Regments History:e 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards was a cavalry regiment in the British Army, first raised in 1685. It saw service for three centuries, before being amalgamated into the 4th/7th Dragoon Guards in 1922.
The regiment was first raised as the Earl of Arran's Regiment of Cuirassiers in 1685, by the regimenting of various independent troops, and ranked as the 6th Regiment of Horse. In 1691 it was re-ranked as the 5th Horse, and in 1746 transferred to the Irish regiment establishment where it was the ranked 1st Horse. It returned to the British establishment in 1788,
Battle Honours
Peninsula, Balaklava, Sevastopol, Tel-el-Kebir, Egypt 1882
The Great War: Mons, Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914, La Bassée 1914, Messines 1914, Armentières 1914, Ypres 1914 '15, St. Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Somme 1916 '18, Flers-Courcelette, Arras 1917, Scarpe 1917, Cambrai 1917 '18, St. Quentin, Rosières, Amiens, Albert 1918, Hindenburg Line, Pursuit to Mons, France and Flanders 1914-18
Ranks
Command:
Colonel-(Col)
Lieutenant Colonel-(LtCol)
Major-(Maj)
Field Officers:
Captain-(Capt)
Lieutenant-(Lt)
Ensign-(Ens)
Senior Non Commissioned Officers:
Sergeant Major-(SjtMaj)
Staff Sergeant-(SSjt)
Colour Serjeant-(CSjt)
Non Commissioned Officers:
Sergeant-(Sjt)
Corproal-(Cpl)
Enlisted:
Lance Corporal-(LCpl)
Private-(Pvt)
ROSTER:
Col:Luke
LtCol:Captain200
Maj:Sim123
Sjt:Zack
Cpl:Shifty,Polo,Ballsack
LCpl:Name,Darth,
Pvt:Loaded gun,Patrick,Bud,Noob killer.,BRITISH,Coolrex,Failz,Leaping,Cplostar,Devin,Gunner,Volland
