10th Royal Hussars The 10th Royal Hussars ( Prince of Wales ' s Own ) was a cavalry regiment of the British Army from 1715 to 1969 . Early history . In response to the Jacobite Rebellion , the regiment was raised in 1715 as Humphrey Gore ' s Regiment of Dragoons . It was known by the names of several other colonels in subsequent years , fighting at the Battle of Falkirk and Battle of Culloden as Cobham ' s Regiment of Dragoons . It was retitled as the 10th Regiment of Dragoons in 1751 . During the Seven Years ' War , the light troop of the regiment ( formed in 1755 ) fought in a number of raids on the French coast , and the regiment itself fought at the Battle of Warburg , Battle of Kloster Camp , Battle of Vellingshausen and Battle of Wilhelmsthal . In 1779 , the light troop was detached to form the 19th Regiment of ( Light ) Dragoons , and in 1783 the Dragoons Regiment was retitled as the 10th ( Prince of Wales ' s Own ) Regiment of ( Light ) Dragoons in honour of the future King George IV of the United Kingdom . Beau Brummell was a cornet at the time , and it was in the regiment that he met the prince . Napoleonic Wars . In 1806 , the regiment was again redesignated , this time becoming a hussar regiment as the 10th ( Prince of Wales ' s Own ) Regiment of ( Light ) Dragoons ( Hussars ) , and sailed for Spain in 1808 . During the Peninsular War , they fought at Sahagún , Benavente , and the Battle of Corunna . In 1813 , having landed once more in Spain , they fought at Morales , and Vittoria in Spain , and then at Orthes and Toulouse in France . In the Waterloo campaign they again saw action , fighting at the Battle of Waterloo as part of the charge which routed the French cavalry . Victorian era . After being sent to India in the 1840s , the regiment was deployed during the Crimean War . They saw action in the Siege of Sevastopol , with fighting at the Battle of Eupatoria and Kerch . In 1861 they were renamed the 10th ( The Prince of Wales ' s Own ) Royal Hussars . They saw action in the Second Anglo - Afghan War , at the Battle of Ali Masjid in 1878 , and in the Sudan , Battle of El Teb , and Egypt in 1884 . With the outbreak of the Second Boer War , the regiment sailed for South Africa in 1899 . After fighting at Colesberg , the regiment participated in the relief of Kimberley in February 1900 , the Battle of Paardeberg immediately afterwards , and then two years of fighting in the Transvaal . The regiment also saw action on the North - West Frontier in 1908 . First World War . In 1914 , the regiment was recalled to England and quickly despatched to France as part of the British Expeditionary Force , in 3rd Cavalry Division . Whilst it did not see a great deal of action as cavalry , it provided one company of men for an infantry battalion , which served in the front lines . Inter - war period . After brief service in Ireland after the war , the regiment returned to the UK in 1921 and were retitled 10th Royal Hussars ( Prince of Wales ' s Own ) . Deploying to Egypt in 1929 and India in 1930 , the regiment returned to the UK in 1936 and began the process of mechanisation . Originally assigned to 3rd Infantry Division , they were moved to the Mobile Division and then to 2nd Armoured Brigade of 1st Armoured Division in 1939 . At the same time , they became part of the Royal Armoured Corps . Second World War . With the outbreak of war , the 1st Armoured deployed to France . It fought in northern France and Belgium , returning to England without any vehicles in June 1940 . In December 1940 , a group of personnel were detached to form the cadre of the 23rd Hussars . In November 1941 the regiment deployed to North Africa with 2nd Armoured Brigade , joining 7th Armoured Division . Now equipped with Crusader tanks , they saw action in Operation " Crusader " , the Battle of Alam Halfa and the Second Battle of El Alamein . In Italy , from 1944 to 45 , the regiment fought both as an armoured unit and as dismounted infantry . Post - war period . The regiment deployed to Italy and Germany as occupation forces in 1945 - 6 , and then spent most of the subsequent years as an armoured regiment in the British Army of the Rhine . There were brief overseas deployments to Aqaba in Jordan in 1956 - 57 , where 19 members of the regiment were killed in an air crash at El Quweira , and to Aden Protectorate during the Emergency in 1964 . In 1969 , the regiment amalgamated with the 11th Hussars ( Prince Albert ' s Own ) to form The Royal Hussars ( Prince of Wales ' s Own ) .