Welcome Message

Hello my name is Lt Colonel Richard Brace and I would like to welcome you to our regimental museum web site. From 1685 to the present day we follow the fortunes of the 1st King's Dragoon Guards, The Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards) as the two senior cavalry regiments of the line, and 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards, (The Welsh Cavalry) who are the present serving regiment.

Hopefully, your visit to our website will be both interesting and informative.

Thank you.

Lt Colonel W R Brace MBE. BEM

Regimental Secretary 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards

Introduction

1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards began its formal existence on January 1st 1959, this being the day when the 1st King’s Dragoon Guards was amalgamated with the 2nd Dragoon Guards, better known as the Queen’s Bays. Thus ended the separate identities of two of the oldest and most distinguished regiments in the British Army.
Yet this new Regiment emerged like a phoenix; naturally it was fully equipped militarily from the moment of its birth, but it also inherited intact the less tangible, and equally vital, martial qualities which can only be painstakingly acquired through generations of experience in peace and war.

Within our site you will find information on the regiment from 1685 up to the present day.
We are very proud of our regiment and would like to share over 300 years of its history with you.

Affiliated Squadron:
The Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry

Allied Regiments:
The Governor General's Horse Guards Canada Royal Canadian Armoured Corps
The 11th Cavalry (Frontier Force) Pakistan Army
1st/15th Royal New South Wales Lancers
1st Reconnaissance Regiment Sri Lankan Armoured Corps
1st Special Service Battalion, South African National Defence Force
1st Regiment Etranger de Cavalrie, French Army

Allied Ship:
H M S Monmouth