The Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons)
Badge of the regiment
Active
29 March 1969–present
Country
United Kingdom
Branch
British Army
Type
Horse guards
Role
Armoured reconnaissance and ceremonial
Size
Regiment
Part of
Household Cavalry
Garrison/HQ
RHQ – London Regiment – Windsor/London
Motto(s)
Honi soit qui mal y pense (Middle French for "Shame on anyone who thinks evil of it")[1]
March
Quick – "Quick March of the Blues and Royals" Slow – "Slow March of the Blues and Royals" Trot Past – "Keel Row"
Engagements
Falklands War
Mount Kent Skirmish
Battle honours
Pre-First World War:
Tangier 1662–1680
Dettingen
Warburg
Beaumont
Willems
Fuentes d'Onor
Peninsula
Waterloo
Balaclava
Sevastopol
Tel el Kebir
Egypt 1882
Relief of Ladysmith
South Africa 1899–1902
First World War:
Mons
Le Cateau
Retreat from Mons
Marne 1914
Aisne 1914
Messines 1914
Armentières 1914
Ypres 1914
Langemarck 1914
Gheluvelt
Nonne Bosschen
St Julien
Ypres 1915
Frezenberg, Loos
Arras 1917
Scarpe 1917
Ypres 1917
Broodseinde
Poelcappelle
Passchendaele
Somme 1918
St Quentin
Avre
Amiens
Hindenburg Line, Beaurevoir
Cambrai 1918, Sambre
Pursuit to Mons
France and Flanders 1914–18
Second World War:
Mont Pincon
Souleuvre
Noireau Crossing
Amiens 1944
Brussels
Neerpelt
Nederrijn
Lingen
Veghel
Nijmegen
Rhine
Bentheim
North-West Europe 1944–1945
Baghdad 1941
Iraq 1941
Palmyra
Syria 1941
Msus
Gazala
Knightsbridge
Defence of Alamein Line
El Alamein
El Agheila
Advance on Tripoli
North Africa 1941–43
Sicily 1943
Arezzo
Advance to Florence
Gothic Line
Italy 1943–44
Post-Second World War
Falkland Islands 1982
Iraq 2003
Commanders
Colonel-in-Chief
The King
Colonel of the Regiment
The Princess Royal
Insignia
Tactical Recognition Flash
Arm Badge
Waterloo Eagle (from 1st The Royal Dragoons)
Abbreviation
RHG/D
Military unit
The Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons) (RHG/D) is a cavalry regiment of the British Army, part of the Household Cavalry. The Colonel of the Regiment is Anne, Princess Royal. It is the second-most senior regiment in the British Army.
^"Honi soit qui mal y pense - French expressions analyzed and explained". About Education. About.com. Archived from the original on 22 July 2015. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
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