ELEVENTH HUSSARS. -------------------------+-----------------+----------------------- | Colour of | Titles. +--------+--------+Campaigns, Battles, &c. |Uniform.|Facings.| -------------------------+--------+--------+----------------------- Colonel Philip |Scarlet,| Buff, |Warbourg, 1760. Honeywood’s Regiment of| 1715– | 1715– |Wilhelmstahl, 1762. Dragoons. 1715–1732| 1784.| 1840.|Germany, 1760–1763. (Its Colonel’s name.) | Blue, | Blue, |Famars, 1793. 1732–1751| 1784– | 1840--.|Valenciennes, 1793. 11th Dragoons. 1751–1783| 1830.| |Cateau, 1794. 11th Light Dragoons. |Scarlet,| |Villers-en-Couché, 1794. 1783–1840| 1830– | |Tournay, 1794. 11th, Prince Albert’s Own| 1840.| |Guildermalsen, 1795. Hussars. 1840----| Blue, | |Flanders, 1793–1795. | 1840--.| |Bergen, 1799. | | |Egmont-op-Zee, 1799. | | |Alkmaer, 1799. | | |Aboukir, 1801. | | |Mandora, 1801. | | |Alexandria, 1801. | | |Egypt, 1801. | | |El-Bodon, 1811. | | |Salamanca, 1812. | | |Burgos, 1812. | | |Peninsula, 1811–1813. | | |Quatre-Bras, 1815. | | |Waterloo, 1815. | | |Netherlands, 1815. | | |Bhurtpore, 1826. | | |Alma, 1854. | | |Balaklava, 1854. | | |Inkerman, 1854. | | |Sevastopol, 1855. -------------------------+--------+--------+----------------------- The Regiment was raised in Essex and a joining counties. It received its title in 1840 in honour of having formed Prince Albert’s escort from Dover to Canterbury, on his arrival in England to be married to Her Majesty. It is said to have borne the motto “Motus componere” when raised. It bears “the Sphinx” for Egypt 1801. It was nicknamed “the Cherry Pickers” from some of the men being taken prisoners in a fruit garden during the Peninsula war; also “the Cherubims” from its crimson overalls. TWELFTH LANCERS.