The inter war years saw The Royal Dragoons stationed in Egypt, India and Palestine before the regiment was deployed to the Western Desert in 1941 seeing distinguished service at El Alamein. Operation Overlord in 1944 saw the regiment in Normandy from where they went onto liberate Copenhagen in 1945.

The regiment spent the post war years in Egypt, Germany and the Trucial States before amalgamation in 1969. Meanwhile, The Royal Horse Guards were serving with The Household Cavalry regiment in Egypt in 1882, the Sudan and South Africa.
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