| Badge | |
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| Nicknames | |
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The Trades Union The KDGs Bland's Horse |
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| Motto | |
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Honi soit qui mal y pense Evil be to him who evil thinks |
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| Regimental Marches | |
| The Radetsky March (Quick) J. Strauss |
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| The King's Dragoon Guards (Slow) Mercadante |
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| Regimental Anniversary | |
| Waterloo Day 18th June | |
| Depot | |
| Dunbar | |
| Colonels | |
| 1746 - 1959 | |
| Lieutenant Colonels | |
| 1746 - 1959 | |
| Soldiers | |
| 1746 - 1959 | |
| Uniforms | |
| 1746 - 1959 | |
| Battle Honours | |
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| Predecessor Units | |
| The Queen's Regiment of Horse (1685 - 1714) The King's Own Regiment of Horse (1714 - 1746) |
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| Successor Units | |
| 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards (1959 - ) |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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A History of the King's Dragoon Guards, 1938 - 1945 by McCouquodale, Hutchings and Woozley (Regiment: 1950) A Short History of the King's Dragoon Guards, 1685 - 1929 (Gale & Polden: 1929) Historical Records of the First or King's Regiment of Dragoon Guards, 1685 to 1836 (London: Clowes: 1837) |
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| Regimental Museum | |
| Cardiff Castle, Cardiff, South Glamorgan |
