| Photographs of the 11th Hussars, during
the reign of Queen Victoria.
11TH HUSSARS (PRINCE ALBERT'S OWN)
Raised in 1715 as Honywood's dragoons and in 1751 becoming the 11th Dragoons,
and changing again 1840 to the 11th Hussars.
Battle Honours.
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1756 - 1763 Warbung during the Seven years War |
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1793 - 1802, Beaumont, Willems during the French Revolution |
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1808 -1814, Salamanca, during the Peninsula war |
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1815, Battle of waterloo |
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1826 revolt of Rajah of Bhurtpore |
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1854 - 1855
Alam, Balaclava, Inkerman, Sebastopol during the Crimean
war |
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1914 - 1918 Le
Cateaux, Retreat from Mons, marne 1914, Aisne 1914 Messines
1914, Ypres 1914,
1915,
Somme 1916, 1918, Cambrai 1917, 1918 Amiens |
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1939 - 1945 Villers
Bocage, Roer, Rhine, Egyptian Frontier 1940,
Sidi Barrani, Beda Fomm, Sidi Rezegh,
1941, El Alamein, during the second World War |
VICTORIA CROSS AWARDS.
One Victoria Cross awarded during the Crimean war, at Balaclava by Ltd
A R Drum, Later Colonel., (1833 - 1863)
ALEXANDER
ROBERT DUNN (Lieutenant, afterwards Lieut.
-Colonel) 11th Hussars
On October 25th 1854 during the charge of the Light
Cavalry at Balaklava, Lieutenant Dunn saved the life of Private Bentley
by riding at, and cutting down, some Russians who were attacking him
from the rear. Later on he
saw Private Levett hard pressed by a Russian Hussar, and rode to his
assistance, cutting down his assailant.
In 1858 Lieut.–Colonel Dunn raised and
commanded the 100th Royal Canadian Regiment, now 1st
Batt. Leinster. He served
in the Abyssinian War of 1868 as Lieut. –Colonel of the 33rd
Regiment, and lost his life during one of the hard fought actions of
that year.
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Regimental Quartermaster-General of the 11th Hussars
(1898) |
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