13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own)

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British Army regiment armoured regiment cavalry regiment

The 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) was a British Army cavalry regiment, later an armoured unit, that served in major 20th-century conflicts before being amalgamated into The Light Dragoons.

Aliases (1)

18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) ×2

Statements (44)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	British Army regiment → armoured regiment → cavalry regiment →
activePeriod	1922–1992 →
allegiance	Crown of the United Kingdom →
amalgamatedInto	The Light Dragoons →
arm	Royal Armoured Corps NERFINISHED →
associatedWith	British cavalry regimental system → Royal Armoured Corps cap badge →
branch	British Army →
convertedTo	armoured regiment →
country	United Kingdom →
dateFormed	1922 →
disbanded	1992 →
equipment	armoured fighting vehicles → tanks →
era	20th century →
formedByMergerOf	13th Hussars → 18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) →
garrison	Fallingbostel → Paderborn NERFINISHED → Tidworth →
honorificSuffix	Queen Mary's Own →
militaryFunction	armoured warfare → cavalry →
namedAfter	Queen Mary →
notableFor	service during the Normandy landings → transition from horse cavalry to armour →
participatedIn	Cold War deployments → D-Day → Normandy landings NERFINISHED → Northwest Europe campaign (1944–1945) → Second World War →
partOf	British Army of the Rhine → Royal Armoured Corps NERFINISHED →
precededBy	13th Hussars → 18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) →
regimentalCategory	Hussars →
regimentalTraditionsCarriedOnBy	The Light Dragoons →
role	armoured reconnaissance →
service	British Army armoured forces →
successor	The Light Dragoons →
type	armoured → line cavalry →

Referenced by (4)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) ("18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own)") →	formedByMergerOf
Light Dragoons →	formedFrom
Light Dragoons →	honoursInheritedFrom
13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) ("18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own)") →	precededBy