-------------------------+--------+--------+----------------------- The Regiment was raised chiefly in the neighbourhood of London. It wore cuirasses from its formation to 1688, and again from 1704 to 1714. It bears the King’s Cypher within the Garter. It received its title in 1714 for its brilliant campaigns in Flanders and Germany. It is commonly known as “The K. D. G.’s,” and at one time was nicknamed “The Trades Union.” SECOND DRAGOON GUARDS. -------------------------+-----------------+----------------------- | Colour of | Titles. +--------+--------+Campaigns, Battles, &c. |Uniform.|Facings.| -------------------------+--------+--------+----------------------- Colonel the Earl of |Scarlet,|Scarlet,|Boyne, 1690. Peterborough’s Regiment|1685--. | 1685. |Aughrim, 1691. of Horse. 1685–1688| | Buff, |Almanza, 1707. (Its Colonel’s name.) | | since |Almanara, 1710. 1688–1715| | 1742– |Saragosa, 1710. The Princess of Wales’s | | 1784. |Spain, 1704–1710. Own Royal Regiment of | | Black, |Corbach, 1760. Horse. 1715–1727| | 1784– |Warbourg, 1760. The Queen’s Own Royal | | 1855.|Wilhelmstahl, 1762. Regiment of Horse. | | Buff, |Germany, 1760–1763. 1727–1746| | 1855--.|Dunkirk, 1793. 2nd Queen’s Dragoon | | |Cateau, 1794. Guards. 1746–1872| | |Tournay, 1794. 2nd Dragoon Guards, | | |Flanders, 1793–1795. Queen’s Bays. 1872---- | | |Flushing, 1809. | | |Lucknow, 1858. | | |Indian Mutiny, 1858. -------------------------+--------+--------+----------------------- The Regiment was chiefly raised near London. It wore cuirasses for three years. It bears the “Royal Cypher within the Garter.” It received its title in 1715 for its conduct at the battle of Preston. It is not known when its facings were changed to Buff, but it was between 1690 and 1742. Being mounted on bay horses about 1767 caused it to be called the “Queen’s Bays,” as the other heavy Regiments (except the Scots Greys) had black horses. It is now commonly called “the Bays.” THIRD DRAGOON GUARDS.