SIXTH DRAGOON GUARDS.
| Titles. | Colour of | Campaigns, Battles, &c. | ||
| Uniform. | Facings. | |||
| The Queen Dowager’s Regiment of Horse. 1685–1690 (Its Colonel’s name.) 1690–1692 The King’s Carabiniers. 1692–1788 6th Dragoon Guards, or Carabiniers. 1788—— | Scarlet, 1685–1853. Blue, 1853—. | Sea-Green, 1685–1715. Yellow, 1715–1768. White, 1768—. | Boyne, 1690. Aughrim, 1691. Steenkirk, 1692. Neer Landen, 1693. Flanders, 1692–1697. Schellenberg, 1704. Blenheim, 1704. Neer Hespen, 1705. Ramilies, 1706. Oudenarde, 1708. Malplaquet, 1709. Douay, 1710. | Germany, 1702–1714. Warbourg, 1760. Wilhelmstahl, 1762. Germany, 1760–1763. Tournay, 1794. Flanders, 1793–1795. Buenos-Ayres, 1806. Monte-Vid=eo, 1807. Sevastopol, 1855. Delhi, 1857. Indian Mutiny, 1857–1858. |
The Regiment was formed from Independent Troops of Horse raised in various English counties.
It wore cuirasses till 1699, and from 1707 to 1714.
It received its title and facings on its formation in honour of Queen Catherine, (wife of King Charles II.), whose favourite colour was sea-green.
It received its title in 1692 from being armed with long pistols called “Carabines,” and for its gallantry in Ireland in 1690–91.
It was known at one time as “the first Regiment of Carabiniers,” and has been nicknamed “Tichborne’s Own” since the famous trial of Arthur Orton, Sir Roger Tichborne having served in the Regiment.
It captured the colour of “the Royal Regiment of Bombardiers” at the battle of Ramilica, and its gallantry at the battle of Neer Landen pleased the King so greatly that he presented it with his charger.