ELEVENTH HUSSARS.

Titles.Colour ofCampaigns, Battles, &c.
Uniform.Facings.
Colonel Philip Honeywood’s Regiment of Dragoons. 1715–1732
(Its Colonel’s name.) 1732–1751
11th Dragoons. 1751–1783
11th Light Dragoons. 1783–1840
11th, Prince Albert’s Own Hussars. 1840——		Scarlet, 1715–1784.
Blue, 1784–1830.
Scarlet, 1830–1840.
Blue, 1840—.		Buff, 1715–1840.
Blue, 1840—.		Warbourg, 1760.
Wilhelmstahl, 1762.
Germany, 1760–1763.
Famars, 1793.
Valenciennes, 1793.
Cateau, 1794.
Villers-en-Couché, 1794.
Tournay, 1794.
Guildermalsen, 1795.
Flanders, 1793–1795.
Bergen, 1799.
Egmont-op-Zee, 1799.
Alkmaer, 1799.
Aboukir, 1801.		Mandora, 1801.
Alexandria, 1801.
Egypt, 1801.
El-Bodon, 1811.
Salamanca, 1812.
Burgos, 1812. Peninsula, 1811–1813.
Quatre Bras, 1815.
Waterloo, 1815.
Netherlands, 1815.
Bhurtpore, 1826.
Alma, 1854.
Balaklava, 1854.
Inkerman, 1854.

The Regiment was raised in Essex and adjoining counties.

It received its title in 1840 in honour of having formed Prince Albert’s escort from Dover to Canterbury, on his arrival in England to be married to Her Majesty.

It is said= to have borne the motto “Motus componere” when raised.

It bears “the Sphinx” for Egypt 1801.

It was nicknamed “the Cherry Pickers” from some of the men being taken prisoners in a fruit garden during the Peninsula war; also “the Cherubims” from its crimson overalls.