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2 unusual facts about 4th Queen's Own Hussars


4th Queen's Own Hussars

At the end of World War II, the 4th Hussars served in the Malayan Campaign before deploying to Germany and amalgamating with the 8th Hussars at Hohne in 1958.

Badly mauled during the battles around Gazala and having lost almost an entire squadron (which was attached to the County of London Yeomanry) the regiment was temporarily amalgamated with one squadron from the (similarly depleted) 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars to form the 4th/8th Hussars.


3rd The King's Own Hussars

The remnants of the force, including the regiment, then marched forty miles to Caudete to link up with an Allied army composed of English, Dutch, German and Portuguese troops under the command of the Earl of Galway.

The Williamite army moved southwards as far as Dundalk and fortified the town, but did not advance any further as a Catholic army, estimated 35,000 strong, was reportedly encamped nearby at Ardee.

7th Queen's Own Hussars

In one of these battles by the river Rapti the 7th won their second Victoria Cross when as the regiment were pursuing a band of rebels over the river, they came under heavy fire from the far bank and notwithstanding the peril Major Charles Fraser dived into the river to save three non-swimmers stranded in the middle of the sandbank.

Cranley Onslow

He then joined the military in 1944 and was a Lieutenant in the Queen's Own Hussars.

Owen Frederick Morton Tudor

Owen Frederick Morton Tudor, (1900–1987), was an officer in 3rd The King's Own Hussars and the husband of Larissa Tudor, a woman some claimed could have been Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia.

Queen's Own Hussars

A Squadron (Warwickshire and Worcestershire Yeomanry) The Queen's Own Mercian Yeomanry


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