Name : 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys) Started : 1877 Ended : 1921 Previous Regiment Lineage(s) : ---------------------------------------- Royal Regiment of Scots Dragoons (1681 - 1694) 4th Dragoons (1694 - 1707) Royal North British Dragoons (1707 - 1713) 2nd Dragoons (1713 - 1877)
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Subsequent Regiment Lineage : ---------------------------------------- Royal Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons) (1921 - 1971) Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys) (1971 - Present)
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Raised in 1678, under the name of Royal regiment of Scots Dragoons, changed to 2nd Royal North British Dragoons in 1751. The regiment took part in many campaigns. In 1701 to 1705 in the war of the Spanish Succession, at the battles of Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde and Malplaquet and at Dettingen during the War of Austrian Succession. During the Seven Years War (1756 - 1763) they were at the Battle of Warbung. French Revolutionary Wars, they served at Willems. The most famous of all their battles was 1815 at Waterloo. During the Crimean war they served with distinction at the Battle of Balaclava and again at Sevastopol. During the Boer Wars they were at the relief of Kimberley and Paardeburg. During the First World wWar the regiment in 1914 took part in the retreat from Mons, Marne, Aisne, Ypres, and during 1915 at Arras. 1917, saw them again at Amiens, Somme while during 1918 they took part in the campaigns on the Hindenburg Line, Pursuit to Mons. During World War Two they saw action at Hill 112, Falaise, Hochwald, Aller, Bremen, Merjayun. Alamel Halfa, El Alamein, Nofilia and in Italy at Salerno.
