Other ranks’ cap badge, Queen’s Own Hussars, c1960.
NAM. 1991-08-264-1Introduction
The regiment was formed at Tidworth in November 1958 by amalgamating the 3rd Hussars and the 7th Hussars, which had both existed as independent regiments since the 1680s.
It inherited several honours from these two regiments, including the Hanoverian white horse as its cap badge from the 3rd Hussars and the right to wear the Warsaw city crest on its sleeve, given to the 7th Hussars after fighting alongside Polish troops in Italy from 1944 to 1945. The new regiment remained in England for its first two years before deploying to Germany from 1960 to 1965. It then returned to Britain, leaving one squadron in West Berlin.
Sleeve badge worn by the Queen’s Own Hussars during the 1950s, showing the crest of the city of Warsaw.
NAM. 1983-10-244In 1967 it converted into an armoured reconnaissance regiment and then began a split posting, with part of the regiment going to Aden and part to Malaysia and Cyprus. It reunited in Germany in 1973 and remained there for the rest of its existence, interrupted only by three four-month tours to Northern Ireland in 1973, 1977 and 1979 and two years in England from 1983 onwards.
It became the last armoured regiment in the British Army to convert to using Challenger tanks in 1989 and three years later it was amalgamated with the Queen’s Royal Irish Hussars to form the Queen’s Royal Hussars (Queen’s Own and Royal Irish).
Key facts
Motto:
- 'Nec Aspera Terrent' (meaning 'Nor Do Difficulties Deter')
Titles to date:
- The Queen’s Own Hussars
- The Queen’s Royal Hussars (The Queen’s Own and Royal Irish)
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