From The Archives
It is our expectation that this category showcases a collection of articles balanced between our founder regiments and between the centuries.
From The Archives
It is our expectation that this category showcases a collection of articles balanced between our founder regiments and between the centuries.
Rex Hewer was educated at Bloxham School, where he was a member of the Officer Training Corps. He commissioned into the Royal Field Artillery on 12 October 1914, and saw active service in the First World War.
William Gibbs was born in 1877.
He was educated at Eton and Oxford and joined the 7th Hussars from University in February 1900. He served in the Boer War and took part in the long drives which finally captured the elusive Boer Commandos.
After wartime service with the 7th Hussars, covering the long retreat from Rangoon through Burma to India in 1942 and participation in the Allied advance in Italy in 1944-45, Patrick Howard-Dobson rose to command his regiment in the 1960s.
General Sir John Hackett, Colonel of The Queen’s Royal Irish Hussars from 1969 to 1975, died aged 86 at his home, Coberley Mill, on 9 September 1997.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.