Uniform, Blue.
Collar, Scarlet.
Head-dress, Busby with white plume and garter-blue busby bag.
Horse plume, White. Leopard skin saddlecloth.
Forage cap, Red.
Linked Regiment, 7th (Queen's Own) Hussars.
Special arm badge for Sergeants, White Horse of Hanover.
The regiment has an additional sergeant as kettle-drummer who, on ceremonial occasions, wears a silver collar which was presented by the wife of the Hon. Charles Fitzroy, afterwards Lord Southampton, on his being appointed colonel in 1772.
3rd (King's Own) HUSSARS
The 3rd Hussars, raised in 1685, was styled the "Queen Consort's Regiment of Dragoons." On the accession of George I it was called the "King's Own Dragoons." In 1861 the regiment became "Hussars." It was nicknamed "Lord Adam Gordon's Life Guards," from that officer detaining it for such a long period in Scotland when he commanded there.