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Royal Dragoon Guards formed on 1 August 1992 as a result of the amalgamation
of the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards and the 5th Royal Inniskilling
Dragoon Guards. As both were in their turn the result of the amalgamations
in the 1920s. The Royal Dragoon Guards now comes with it the traditions
and history of four of the finest Regiments of the Cavalry, the 4th
Royal Irish Dragoon Guards, the 5th Dragoon Guards, the 7th Dragoon
Guards and the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons . All four were raised between
1685 and 1689, during the protracted contest between James II and
William of Orange for the English throne. The Royal Dragoon Guards,
now equipped with Challenger II, are stationed in Catterick
Garrison, North Yorkshire,
continuing a tradition of service that now runs over three hundred
years.
Prior to the amalgamation in 1992, the Museum of the 4th/7th
Royal Dragoon Guards was housed in York and the Museum
of the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards in the Castle at
Chester. The regiments story has also been incorporated in the new
Museum of the
Inniskilling Fusiliers at the Watergate, Enniskillen, Northern
Ireland, whose town has the distinct honour of being the only town
to have two regiments named after it.
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