Home Service
In 1854 the 3rd was ordered to recruit men and buy horses for the 4th Light Dragoons in the Crimea providing 253 and 300 respectively.
In 1861 the title of the regiment changed once more to “The 3rd King’s Own Hussars”, during the fourth year of a six-year tour in Ireland.
In 1868 they sailed again for India spending eleven peaceful years there before another nineteen in England and Ireland, equally without incident.
The Light Camel Regiment for Active service in Sudan
The 3rd provided its share for the socially elite Camel Corps in 1884, three years before it was once again sent for service in India.
Disease disabled the regiment as normal in India before finally it was sent to see active service in South Africa in November 1901.
The hard fighting had already finished and the 3rd found themselves engaged in ‘driving’, rounding up the Boers out on the veld with the only serious casualties being the horses who were worked very hard.
Within six months the war was over and the Regiment was sent back to India until 1907, returning home to England in 1911.
