'18H', 18th Hussars, 1815 (c)

Pencil drawing attributed to Reginald Augustus Wymer (1849-1935), 1910 (c).

Annotated sketch of a mounted hussar of the 18th Hussars.

In 1759, a unit known as the 19th Regiment of Light Dragoons was raised in Ireland. It was renumbered as the 18th in 1763 and the 4th in 1766, before permanently reverting to the 18th in 1769. It spent its first three decades garrisoning Ireland.

During the French Revolutionary Wars (1793-1802), it served in Santo Domingo (1796-97) and then in the Helder Expedition to Holland, fighting at Bergen (1799). In 1805, it was retitled the 18th (King's Irish) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons in honour of King George III. It was redesignated as a hussar regiment in 1807. During the Peninsular War (1808-1814), it fough at Sahagun (1808), Benavente (1808), Corunna (1809), Burgos (1812), Morales (1813), Vitoria (1813), Sorauren (1813), Orthes (1814) and Toulouse (1814). The following year, it charged at Waterloo (1815) before joining the Army of Occupation. Then, in 1821, the regiment was disbanded.

Wymer had retired from the British Army as a Major by 1905, but he had served with the 34th Foot, before transferring to the 91st Highlanders in 1870. He was later made Captain of the 2nd (Militia) Battalion of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders.