THIRD HUSSARS.
| Titles. | Colour of | Campaigns, Battles, &c. | ||
| Uniform. | Facings. | |||
| The Queen Consort’s Regiment of Dragoons. 1685–1714 The King’s Own Regiment of Dragoons. 1714–1751 3rd, or King’s Own Dragoons. 1751–1818 3rd, or King’s Own Light Dragoons. 1818–1861 3rd King’s Own Hussars. 1861—— | Scarlet, 1685–1818. Blue, 1818–1830. Scarlet, 1830–1842. Blue, 1842—. | Blue, 1685–1818. Scarlet, 1818—. | Boyne, 1690. Aughrim, 1691. Flanders, 1694–1697. Almanza, 1707. Spain, 1706–1708. Dettingen, 1743. Fontenoy, 1745. Flanders, 1742–1745. Llereena, 1812. Salamanca, 1812. | Vittoria, 1813. Toulouse, 1814. Peninsula, 1811–1814. Cabool, 1842. Moodkee, 1845. Ferozeshah, 1845. Sobraon, 1846. Punjaub, 1848–1849. Chillianwallah, 1849. Goojerat, 1849. |
The Regiment was chiefly raised in Berkshire, Mid=dlesex, Hertfordshire and Essex.
It received its Title on its formation in honour of the Queen Consort.
It bears the White Horse within the Garter and the motto “Nec aspera terrent.”
It was nicknamed “Lord Adam Gordon’s Life Guards” from that officer detaining it so long in Scotland when he commanded there.