Why not follow the story of The Queen’s Royal Hussars from its beginning in 1685 up until the present day by using the timeline:
Between the Wars In 1921 the title of the Regiment changed for the final time to “3rd The King’s Own Hussars”, a few months before it embarked for two years in Turkey as part of the allied army of occupation. from there it proceeded to Egypt until 1927 when it…
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The Second World War On the 11th of June Italy declared war on Britain and France and our forces in the Western Desert began attacking Italian positions over the Egyptian border into Libya. The Egyptian Frontier, 12 June - 12 September 1940 The first action was taking the fort of…
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The Second World War During the Second World War the 4th Hussars were seemingly destroyed, time after time, only to rise phoenix-like from the ashes to find their next enemy. From 1941 they were under the watchful eye of their Colonel of the Regiment, Winston Churchill who certainly helped to…
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The Second World War Initially during the “Phoney War” the 3rd Hussars were brigade in the 1st Armoured Brigade alongside their old friends The 4th Hussars. After France had fallen the Regiment was sent to Cairo to join The 7th Armoured Brigade of 7th Armoured Division, “The Desert Rats”. Why…
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Middle East (Egypt and Libya) 1939-42 The Egyptian Frontier, 12 June - 12 September 1940 On the outbreak of war on 3 Sep 1939, the 8th Hussars were stationed in Egypt and assigned to the Light Armoured Brigade (Egypt), part of the Mobile Division (Egypt). In Feb 1940 the formations…
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Keeping the Peace The Second World War had ended, however, the 4th Hussars did not go home for two and a half years after the enemy had surrendered and by the end of May 1945 had moved up into Austria near the Yugoslav border. Austria, unscathed by war, was a…
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Army of Occupation For the next five years the 8th Hussars had several homes moving first to Itzehoe in Schleswig Holstein, then a short time in Moll in Belgium where they converted to the new Comet tanks, and hence back to Itzehoe. On 15th August 1945 came news of the…
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Palestine The 3rd Hussars arrived in Palestine in October 1945 after a year in Lebanon and Syria following service in Italy. Stationed initially some 12 miles south-east of the Jewish city of Tel Aviv, within four months they became part of the 6th Armoured Division and absorbed some 400 of…
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Post War The 7th Hussars stayed in Italy for a while then marched north ending up in June 1946 at Soltau, in northern Germany, as part of the occupying Army, where they spent a year before sailing back to Yorkshire after twelve years abroad in December 1947. Two years of…
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Malaya On the 20th of August 1948, the troopship Dilwera left Southampton bound for Singapore carrying 35 officers and 817 soldiers of the 4th Hussars. The vast majority of the regiment had plenty of active service experience, although, of course, not in this theatre or role. The enemy was almost…
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