1922 - - - Formed by amalgamation of 1st Life Guards and 2nd Life Guards.

1939 - - - The regiment ceased to function in order to form Household Cavalry Composite Regiment and Household Cavalry Training Regiment.

1945 - - - regiment reconstituted at disbandment of 1st Household Cavalry Regiment and 2nd Household Cavalry Regiment.

1992 - - - amalgamated with The Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons) to form Household Calvalry Regiment, with squadrons retaining former regimental identities.

 

Battle Honours WW1

Ypres, Mons, Somme, Arras, Messines, Le Cateau, Marne, Flanders, Aisne, Hindenberg Line,

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

Wadi al Batin, Gulf 1991, Al Basrah, Iraq 20033

 

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

Deployment

1922.05.21 Life Guards
formed by amalgamation of 1st Life Guards, and 2nd Life Guards
1922 London
1931 London 3 Div
1933 London
1939.09.01 amalgamated with Royal Horse Guards, to form Household Cavalry Regiment
1945.07 Life Guards
re-formed
1945 Middle East
1948.05 England: Windsor (TA )
1952.03 Germany: Wolfenbüttel 11 Armd Div (recce)
1954.01 Egypt
1955.07 (Sqn in Cyprus)
1955.10 Egypt
1956.04 England: Windsor
1957.09 Aden
195? [Sqn Cyprus, Sqn Oman]
195? Aden
1960.01 Germany: Herford recce
1962.10 England: Windsor
[Sqn-Cyprus]
196? England: Windsor
1966.05 Hong Kong
196? [Sqns -Borneo, Malaya]
196? Hong Kong
1968.11 England: Windsor
1971.09 Germany: Detmold 20 Armd Bde
1972.07 (Northern Ireland)
1972.12 Germany: Detmold 20 Armd Bde
1974.05 (Northern Ireland)
1974.09 Germany: Detmold 20 Armd Bde
1975.10 England: Windsor 16 Para Bde (recce)
1980.02 Germany: Detmold 4 Armd Div
1981.01 Germany: Detmold 20th Armd Bde
1984.01 England: Windsor 5 Abn Bde (recce)
1990.01 Germany: Detmold 20th Armd Bde
1992.10.19 amalgamated with The Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons), to form Household Cavalry Regiment