Although Collins used it as a catharsis for her opposition to the Vietnam War, two years after her rendition, the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, senior Scottish regiment of the British Army, recorded an instrumental version featuring a bagpipe soloist accompanied by a pipe and drum band.

The Pipe Major of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards was summoned to Edinburgh Castle and chastised for demeaning the bagpipes.

The island town hosts a range of attractions including the Castle Coole Estate and Enniskillen Castle, which is home to the museum of The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards.

Britain's only cuirassiers were the Household Cavalry, but Dragoon Guards regiments were classed as heavy cavalry.

There was a successful charge by the British 7th Dragoon Guards on the last day of the war.

A number of armored regiments in the British Army retain the historic designations of Hussars, Dragoons, Dragoon Guards or Lancers.

When this was completed in 1788, the heavy cavalry regiments had become either Dragoon Guards or Heavy Dragoons ( depending on their precedence ).

The designation of Dragoon Guards did not mean that these regiments ( the former 2nd to 8th Horse ) had become Household Troops, but simply that they had been given a more dignified designation to compensate for the loss of pay and prestige.

* 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards

* Royal Scots Dragoon Guards

* Royal Dragoon Guards

The three regiments named as Dragoon Guards were historically sometimes considered heavy cavalry, although by continental standards they were not heavy cavalry since they carried no armour ( unlike cuirassiers ).

The designation " Dragoon Guards " does not indicate the status of Household Troops but is a distinction awarded to former " Regiments of Horse " when these were converted to Dragoons in 1746.

On returning from the continent he expressed a strong preference for the military profession, and a cornet's commission was accordingly obtained for him ( March 1756 ) in the 3rd Dragoon Guards.

Category: 3rd Dragoon Guards officers

Category: 7th Dragoon Guards officers

All companies are now associated with The Royal Welsh except for Prestatyn Platoon which is cap-badged ' REME ', Llandudno Platoon and Bangor Platoon which are cap-badged ' Royal Artillery ', Mold and Porthmadog Platoons which are cap-badges ' Queens Dragoon Guards ( QDG )', and Bradley and Benllech platoons which are cap-badged ' Welsh Guards '.

Their attempt to do so created the most famous cavalry action of the Battle of the Somme, when the 7th Dragoon Guards and the 2nd Deccan Horse attempted to capture High Wood.

Of these, three regiments are designated as Dragoon Guards, two as Hussars, two as Lancers and one as Dragoons.

** The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards ( Carabiniers and Greys )-Armoured

* Catterick-The Royal Dragoon Guards ( Armoured ); Queen's Royal Lancers ( Formation Reconnaissance )

* Fallingbostel-The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards ( Carabiniers and Greys ) ( Armoured )

* Sennelager-1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards ( Formation Reconnaissance )

Serving as part of the 6th ( Inniskilling ) Dragoon Guards ; “ He saw active service with the Inniskillings in Natal in 1888 ”.

< center > Changing of the Dragoon guard by the " Field Marshal Nieto " Regiment of Cavalry, Life-Guard of the President of the Republic of Peru </ center >

Those currently holding this appointment are Field Marshal HRH The Duke of Kent ; Admiral of the Fleet HRH The Prince of Wales ; Captain Mark Phillips, 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards ; Rear Admiral HRH The Duke of York ; Second Lieutenant HRH The Earl of Wessex and Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence.

These include the band and corps of drums of the British Army's Honourable Artillery Company, the Pipes and Drums of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, the band and pioneers of The Royal Regiment of Canada, the band of the Sri Lanka Artillery, and drum majors of the Royal Highland Fusiliers-2nd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland ; United States Marine Band, the United States Army Band, the United States Navy Band, the United States Coast Guard Band, the United States Air Force Band, and the United States Army Field Band.

< center > Changing of the Dragoon guard by the " Field Marshal Nieto " Regiment of Cavalry, Life-Guard of the President of the Republic of Peru </ center >

The Dragoon guards of the " Field Marshal Nieto " Regiment of Cavalry Life-Guard Escort of the President of the Republic of Peru were the classic Guard of the Government Palace until 1987.

The Dragoon Guards of the " Field Marshal Nieto " Regiment of Cavalry were to Perú what the British Royal Household Cavalry Brigade is to United Kingdom in the 19th century and were fashioned after French dragoon regiments of the late 19th to early 20th centuries, today, upon its reestablishment it is now the Peruvian equivalent, alongside the Junin Hussars Regiment and the Mounted Squadron of the Corps of Cadets of the Chorrillos Military School, to the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment.

This category encompasses everything from the Dragoon Spirits enabling each playable character to transform into the eponymous Dragoons, to various incidental items acquired and used within certain Field Maps.

The Marshal Nieto Dragoon Life Guards Escort Cav.

He fought bravely at the Battle of Austerlitz with his dragoons under the command of Divisional General Klein who commanded the 1st Dragoon Division in the Cavalry Reserve of Marshal Joachim Murat.

< center > Dragoon Guards of the Cavalry Regiment " Field-Marshal Nieto " Life-Guard of the President of the Republic of Peru at the Government Palace in Lima-Perú </ center >

In 1861 the two existing U. S. Dragoon regiments were re-designated as the 1st and 2nd Cavalry.

This unit was originally organized as the Second Dragoon Regiment in 1836 and was renamed the Second Cavalry Regiment in 1860, being redesignated as the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment in the 1960s.

* The Heavy Cavalry and Cambrai Band-this band represents the regiments of The Royal Dragoon Guards, Queens Dragoon Guards, Royal Scots Dragoon Guards and the Royal Tank Regiments, and was formed in 2006 by the amalgamation of the Band of the Dragoon Guards and the Royal Tank Regiment Cambrai Band.

The badge of rank is a one-bar chevron worn on both sleeves, or on an epaulette on the front of the Combat Soldier 95 dress standard ( although lance corporals in the Foot Guards, Honourable Artillery Company, 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards and The Queen's Royal Hussars wear two-bar chevrons and in the Household Cavalry a two-bar chevron surmounted by the crown is worn ).

The regiment's official abbreviation ( as listed in Joint Service Publication 101 ( Service Writing )) is SCOTS DG ( note all capitals and the space ), the format of which follows the traditional Cavalry line whereby, for example, The 4th / 7th Royal Dragoon Guards was abbreviated 4 / 7DG, and the Royal Scots Greys was abbreviated GREYS.

Myles Keogh: The Life and Legend of an " Irish Dragoon " in the Seventh Cavalry.

As shown, the Cavalry have two ranks which differ from the regular Army: Dragon ( Dragoon ) instead of Menig ( Private ), and Rittmester ( Master of the Horse ) instead of Kaptein ( Captain ).

*** Danish Jutland Dragoon Cavalry Regiment

It augments the Joint CBRN Regiment and provides CBRN reconnaissance capability to the British Army's formation reconnaissance regiments ( the Household Cavalry, Light Dragoons, Queen's Royal Lancers, 9th / 12th Royal Lancers and Queen's Dragoon Guards ).

Cavalry and Dragoon ( mounted infantry ) units never used them.

In British Army service the CVR ( T ) is mainly used by the Formation reconnaissance regiments which are the Household Cavalry, 1st Queen's Dragoon Guards, 9th / 12th Royal Lancers, Light Dragoons, Queen's Royal Lancers, the Royal Yeomanry and the Queen's Own Yeomanry.

The initial force contained the 1st Queen's Dragoon Guards and D Squadron, the Household Cavalry, both equipped with CVR ( T ).

A heavy brigade is a formation made up from ' Heavy ' Cavalry ; i. e. Dragoon Guards and Dragoons.