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| English or Irish School, c. 1800 Colour pencil and wash on card. Portrait of Egan Gibson, Esq., of the 4th Dragoons The head-and-shoulder portrait depicts Mr. Gibson in profile, wearing a blue coat with fur collar. Ebonized papier mache fame. Oval, 8 cms. X 6 cms. (3 inches X 2 3/8 inches). The 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards were a cavalry regiment in the British Army, first raised in 1685. It saw service for three centuries, before being amalgamated into the 4th/7th Dragoon Guards in 1922. The regiment was first raised as the Earl of Arran's Regiment of Cuirassiers in 1685, by the regimenting of various independent troops, and ranked as the 6th Regiment of Horse. In 1691 it was re-ranked as the 5th Horse, and in 1746 transferred to the Irish regiment establishment where it was the ranked 1st Horse. It returned to the British establishment in 1788, as the 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards. Perhaps the most notable engagement of the regiment was at the outbreak of World War I on 22 August, 1914, when a squadron of the regiment became the first members of the British Expeditionary Force to engage the German army outside Mons; four patrolling German cavalrymen of the 2nd Kuirassiers were surprised by two full troops of British cavalry, and after a brief pursuit several were killed, the Dragoons thereby firing the first United Kingdom shots of the war. In 1921, it was retitled the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards and in 1922 was amalgamated with , to for the 7th Dragoon Guards (Princess Royal’s )4th/7th Dragoon Guards. Battle Honours Peninsula, Balaklava, Sevastopol, Tel-el-Kebir, Egypt 1882 The Great War: Mons, Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914, La Bassée 1914, Messines 1914, Armentières 1914, Ypres 1914 '15, St. Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Somme 1916 '18, Flers-Courcelette, Arras 1917, Scarpe 1917, Cambrai 1917 '18, St. Quentin, Rosières, Amiens, Albert 1918, Hindenburg Line, Pursuit to Mons, France and Flanders 1914-18. | |||||||
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