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Aldershot.
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Full Half
Pay. Pay.
7th (The Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards.
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In the centre the Coronet ot H.M. the Empress and Queen Frederick of Germany and Prussia as
Princess Royal of Great Britain and Ireland.
Blenheim" " Rahillies" "Oudenarde" " Malplaquet " " Detiingen" " South Aprica, 1846-7"
"Egypt, 1882 " " Tel-el-Kebie."
Colonel.— Andrew Nugent, 1 Cornet,* 17 Dec. 52; Lieut. P24 Nov. 54; Captain, *S Feb. 56; Major, 31 Mar. 66;
Lt. Colonel, p 3 Feb. 69 ; Colonel, 3 Feb. 74 ; Major General, 19 Feb. 85 ; Lt. General, 13 Nov. 86; ColoneV
7 Dragoon Guards, 30 Apr. 92.
Lieutenant Colonel. — William Henry Muir Lowe, 9 Lieut. 22 Oct. 81; Capt. 9 Mar. 87; Major, 2 Mar. 92;.
Lt.Col. 19 Sept. 99.
2'-7,
Majobs.
p.s.c. Charles William Thompson, 10 ?nd~\
in Command 19 Sept. 99 ; Special Sercive, >
South Africa )
John Weston Parsons Peters, 13 Deputy')
Assist. Adj. Gen. .Remouni 'Est. 29 Apr. 96 $
Robert Cooper, Uganda Rifles
Bernard Russel Dietz
2W LIEUT.
Captains.
George Langworthy, Aide de Camp to*)
Major General H. F. Grant 13 Oct. 98 $
Cecil William Battine
William Daniel M'Swiney
Henry Anderson Lempriere, Brigade ~)
Major, Aldershot, 6 Nov. 99 (temp.) ... )
John Edwd. Frederick Dyer, Adjutant )
7 Nov. 99 S
John Sanders Cayzer, Signalling Officer ~)
Natal Field Force S
Richard Sparrow, Remount Dept. Lines \
of Commn. S. Africa' )
Moreton Foley Gage, 14 Uganda Rifles
Christopher Goddard Jackson
Lieutenants.
Richd. Griffith Oliver Bramston-Newman
Noel Dawson Henry Campbell
William Reginald Haldane Jenkins
Wickham Frith Chappell
William Stobart Whetherly
Roland Haig
Second Lieutenant.
Gerald Fitzgerald Dunne
12 Mar.
5 Oct.
5 Aug.
20 Feb.
S Sept.
7 May
3 Aug.
14 Nov.
CAPTAIN.
28 Jan. 82, 9 Mar. 87
4 May 87
4 May 87
28 Nov. 88
14 Mar
28 June 90
10 Oct. 91
12 Mar. 92
92
92
5 July 99
9 May S 5
29 Aug. 85
30 Jan. 86
6 Nov. 89 28 Oct.
26 Feb.
20 Nov.
23 Dec.
2 Mar.
9 Nov.
8 May
15 Apr.
29 Apr.
31 Mar. 91
1 Apr.
29 Apr.
21 Mar.
9 Jan.
9 Jan.
13 Oct.
7 Dec.
1 5 Apr.
9 Oct,
14 Oct
• 99
BEEV.MAJ.
21 Mar. 97
24 Nov. 9.7
19 July 99
19 Sept. 99.
9 June 97
23 Feb. 98
7 Dec. 98
3 June 99
3 June 99
24 Mar. 97
ls Major Peters served with the Chin-Lushaii
Expeditionary Force in 188S-89 on special service
with Brigadier-General Tregear's Column (Medal
with Clasp). Served with the Expedition to the
Black Mountain in 1891 as Superintendent of
Signalling (Clasp).
Biding Master.— Harry Richard James Willis, 13 March 80 ; Hon. Captain, 13 March 90.
Quarter Master. — Frederick Charles Butcher, 26 Oct. 95 ; Hon. Lieut,
Scarlet— -PWtt^Black.—^enrs, Messrs. Cox and Co.
Returnedfrom Egypt, I0 2fov. 94.
1 Lt.General Nugent served in the Eastern campaign of 1854-55 with the Scots Greys, including thebattles-
of Balaklava, Inkerman, and Tchernaya, siege and fall of Sebastopol (Medal with three Clasps, and Turkish
Medal).
' Lt.Col. Lowe served with the 7th Dragoon Guards in the Egyptian war of 1882, and was present in the engage-
ments of El Magfar and Mahsama, in the action at Kassasin on the 28th August, and at the battle of Tel-el-Kebir
and the capture of Cairo (Medal with Clasp, and Khedive's Star). Served with the Burmese Expeditionin 1886-89
on special service (Medal with two Clasps).
10 Major Thompson served with the 7thDragoon Guards in theEgyptian war of 1882, 2nd was presentin the two
actions at Kassasin, and at the battle of Tel-el-Kebir and the capture of Cairo (Medal with Clasp, and Khedive's-
Star).
14 Captain Gage served in the operations in Uganda in 1897-98, and was slightly wounded at the capture of the
Soudanese Forts near Mruli (mentioned in despatches, Medal with Clasp).
Record of the Services of the "]th (Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards.
Raised in 1688 as the " 10th Horse, or Devonshire's Regiment." To Ireland, 1689. To the Netherlands as
" Schomberg's Horse," 1691. To England, 1698. To Holland, 1702 (battles of Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde,
and Malplaquet). To Ireland, 1714. Entitled "Ligonier's Horse," 1720. To Germany, 1742 (battle of Dettingen).
To England, 1745. Entitled "4th Irish Horse, or The Black Horse," 1746. To Ireland, 1747. To Germany, 1760.
To Ireland, 1763. Entitled " 7th Dragoon Guards (The Princess Royal's Regiment)," 1788. To England, 1799. To
Ireland, 1814. To Scotland, 1820. To England, 1822. To the Cape, 1846 (first Kafir war). To England, 1847.
To India, 1857. To England, 1868. To Ireland, 1872. To England, 1878. To Egypt, 188? (actions at Kassasin .
and battle of Tel-el-Kebir). To India, 1883. To Egypt, 1893. To England, 1894.

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