MILITARY ART OF THE 4TH ROYAL IRISH DRAGOON GUARDS AND HISTORICAL ART PRINTS OF THE 7TH DRAGOON GUARDS (PRINCES ROYAL'S) [ 4th Royal Irish ] [ 7th Dragoon Guards ] 4TH ROYAL IRISH DRAGOON GUARDS  Raised in 1685 as the 6th Horse or the Earl of Arran's Cuirassiers. becoming in 1788 the 4th Royal Irish regiment of Dragoon Guards. The Battle Honours  (on standard) 1808 - 1814 The Peninusla War 1854 - 1855   At Balaclava, Sebastopol during the Crimean War 1882   at Tel el Kibir during the Arab Pasha revolt. 1882 - 1884   in Egypt during the fist Sudan Campaign 1914 - 1918  Mons, le Cateau, retreat from Mons, Marne, Aisne Msessines, Ypres, Somme, Cambrai, and Pursuit to Mons during the First World War Victoria Cross Awards  Captain A Carton de Wiart awarded the Victoria Cross at La Boiselle, France 2 and 3rd of July 1916. 7TH DRAGOON GUARDS (PRINCESS ROYAL'S)  Raised in 1688 as the Earl of Devonshire's Horse or 10th horse, but changed names in 1788 to the 7th (the Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards. Battle Honours (shown on standard) 1701 - 1715, Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde, Malplaquet during the War of the Spanish Sucession 1740 - 1748  Dettingen during the War of the Austrian Succession 1756 - 1763  at Warbung during the Seven years war 1846 - 1847  Seventh Kaffir War 1882   Tel El Kibir during the revolt of the Arabi Pasha 1882 - 1884   in Egypt during the first Sudan Campaign 1899 - 1902  Boer war 1914 - 1918  La Bassee  Givenchy, Somme, Bazentin, cambrai, St Quentin, Avre, Amiens, Hindenburg Line, Pursuit to Mons. Both of the above Regiments were amalgamated in 1922, to become the 4th / 7th Dragoon Guards. and became Royal in 1936 Battle honours during World War Two  Dyle, Dunkirk 1940, Normandy landing, Odon, Mont Pincon, Nederrijn, Geilenkirchen, Rhineland, Cleve, Rhine.

 

The Dragoon Guards by Michael Angelo Hayes  Showing 1st Kings Dragoon Guards, 2nd Dragoon Guards ( the Queens Bays), Royal Scots Greys ( 2nd Dragoons ), Prince of Waless Dragoon Guards, 3rd Carabiniers, 6th Dragoon Guards, 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards, Princess Royals 7th Dragoon Guards, Princess Charlotte of Waless 5th Dragoon Guards and the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons. David and Goliath, Vernon, France, 27th August 1944 by David Pentland.  Leading 30th Corps assault across the Seine at Vernon, 43rd Wessex Division gained an initial foothold on the east bank.  Heroic efforts however by the Royal Engineers of 71st, 72nd and 73rd Field Companies, succeeded in constructing a Class 9 Bailey bridge (David, shown left) and a Second Class 40 bridge (Goliath, shown right).  Despite constant enemy fire this amazing feat was achieved in only 2 days, and allowed 15/19th Hussars Cromwells and 4th/7th Dragoons Guards Shermans to cross just in time to repulse a serious German counter attack by Tiger IIs of SS Panzer Abteilung 101.