In Peace & War
The Story of The Queen's Royal Hussars
A British military veteran presents an insider's history of the UK's elite armored regiment across three centuries of service-highly recommended (Military Historical Society). Formed in 1993, the Queen's Royal Hussars trace their origins back to 1685 when King James II formed a standing army. An amalgamation of two former regiments-the Queen's Own Hussars and the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars-the QRH carry on the distinguished history of their antecedents. A veteran of both the Queen's Own and the Queen's Royal Irish, Robin Rhoderick-Jones tells the history of these celebrated regiments who fought alongside each other at Dettingen, Balaklava,…
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- ISBN: 978-1-5267-4696-2
- EAN: 9781526746962
- Produktnummer: 35173522
- Verlag: Pen & Sword Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 11'227 KB
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Robin Rhoderick-Jones joined the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars in 1962 and soon saw active service in the Borneo campaign. In 1967 he flew army helicopters for The Queen's Own Hussars in Aden during its last six months as a British colony. He commanded the Irish Hussars from 1979 to 1981 during which he led a multinational component of the Commonwealth Monitoring Force which supervised Rhodesia's first full elections which led to the creation of Zimbabwe.
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