Queen's Royal Irish Hussars

The Queen's Royal Irish Hussars
Regimental Badge
Active	1958–1993
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	British Army
Type	Royal Armoured Corps
Role	Main Battle Tank
Size	550
Nickname(s)	The Crossbelts
Motto(s)	Mente et Manu (By Mind and Hand)
March	The Queen's Royal Irish Hussars
Anniversaries	Saint Patrick's Day, Balaclava Day
Commanders
Colonel-in-Chief	Prince Phillip
Colonel of the Regiment	Sir Winston Churchill Lt Col George Kidston-Montgomerie DSO MC of Southannon Air Marshall Sir John Baldwin Major General John Strawson

The Queen's Royal Irish Hussars, abbreviated as QRIH, was a cavalry regiment of the British Army formed from the amalgamation of the 4th Queen's Own Hussars and the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars in 1958. The regiment saw active service during the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation and during the Gulf War. The regiment was amalgamated with the Queen's Own Hussars to form the Queen's Royal Hussars on 1 September 1993.

The regiment was formed from the amalgamation of the 4th Queen's Own Hussars and the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars in Hohne, West Germany on 24 October 1958. The regiment remained at Caen Barracks in Hohne as an armoured car regiment for 7 Armoured Brigade Group until June 1961 when it returned to the United Kingdom. In September 1961 it moved to Aden, reroling as an armoured reconnaissance regiment and after serving there against insurgents for almost a year, sailed on the SS Oxfordshire to the newly independent nation of Malaysia. It was based in Ipoh, Malaysia from October 1962, and saw limited action against Indonesian insurgents, seeing service in Brunei and Sarawak on jungle operations during the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation. Soldiers from the regiment carried out searches for arms to prevent them falling into the hands of communist guerrillas; this included searching private houses.