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:
Korea The 8th Hussars arrived in Korea as part of the 29th British Infantry Brigade on 14 November 1950 and were sent south to Seoul where the Allied forces were already in retreat from the Chinese. Almost as soon as they arrived there, on 2 January 1951 they were involved…
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Handing over the barracks in Luneberg to the Bundeswehr It was decided that as the 8th Hussars had been in Wyvern Barracks, Luneberg, for six and a half years, a small unofficial ceremony should take place to hand it over to the 83rd Panzer Battalion, who were to occupy the…
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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…
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Amalgamation On 24th October 1958, in Hohne, the 4th Hussars amalgamated with the 8th Hussars to form The Queen's Royal Irish Hussars. Some may well think that the less said about the period before 22nd October (when the actual weekend began) the better. The problem of where we were going…
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Amalgamation with The 7th Queen's Own Hussars The Regiment returned home to amalgamate with The 7th Queen's Own Hussars at Tidworth on the 3rd of November 1958 to form The Queen's Own Hussars after 18 years of unbroken Foreign Service. To pretend that two old and proud Regiments could be…
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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…
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Amalgamation with 3rd The King's Own Hussars It was on the journey home, by boat, from Hong Kong in August 1957 that the 7th Queen's Own Hussars were to be amalgamated the following year with 3rd The King's Own Hussars at Tidworth on the 3rd of November 1958 to form…
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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…
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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.…
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