It received its title in 1830 in honour of Queen Adelaid=e.
It bears the “Royal Cypher within the Garter.”
TENTH HUSSARS.
| Titles. | Colour of | Campaigns, Battles, &c. | ||
| Uniform. | Facings. | |||
| Colonel Humphrey Gore’s Regiment of Dragoons. 1715–1723 (Its Colonel’s name.) 1723–1751 10th Dragoons. 1751–1783 10th, or Prince of Wale’s Own Light Dragoons. 1783–1806 10th, or Prince of Wales’s Own Hussars. 1806–1811 10th, The Prince of Wales’s Own Royal Hussars. 1811—— | Scarlet, 1715–1783. Blue, 1783—. | Yellow, 1715–1811. Scarlet, 1811–1819. Blue, 1819—. | Minden, 1759. Warbourg, 1760. Campen, 1760. Wilhelmstahl, 1762. Germany, 1758–1763. Sahagun, 1808. Benevente, 1809. | Corunna, 1809. Morales, 1813. Peninsula, 1808–1809. Do., 1813–1814. Waterloo, 1815. Sevastopol, 1855. |
The Regiment was raised in Hertfordshire and adjoining counties.
It received its title and badges of the Prince’s Plume, the Rising Sun, and the Red Dragon, in 1783, in honour of the Prince of Wales.
ELEVENTH HUSSARS.
| Titles. | Colour of | Campaigns, 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.