Regiments of the Regular Army

1st (King's) Dragoon Guards
August 1914 : in Lucknow in India, part of the Lucknow Cavalry Brigade.
Moved with Brigade to France as part of 1st Indian Cavalry Division, landed Marseilles 7 November 1914.
26 November 1916 : 1st Indian Cavalry Division renamed as 4th Cavalry Division.
7 October 1917 : left Brigade and returned to India, where it then remained.
Joined 1st (Peshawar) Division in August 1918, from 14th Cavalry Brigade.

2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays)
August 1914 : at Aldershot, part of 1st Cavalry Brigade in Cavalry Division. Moved to France.
16 September 1914 : Cavalry Division renamed as 1st Cavalry Division.

3rd (Prince of Wales's) Dragoon Guards
August 1914 : at Cairo in Egypt. Recalled to England, arrived at Liverpool on 18 October 1914.
31 October 1914 : landed in France and on 4 November under command of 6th Cavalry Brigade in 3rd Cavalry Division.

4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards
August 1914 : at Tidworth, part of 2nd Cavalry Brigade in Cavalry Division. Moved to France 16 August.
16 September 1914 : Cavalry Division renamed as 1st Cavalry Division.

5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Dragoon Guards
August 1914 : at Aldershot, part of 1st Cavalry Brigade in Cavalry Division. Moved to France 16 August.
16 September 1914 : Cavalry Division renamed as 1st Cavalry Division.

6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)
August 1914 : at Canterbury, part of 4th Cavalry Brigade in Cavalry Division. Moved to France in August.
16 September 1914 : Cavalry Division renamed as 1st Cavalry Division.
14 October 1914 : transferred with Brigade to 2nd Cavalry Division.

7th (Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards
August 1914 : in Secunderabad in India, part of the Secunderabad Cavalry Brigade.
Moved with Brigade to France as part of 1st Indian Cavalry Division, landed Marseilles at 13 October 1914.
23 December 1914 : transferred with Brigade to 2nd Indian Cavalry Division.
26 November 1916 : 2nd Indian Cavalry Division renamed as 5th Cavalry Division.
February 1918 : Division broken up; regiment transferred on 10 March 1918 to 7th Cavalry Brigade in 3rd Cavalry Division.

Men who served with the Dragoon Guards can be researched in exactly the same way as, for example, infantrymen.
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