Royal Scots Dragoon Guards plaque
2023.115.3
Plaque featuring the cap badge of The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
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Royal Scots Dragoon Guards plaqueEntry/Object ID
2023.115.3Description
A wooden shield, with a crest of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards attached.Use
The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys) is a light cavalry regiment of the British Army, and the senior Scottish regiment. Formed on 2 July 1971 at Holyrood, Edinburgh, by the amalgamation of the 3rd Carabiniers (Prince of Wales's Dragoon Guards) (themselves the product of the amalgamation in 1922 of 3rd Dragoon Guards (Prince of Wales's) and 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers), and The Royal Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons). The regiment deployed on four tours of Northern Ireland in 1972, 1974, 1976 and 1980, suffering one fatality in 1972, Trooper Ian Hunter Caie. It deployed in the Gulf War in 1991, Bosnia as part of SFOR in 1996–97 and to Kosovo, as part of KFOR, in 2000. Deployed to Iraq for Operation Telic, as part of the British element of the 2003 invasion of Iraq and took part in the advance on Iraq's second largest city, Basra. The regiment saw more deployments to Iraq in 2006 and 2008, suffering two casualties, Lieutenant Richard Palmer and Corporal Gordon Pritchard. The regiment was deployed to Afghanistan, during 2008 and 2011, with the United Nations on Operation TOSCA 27 in Cyprus to conduct peace-keeping for six months from September 2017, to Poland in 2019 and 2020 on Operation CABRIT, as part of the NATO Enhanced Forward Presence Poland Battlegroup, and throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the unit deployed on Operation RESCRIPT assisting the NHS and local authorities across the UK.Category
Memorabilia, Plaque, Heraldry