The Queen’s Royal Hussars Due to the post-Cold War restructuring of the Armed Forces under ‘Options for Change,’ it was announced in 1990 that The Queen’s Own Hussars and The Queen’s Royal Irish Hussars would amalgamate to form The Queen’s Royal Hussars. On 1st September 1993, the new Regiment was formed at an amalgamation parade held at Wessex Barracks, Bad Fallingbostel. The Regiment moved to Cambrai Barracks, Catterick in July 1995 where it provided the Armoured Regiment to 19 Mechanised…

Amalgamation Due to post-Cold War restructuring of the Armed Forces under ‘Options for Change,’ it was announced in 1990 that ‘The Queen’s Own Hussars and The Queen’s Royal Irish Hussars would amalgamate to form ‘The Queen’s Royal Hussars. On the 1st of September 1993, the new Regiment was formed at an amalgamation parade held at Wessex Barracks, Bad Fallingbostel.  

Amalgamation Due to post-Cold War restructuring of the Armed Forces under ‘Options for Change,’ it was announced in 1990 that ‘The Queen’s Own Hussars and The Queen’s Royal Irish Hussars would amalgamate to form ‘The Queen’s Royal Hussars. On the 1st of September 1993, the new Regiment was formed at an amalgamation parade held at Wessex Barracks, Bad Fallingbostel.

The Gulf War 1990-91   After weeks of posturing, the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein sent his army into Kuwait, a sovereign territory he had long claimed belonged to Iraq. The British government, along with an impressively large and diverse body of allies, decided that Saddam Hussein must not be allowed to get away with his actions and that, if necessary, his army should be expelled by force. The Ministry of Defence announced that, in that event, the core of the…

Malaya and Borneo Early in September 1962, the advance parties of The Queen’s Royal Irish Hussars left for Malaya and Singapore, and on the 9th of October, the main party arrived at Penang, again on S.S. Oxfordshire. Early in December news came of the outbreak of the rebellion at Brunei. Within days the Queen’s Royal Irish Hussars were once again in action in a war which became known to the world as ‘Confrontation’. In Brunei, the rebellion was fomented and…

Aden and The Persian Gulf The advance party of the Irish Hussars flew to Aden on the 9th of October, and an element of that party flew on to Sharjah in the Persian Gulf, where ‘A’ Squadron was to operate under the direct command of Land Forces Persian Gulf. On the 25th of October, the main party embarked at Southampton in the S.S. Oxfordshire and set sail for the new adventure. The Oxfordshire was a comfortable ship, the days passed…

Northern Ireland In 1972, after an absence from Ireland of 93 years, and at the end of the first year the Queen’s Own Hussars had spent together since 1964, ‘RHQ’ and ‘A’ Squadron were sent to County Armagh. This was the first of four tours that the Queen’s Own Hussars was to undertake from BAOR in the 1970s. 1972 The Queen’s Own Hussars had converted to an Armoured Regiment at Hohne in 1970 and were back in the 7th Armoured…

Aden Aden, situated on the south coast of what is now Yemen, had been a British colony since 1839. Commanding the southern entrance to the Red Sea, it was an important British air and naval base on the route to India. It was also crucial for safeguarding access to Middle Eastern oil supplies. In January 1963, in response to growing nationalist unrest in the region, the British persuaded the sheikhdoms of the Aden Protectorates to merge with the Colony of…

The Queen’s Own Hussars The Queen’s Own Hussars were formed from the amalgamation of 3rd The King’s Own Hussars and The 7th Queen’s Own Hussars in Tidworth in 1958. The Queen’s Own Hussars remained in England until 1960 with one Squadron serving in Aden. It was brought back together as the Armoured Regiment of the 6th Infantry Brigade at Munster in Northern Germany. They moved to Detmold two years later and back to Catterick in 1965, except for ‘A’ Squadron…

35 years, The Queen’s Royal Irish Hussars – ‘A thousand glories reborn’ The Queen’s Royal Irish Hussars began life in 1958 where it was to end just 35 years later, as an Armoured Regiment in the 7th Armoured Brigade in Lower Saxony. It was against the leaden gloom of the German sky that the respective flags of the 4th and 8th Hussars were lowered for the last time, and to the sound of “Reveille” the flag of the new Regiment…