose of forming, with the light troops of eight other regiments, part of the force intended for a descent on the coast of France, the whole forming a brigade, under Colonel Eliott, afterwards Lord Heathfield. The troops embarked May 19th, sailed June the 1st, and arrived on the French coast so as to land in Cancalle Bay on the 5th. On the 7th the army moved on St. Maloes, the light troops forming the advance guard, and encamping about a mile from the town.