Cavalry Regiments
An Illustrated History of the Embroidered Silk Postcards is the standard reference book on embroidered silk postcards. It contains references to over 2600 different cards with over 270 illustrations. The section on Cavalry Regiment lists 83 cards. The cards listed below are additional cards discovered since the book was published. The latest additions are shown in RED.
The Cavalry Regiments hold the highest precedence of all the regiments in the British Army. The Household Cavalry is the most senior, as its main function is to protect the monarch. In the First World War period there were also seven regiments of Heavy Cavalry and twenty-one regiments of Light Cavalry.
All embroidered silk postcards of Cavalry Regiments are rare, which reflects the smaller size of each regiment, and the lower number of cards that were published for them.
Images of a representative selection of cards are shown beneath the listings.
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HEAVY CAVALRY REGIMENTS
The 1st King's Dragoon Guards KING'S DRAGOON GUARDS KDG
The 3rd Prince of Wales's Dragoon Guards THIRD DRAGOON GUARDS
THIRD DRAGOON GUARDS 3RD DRAGOON GUARDS
The 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards 4TH/7TH ROYAL DRAGOON GUARDS MCMXXII
The Carabiniers, 6th Dragoon Guards CARABINIERS VI DG 6TH DRAGOONS GUARDS
CARABINIERS VI DG 6TH DRAGONS (sic) GUARDS
The 7th Princess Royal's Dragoon Guards 7TH PR DRAGOON GUARDS
PRINCESS ROYALS DRAGON (sic) GUARDS
LIGHT CAVALRY REGIMENTS
The 1st Royal Dragoons 1ST R. DRAGOONS
The 2nd Dragoons, Royal Scots Greys ROYAL SCOTS GREYS
ROYAL SCOTS GREYS 2ND DRAGOON
The 3rd King's Own Hussars 3 KING'S OWN HUSSARS THE KING'S OWN HUSSARS
The 4th Queen's Own Hussars IV QUEEN'S OWN HUSSARS
The 7th Queen's Own Hussars THE QUEEN'S OWN HUSSARS 7TH HUSSARS
The 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars THE KING'S ROYAL IRISH HUSSARS
The 10th Prince of Wales's Own Royal Hussars X.R.H. P.W.O. O. ROYAL.HUSSARS
The 12th Prince of Wales's Royal Lancers XII LANCIERS (sic) XII
12TH (PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL) LANCERS
The 13th Hussars XII HUSSARS 13TH HUSSARS
The 14th King's Hussars THE KING'S 14. HUSSARS
The 15th King's Hussars XV KH 15TH HUSSARS
The 17th Duke of Cambridge's Own Lancers 17 LANCERS OR GLORY
The 19th Queen Alexandra's Own Royal Hussars 19TH HUSSARS 19TH HUSSARS
The 21st Empress of India's Own Lancers 21 LANCERS
There are only three regiments in the Household Cavalry. A representative image for each regiment is shown below. In total, ten different designs have been recorded.
The images below are examples of embroidered silk cards for each of the seven Heavy Cavalry Regiments. In total, 21 different designs are known.
There were 21 Light Cavalry Regiments in the First World War period. Dragoons were armed with carbines (short rifles), Hussars had swords and Lancers carried lances. In battle, all of them changed their main offensive weapons to a rifle. Sixty-one cards are known for Light Cavalry Regiments and a representative sample of each one is shown below.
