Light Dragoons

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The Light Dragoons
Cap badge of the Light Dragoons
Active	1 December 1992-
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	Army
Type	Line Cavalry
Role	Formation Reconnaissance
Size	One regiment
Part of	Royal Armoured Corps
Garrison/HQ	RHQ - Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Regiment - Swanton Morley
Motto	Viret in aeternum (It Flourishes Forever); Merebimur (We shall be Worthy) (Latin)
March	Quick - Balaklava Slow - Denmark
Commanders
Colonel-in-Chief	HM King Abdullah II of Jordan
Colonel of the Regiment	Lt-General Sir Roderick Alexander Cordy-Simpson, KBE CB
Insignia
Tactical Recognition Flash
Arm Badge	NCOs - Royal Crest From 15th/19th King's Royal Hussars ORs - South Africa flash From 13th/18th Royal Hussars

The Light Dragoons is a cavalry regiment in the British Army.

It was formed in 1992 from the amalgamation of two regiments, becoming the first dragoon regiment in the British Army for over twenty years:

The regiment currently serves in the formation reconnaissance role, equipped primarily with the Scimitar. They also use other vehicles in this class such as the command and control vehicle, sultan or the field ambulance, samaritan.

1 Colonels-in-chief
2 Alliances
- 2.1 Affiliated Yeomanry
3 Order of Precedence

[edit] Colonels-in-chief

HRH The Princess of Wales (1992–1996)
HRH The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (1997–2002)
HM The King of Jordan (2003–)

The Light Dragoons is one of only two regiments in the British Army to have a foreign monarch as its Colonel-in-Chief (the other being the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires). HM King Abdullah served in the 13th/18th Royal Hussars, one of the antecedents of the Light Dragoons.

The dragoons were traditionally a soldier trained to fight on foot, but transport himself on horseback. In other words, he moved as cavalry but fought as infantry.