This grey had been the drumhorse of the King’s Dragoon Guards since 1904 and is shown in this photo, from the National Army Museum collection, at a time when the regiment was serving in India. The Victorian drum banners are shown clearly so that the five battle honours on this side of the royal arms can be seen, in descending order: BLENHEIM, RAMILLIES, SEVASTOPOL, TAKU FORTS and PEKIN. The honour for WATERLOO was given pride of place below the royal arms. On the other side were OUDENARDE, MALPLAQUET, DETTINGEN and SOUTH AFRICA 1879. This last honour was split up, with SOUTH appearing on one scroll and AFRICA 1879 on another so that there could be five scrolls on each side of the royal arms. The battle honour SOUTH AFRICA 1901-2 had not been added at this time, nor the honours for BEAUMONT and WARBURG which were granted retrospectively in 1909.
