2nd Queen's Dragoon Guards

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2nd Queen's Dragoon Guards was founded in 1746, from The Princess of Wales's Own Regiment of Horse; redesignated 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) (1872); redesignated The Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards) (1921); amalgamated to form 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards (1959).

They took part in the quelling of a Chartist Mob in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent in August 1842, working with the town's chief constable Samuel Alcock.

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