QRH Families Day – Tidworth
A small team from The Museum of The Queen’s Royal Hussars were invited to attend the regimental families day held on Saturday the 23rd of September at Tidworth.
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Article: Sergeant E.A. Dickerson – 7H
Throughout the 19th Century and the early part of the 20th, the Russian and the British Empires viewed with suspicion each other’s extension of power over the arc running from Constantinople to Lhasa.
Obituary: Maj G.R.H. Fielding, D.S.O.
Maj GRH Fielding died on the 23rd of January 2022. He served with 3H from 1939-48.
Obituary: Capt H. S. R. Lovett
Captain Hugh Lovett died on the 15th of May 1977. He served with QOH from 1964-75.
CITATION AND AWARD OF THE SULTAN’S DISTINGUISHED SERVICE MEDAL (GALLANTRY): SGT RN COSTELLO – QRIH
Awarded for distinguished service or devotion to duty over a long period, and for conspicuous acts of gallantry at risk of life, but not in the face of the enemy.
Lieutenant General Edward Seager, 8th Light Dragoons
Edward Seager was born on 11 June 1812, and, after serving in the ranks for nine years and one hundred and eighty-eight days from 1832, became a Cornet of the 8th Light Dragoons on 17 September 1841.
CITATION AND AWARD OF DISTINGUISHED SERVICE ORDER (DSO): CAPT J VAUGHAN – 7H
“For services during operations in South Africa”.
Trooper Edward Michael Ryan, 3rd King’s Own Hussars
Edward Ryan fled his home in Ireland during the troubles of the 1920s across the Irish Sea to England where he joined the British Army as a boy recruit at the age of 14.
Trooper Thorne: One Lucky Soldier
April 2012 Trooper Thorne, aged 20, from the Queen’s Royal Hussars, was shot by an enemy fighter while on operations in Helmand province Afghanistan.
Trooper Walter Ballard, 7th Queen’s Own Hussars, 1953
The 7th Queen’s Own Hussars stayed in Italy after the war for a while before moving north and ending up in June 1946 at Soltau, in northern Germany, as part of the occupying Army.
