1922: 4th/7th Dragoon Guards formed by amalgamation of 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards and 7th Dragoon Guards (Princess Royal's)

1935: 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards

1938: Mechanised (last mounted parade 15 August 1938)

1939: transferred to Royal Armoured Corps

1940: cadre detatched to form 22nd Dragoons

1992: amalgamated with 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards to form The Royal Dragoon Guards

Deployment

1922.10.22 4th/7th Dragoon Guards
formed at Trimulgherry by amalgamation of 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards, and 6th Dragoon Guards (Princess Royal's)
1922.10 India: Trimulgherry
1922 Secunderabad
1927 Sialkot
1929 England: Shorncliffe
1931 Tidworth 2 Cav Bde
1935 Scotland: Edinburgh
1936.10 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards
1937 England: Aldershot 2 Div
1938.08 mechanised
1939 Aldershot 4 Div
1939.09 France & Belgium recce regt, 2 Inf Div, BEF
1940.06 UK 1 Armd Recce Bde
1940.12 UK 27 Armd Bde, 9 Armd Div
1940.12.30 cadre detached to form 22nd Dragoons
1944.02 UK 8 Armd Bde
1944.06 NW Europe
1945.05 Germany
1948 Libya
1952.11 England: Church Crookham
1954.06 Germany: Fallingbostel 7 Armd Div
1959.10 England: Catterick Tank training regt
1962.08 Germany: Münster 6 Bde
1965.08 Aden [Sqn in Sharjah]
1966.09 Northern Ireland: Omagh
1966 Cyprus [Sqn] UNFICYP
1968 Germany: Sennelager
1973 England: Tidworth 3 Div
1976.05 Germany: Minden BAOR
1977.12 (Northern Ireland)
1978.02 Germany: Minden BAOR
1981.04 England: Catterick RAC Training Regt
1983 Germany: Detmold 20 Armd Bde
1992.07.01 amalgamated with 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards, to form The Royal Dragoon Guards

[combined battle honours of 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards and 7th Dragoon Guards (Princess Royal's), with the following emblazoned:1]
Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde, Malplaquet, Dettingen, Warburg, Peninsula, South Africa 1846-7, Balaklava, Sevastopol, Tel-el-Kebir, Egypt 1882, South Africa 1900-02

The Great War: Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914, La Bassée 1914, Ypres 1914 '15, Somme 1916 '18, Cambrai 1917 '18, Amiens, Hindenburg Line, Pursuit to Mons

The Second World War: Dyle, Dunkirk 1940, Normandy Landing, Odon, Mont Pincon, Seine 1944, Nederrijn, Geilenkirchen, Roer, Rhineland, Cleve, Rhine, Bremen, North-West Europe 1940 '44-45

 

The Royal Dragoon Guards Museum, York (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)