10th (Prince of Wales's Own Royal) Hussars

10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own)
Badge of the 10th Royal Hussars
Active	1715–1969
Country	Kingdom of Great Britain (1715–1800)  United Kingdom (1801–1969)
Branch	British Army
Type	Cavalry
Role	Line Cavalry
Size	1 Regiment
Nickname(s)	Baker's Light Bobs, The Chainy 10th, The Shiny 10th
Motto(s)	Ich Dien (I Serve)
March	(Quick) The Merry Month Of May
Anniversaries	El Alamein (23 Oct)
Commanders
Notable commanders	John Vaughan Reginald Barnes

The 10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own) was a cavalry regiment of the British Army raised in 1715. It saw service for three centuries including the First World War and Second World War but then amalgamated with the 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own) to form the Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own) in October 1969.

The regiment was raised at Hertford by Brigadier-General Humphrey Gore as Humphrey Gore's Regiment of Dragoons in 1715 as part of the response to the Jacobite rising. The regiment was involved in cavalry charges at both the Battle of Falkirk Muir in January 1746 and the Battle of Culloden in April 1746 during the next Jacobite rising. It was retitled as the 10th Regiment of Dragoons in 1751.

The regiment took part in the Raid on St Malo in June 1758 during the Seven Years' War. It also saw action at the Battle of Minden in August 1759, the Battle of Warburg in July 1760 and the Battle of Kloster Kampen in October 1760. At Kloster Kampen the regiment's commanding officer, Colonel William Pitt, was badly wounded and taken prisoner. The regiment went on to take part in the Battle of Villinghausen in July 1761. In 1779, the light troop was detached to form the 19th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons, and in 1783 the Dragoons Regiment was retitled as the 10th (Prince of Wales's Own) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons in honour of the future King George IV . In June 1794 Beau Brummell, who became an arbiter of men's fashion in regency London, joined the regiment as a cornet.