1650 - - - Regiment of Cuirassiers

raised in Parliamentary Army at Newcastle and County Durham

1660 - - - The Royal Regiment

transferred to King's service

1660 (dec) - - - disbanded

1661 - - - The Royal Regiment of Horse, or Horse Guards

reformed on creation of British Regular Army, ranked as 1st Horse, also known as Oxford Blues.

1746 - - - removed from Horse establishment and given independent status ( and 2nd - 4th Horse re ranked as 1st - 3rd Dragoon Guards)

1750 - - - Royal Horse Guards Blue

1819 - - - Royal Regiment of Horse Guards (The Blues)

1827 - - - placed on same footing as !st and 2nd Life Guards, ranked as 3rd

1877 - - - Royal Horse Guards (The Blues)

1918 - - - 3rd (Royal Horse Guards) Battalion, Guards Machine Gun Regiment

1919 - - - Royal Horse Guards

1969 - - - amalgamated with The Royal Dragoons (1st Dragoons) to form the Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons)

Battle Honours WW1

The Great War: Mons2, Le Cateau1, Retreat from Mons1, Marne 19141, Aisne 19141, Messines 19141, Armentières 19141, Ypres 1914 '15 '17, Langemarck 1914, Gheluvelt, Nonne Bosschen, St Julien, Frezenberg, Loos, Arras 1917, Scarpe 1917, Broodseinde2, Poelcappelle2, Passchendaele2, Hindenburg Line, Cambrai 1918, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18

Battle Honours WW2

The Second World War3: Mont Pincon, Souleuvre, Noireau Crossing, Amiens 1944, Brussels, Neerpelt, Nederrijn, Nijmegen, Lingen, Bentheim, North-West Europe 1944-45, Baghdad 1941, Iraq 1941, Palmyra, Syria 1941, El Alamein, North Africa 1942-43, Arezzo, Advance to Florence, Gothic Line, Italy 1944

1. awarded for services of the Household Cavalry Composite Regiment.
2. awarded for services of the Household Battalion.
3. awarded jointly to The Life Guards and Royal Horse Guards, for services of Household Cavalry Regiment.


The Household Cavalry Museum, Windsor (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)

Deployment

1650 Regiment of Cuirassiers
raised in Parliamentary Army
1650 England
1660.07 The Royal Regiment
transferred to the King's service
1660 England
1660.12 disbanded at Bath
1661.01.06 Royal Regiment of Horse
re-formed (ranked as 1st Horse)
1661 England
1685 Monmouth rebellion
1685 England
1689 Ireland: Jacobite war
1690 Britain
1698 Britain
1702 Britain
1714 Britain
1742 Flanders
1748 Britain
1750 Royal Horse Guards Blue
1759 Germany
1763? England: Nottingham, Derby, Northampton
<1788> England: London
1794 Flanders (4 troops)
1795 Hanover
1796 England
1802 England: London
1803 England: London
1812.11.10 at sea (embarked at Portsmouth) (det)
1812.11.23 Portugal: Lisbon (det) Household Cav Bde
1812 Peninsular war (det)
1814 augmented by more sqns from England
1814 Peninsular war
1814 France
1814.07.23 at sea (embarked at Boulogne )
1814.07.25 Engand: Dover
1814 London
1815.05.02 at sea (embarked at Ramsgate) (2 sqns)
1815.05. Belgium: Ostend
1815.06 Waterloo campaign (2 sqns) 1st Cav Bde
1815.07. France: Paris Army of Occupation
1816.01.31 at sea (embarked at Calais)
1816.02.01 England: Dover & Ramsgate
1816.02. London
1877 Royal Horse Guards (The Blues)
<1881> London: Hyde Park
1882 with 1st Life Guards, and 2nd Life Guards, formed Household Cavalry Composite Regiment for Egyptian campaign
1882 London: Regents Park
1899.11.29 at sea
1899.12 South Africa
1900.11.28 England
1900.11 London
<1904> London: Regents Park
<1912> London: Hyde Park
1914 England: Windsor
1914.09 France and Flanders 7 Cav Bde, 3 Cav Div, BEF
1914.11 France and Flanders 8 Cav Bde, 3 Cav Div, BEF
1917.11 France and Flanders 7 Cav Bde, 3 Cav Div, BEF
1918.06.27 3rd (Royal Horse Guards) Battalion, Guards Machine Gun Regiment
converted to motor machine gun role (less one sqn)
1918.03 France and Flanders 1st Army, BEF
1919.02.10 Royal Horse Guards
reorganised as cavalry
1919 London
1935 London 3 Div
1937 London
1939.09.01 amalgamated with The Life Guards, to form Household Cavalry Regiment
1945.07 Royal Horse Guards
re-formed
1945 Germany
1948 Germany [Sqn-Berlin] BAOR
1952.03 England: Windsor
1956.03 (Cyprus)
1959 England: Windsor
1962.10 Germany: Herford recce
1966.05 England: Windsor
196? [Sqns-Cyprus & Singapore]
196? England: Windsor
1968.01 Germany: Detmold 20 Armd Bde
1969.03.23 amalgamated at Detmold with The Royal Dragoons (1st Dragoons), to form
The Blues and Royal (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons)