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1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards began its formal existence on January 1st 1959, this being the day when the 1st King’s Dragoon Guards was amalgamated with the 2nd Dragoon Guards, better known as the Queen’s Bays. Thus ended the separate identities of two of the oldest and most distinguished regiments in the British Army.
Yet this new Regiment emerged like a phoenix; naturally it was fully equipped militarily from the moment of its birth, but it also inherited intact the less tangible, and equally vital, martial qualities which can only be painstakingly acquired through generations of experience in peace and war.
The Royal WelshA Regiment is much about people and their character, character that has been influenced by fear, loyalty and bravery, fashioned and hardened by war.
St David’s Day 2006 saw the formation of a new Regiment - The Royal Welsh - that unites the regular, reserve and cadet infantry battalions of The Royal Welch Fusiliers and The Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st Foot) in the principality of Wales. These parent regiments have a history and heritage that goes back over three hundred years.
They were first mustered within days of each other in March 1689, when King William III, in a single commission parchment, charged Lord Herbert of Chirbury and Sir Edward Dering to each raise a regiment of foot for service in Ireland. Since those early days, these regiments have participated in many significant events in British history.
