The 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own) was a

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of the

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established in 1715. It saw service for three centuries including the

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and

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but then amalgamated with the

10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales' Own) The 10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own) was a cavalry regiment of the British Army raised in 1715. It saw service for three centuries including the First World War and Second World War but then amalgamated with the 11th Hussars (Prince ...

to form the Royal Hussars in 1969.

History

Formation to end 18th century

The regiment was formed at

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in July 1715 by Philip Honeywood as Honeywood's Regiment of Dragoons, one of 16 raised in response to the 1715 Jacobite rising. It fought in the Battle of Preston that ended the revolt in England and while many of these formations were disbanded in 1718, Honeywood's remained in being. In the

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, it took part in the December 1745

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, allegedly the last military engagement on English soil, as well as Culloden in April, often cited as the last pitched battle on British soil. After 1751, regiments were numbered, rather than being named after the current Colonel, and it became the 11th Regiment of Dragoons. When the

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broke out in 1756, the regiment took part in the 1758 raids on St Malo and

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. Attempting to divert French forces from

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, they failed to achieve this aim and the regiment was shipped to Germany in May 1760 as part of the

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's cavalry corps, winning its first battle honour in July at

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. It was also present in the Allied victory at Villinghausen in July 1761, which forced the French onto the defensive and ultimately led to the Treaty of Paris in 1763. In 1755, each dragoon regiment added a reconnaissance or 'light' troop; in February 1779, these were detached, that from the 11th helping form the 19th Light Dragoons, which in 1862 became the 19th Royal Hussars. While dragoons had previously been mounted infantry, as part of a tactical rethink, the 11th was re-designated in 1783 as 'light cavalry' and became the 11th Regiment of Light Dragoons. During the

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, two squadrons of the 11th Light Dragoons took part in the Duke of York's Low Countries campaign in 1793-95, including the action at Famars and the sieges of Valenciennes and Landrecies. It was also involved in the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland, including the October 1799 battles of Alkmaar and Castricum.Cannon, p. 32

The 19th century

With the exception of a short spell in

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in 1801, the regiment did not see active service again until it was sent to

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in April 1811, where it joined the

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campaign. In August, a ten-man piquet was surprised and captured at

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in Spain, an incident that may have given rise to the regiment's nickname, ''The Cherry Pickers'', which tradition associates with a mishap occurring in the vicinity of a cherry orchard. It fought at

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in April 1812 and the

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in July 1812 before returning to Britain. During the campaign of 1815, it was part of Vandeleur's 4th Cavalry Brigade, fighting at Quatre Bras and Waterloo. 11thhussars1884 GordonRelief

In 1819, the regiment moved to India, where it remained until 1836. Shortly before returning to Britain, the Earl of Cardigan became lieutenant-colonel; he embarked on a series of changes, which were intended to increase regimental prestige but resulted in a number of highly publicised disputes, including the so-called 'Black Bottle' affair. In 1840, it was named 11th (Prince Albert's Own) Hussars after Prince Albert,

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's consort, who became colonel of the regiment. Prince Albert's interests included military tactics and equipment and he helped design a new uniform for the regiment named after him. Purely by coincidence, this included "cherry" or crimson coloured trousers, unique among British regiments and worn ever since in most orders, except battledress and fatigues. The regiment served in the

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, as part of the Light Brigade commanded by Cardigan, now a Major General and fought at the Battle of Alma in September 1854. It was also involved in the Charge of the Light Brigade in October 1854; due to miscommunication, Cardigan led the brigade against unbroken and more numerous Russian forces and while able to withdraw to its starting position, it suffered heavy losses as a result. The 11th lost three officers and 55 men in the debacle, while Lieutenant Dunn was awarded the

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for rescuing two members of his troop. Edward Woodham of the 11th Hussars later acted as Chairman of the organising committee for the 21st Anniversary dinner held at Alexandra Palace for survivors of the Charge. The regiment was renamed the 11th (or Prince Albert's Own) Hussars in 1861. A detachment took part in the 1884 Nile Expedition and during the

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, it participated in the February 1900 Relief of Ladysmith. In 1911 Prince Albert's great-grandson Crown Prince Wilhelm of Prussia became colonel-in-chief of the regiment. He was removed in October 1914 following the outbreak of the First World War.

The First World War

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The regiment landed in France as part of the 1st Cavalry Brigade in the 1st Cavalry Division in August 1914 for service on the

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with the British Expeditionary Force. The regiment took part in the Great Retreat and the regiment, working with the

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, conducted a cavalry charge which led to the capture of eight guns at Néry in September 1914. In an action during the Battle of Messines in October 1914 a squadron from the regiment endured a heavy German bombardment that left many of its soldiers buried in a trench while another squadron from the regiment used a vantage point at the top of a building to train a

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on the Germans. At the Second Battle of Ypres in April 1915 the regiment, working with the Durham Light Infantry and

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, held the village of Hooge despite being under attack from the German forces using poison gas. In spring 1918 the commanding officer of the regiment Colonel Rowland Anderson led a bayonet assault at Sailly-Laurette which, taking the Germans by surprise, led to them being completely repulsed.

The inter-war years

The regiment was renamed the 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own) in 1921; it became the first British cavalry regiment to become mechanized in 1928 and it became involved in suppressing the Arab revolt in Palestine in 1936.

The Second World War

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The regiment, which had been located in

when the war started, deployed as part of the divisional troops of the 7th Armoured Division and conducted raids on Italian positions in Italian Libya using armoured cars during the Western Desert Campaign. It captured

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in June 1940 and, in an ambush east of Bardia, captured General Lastucci, the Engineer-in-Chief of the

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. Following the Italian invasion of Egypt in September 1940, the regiment took part in the British

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called

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, launched against Italian forces first in Egypt, then Libya. It was part of an ''ad hoc'' combat unit called

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, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel John Combe, that cut the retreating Tenth Army off and led to their surrender at the Battle of Beda Fomm in February 1941. The regiment fought at the Second Battle of El Alamein in October 1942. The regiment took part in the Allied invasion of Italy in September 1943 and, after the

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in June 1944, took part in the North-West Europe Campaign.

Post-war

The regiment was posted to Wavell Barracks in

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in 1945 and, after tours at various locations in

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including Jever, Delmenhorst, Osnabrück and Wesendorf, it returned home in March 1953. It deployed to Johor Bahru in Malaya in July 1953 during the Malayan Emergency. After returning home, it moved to

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in Carlisle as an Armoured Basic Training Unit in August 1956, then to Lisanelly Barracks in Omagh back into the armoured reconnaissance role in August 1959, and then deployed to Aden in November 1960 shortly before the Aden Emergency. It returned to England in November 1961 and then moved to Haig Barracks in Hohne in October 1962 where, after becoming the first regiment to use Chieftain tanks in regular service in 1967, it remained until returning home again in January 1969. The regiment was amalgamated with the 10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own), to form the Royal Hussars on 25 October 1969.

Regimental museum

The regimental collection is held by HorsePower: The Museum of the King's Royal Hussars which is based at Peninsula Barracks in Winchester.

Notable members

* James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan — leader of the Charge of the Light Brigade * Alexander Roberts Dunn — the first Canadian to win the

, for rescuing two soldiers during the Charge of the Light Brigade *

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— Racehorse trainer of 3 Grand National winners * John Ashley Kilvert — survivor of the Charge of the Light Brigade and later mayor of Wednesbury * David Margesson, 1st Viscount Margesson — British politician * Francis Newall, 2nd Baron Newall — British politician * William Henry Pennington — survivor of the Charge of the Light Brigade and later a Shakespearean actor * Nicholas Soames — British politician *

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* Sir Philip Frankland-Payne-Gallwey, 6th Baronet *

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— fictional anti-hero * Antony Beevor — writer * John Frederick Boyce Combe — World War II leader of Combe Force * Ted Dexter — England international cricketer and administrator

Battle honours

The battle honours of the regiment were as follows: * ''Early wars'': Warburg, Beaumont, Willems, Egypt, Salamanca, Peninsula, Waterloo, Bhurtpore, Alma, Balaklava, Inkerman, Sevastopol * ''The Great War'': Mons, Le Cateau,

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, Marne 1914,

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, Armentières 1914,

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'15, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde,

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'18, Flers-Courcelette,

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Scarpe 1917 The Battle of Arras (also known as the Second Battle of Arras) was a British offensive on the Western Front during the First World War. From 9 April to 16 May 1917, British troops attacked German defences near the French city of Arras on the W ...

, Cambrai 1917 '18, St. Quentin, Rosières, Amiens,

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, Hindenburg Line, St. Quentin Canal, Beaurevoir, Selle,

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* ''The Second World War'': Egyptian Frontier 1940, Withdrawal to Matruh, Bir Emba, Sidi Barrani, Buq Buq, Bardia 1941, Capture of Tobruk, Beda Fomm, Halfaya 1941, Sidi Suleiman, Tobruk 1941, Gubi I II, Gabr Saleh, Sidi Rezegh 1941, Taieb el Essem,

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, Saunnu, Msus, Defence of Alamein Line, Alam el Halfa, El Alamein, Advance on Tripoli, Enfidaville, Tunis, North Africa 1940–43, Capture of Naples, Volturno Crossing, Italy 1943, Villers Bocage, Bourguébus Ridge, Mont Pinçon, Jurques, Dives Crossing, La Vie Crossing, Lisieux, Le Touques Crossing, Risle Crossing, Roer, Rhine, Ibbenburen, Aller,

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Commanding Officers

The Commanding Officers have been: *1958–1961: Lt.-Col. J. Anthony N. Crankshaw *1961–1963: Lt.-Col. Philip D.S. Lauder *1963–1965: Lt.-Col. Richard D. Sutton *1965–1966: Lt.-Col. Thomas A. Hall *1966–1968: Lt.-Col. Peter M. Hamer *1968–1969: Lt.-Col. Clive H. Robertson

Colonels—with other names for the regiment

The colonels of the regiment were as follows (the Kerr family provided the colonels for two-thirds of the regiment's first century): * 1715 Philip Honywood —Honywood's or Honeywood's Regiment of Dragoons * 1732 Lord Mark Kerr — Kerr's Regiment of Dragoons ;11th Regiment of Dragoons (1751) A royal warrant provided that in future regiments would not be known by their colonels' names, but by their "number or rank" on 1 July 1751 * 1752 William, Marquess of Lothian * 1775 James Johnston ; 11th Regiment of Light Dragoons (1783) * 1785

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* 1787 Joseph, Lord Dover KB * 1789 Studholme Hodgson * 1798 William, Marquess of Lothian KT * 1813 Lord William Bentinck GCB GCH * 1839 Gen. Lord Charles Henry Somerset Manners, KCB * 1839 Lt-Gen. Philip Philpot ;11th (Prince Albert's Own) Hussars (1840) * 1840 F.M. Francis Albert Augustus Charles Emmanuel, Duke of Saxony, Prince of Saxe-Coburg (The Prince Consort), KG, KT, KP, GCB, GCMG, KSI * 1842 Gen. Sir Arthur Benjamin Clifton, GCB, KCH * 1842 Gen. Charles Murray Cathcart, 2nd Earl Cathcart (Lord Greenock), GCB * 1847 Gen. Sir Henry Wyndham, KCB * 1860 Lt-Gen.

James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan Lieutenant-General James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, (16 October 1797 – 28 March 1868), styled as Lord Cardigan, was an officer in the British Army who commanded the Light Brigade during the Crimean War, leading its charge ...

, KCB ;11th (or Prince Albert's Own) Hussars (1861) * 1868 Gen. George William Key * 1871 Gen. Charles Hagart, CB * 1873 Gen. Sir Archibald Little, GCB * 1875 Gen. William Neville Custance, CB * 1886 Gen.

William Charles Forrest General William Charles Forrest (22 March 1819 – 1 April 1902) was a senior officer in the British Army. Forrest was born in London, the second son of Lieutenant-Colonel William Forrest of the Bengal Army, and his wife, Georgiana Christina Car ...

, CB * 1902 Lt-Gen. Sir

Arthur Lyttelton-Annesley Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Lyttelton-Annesley (2 September 1837 – 16 February 1926) was a British Army officer who became Commander-in-Chief, Scotland. Military career Educated at Harrow School, Lyttelton-Annesley was commissioned in ...

, KCB, KCVO ;11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own) (1921) * 1926 Maj-Gen.

Thomas Tait Pitman Major-General Thomas Tait Pitman, (22 December 1868 – 8 March 1941) was a British cavalry officer, who was a general officer during the First World War. Personal life Thomas Tait Pitman was born on 22 December 1868, the son of Frederick Pitm ...

, CB, CMG * 1939 Brig-Gen. Sir Archibald Fraser Home, KCVO, CB, CMG, DSO * 1945 Maj-Gen. John Frederick Boyce Combe, CB, DSO * 1957 Col. Adam Trevor Smail, DSO * 1965–1969 Col. Sir John Charles Arthur Digby Lawson, Bt, DSO, MC (to

The Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own) The Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own) was a cavalry regiment of the British Army. It was formed by the amalgamation of the 10th Royal Hussars and the 11th Hussars in 1969 and it amalgamated with the 14th/20th King's Hussars to form the King's ...

* ''1969 Regiment amalgamated with 10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own) to form

References

Sources

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External links

War diaries of the 11th Hussars
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