Busby, 10th (The Prince of Wales's Own) Royal Regiment of Light Dragoons (Hussars), 1850 (c)

Brown bearskin.

This regiment was raised as a dragoon unit in Hertfordshire in 1715, in the midst of the 1st Jacobite Rebellion. In 1783, King George III ordered the regiment to switch from dragoons to light dragoons. He renamed it after his eldest son, the Prince of Wales (the future George IV), who became its colonel in 1796.

Impressed by the colourful uniforms of the European hussars, the Prince of Wales renamed, re-clothed and re-equipped the regiment as Britain's first ever hussar unit in 1806. He remained its colonel until his coronation in 1820.

After service in the French Revolutionary Wars (1793-1802), the Peninsular War (1808-1814) and the Waterloo campaign (1815), the regiment undertook a long spell of home service from 1846 to 1855. The regiment was shipped from India to the Crimean War (1854-1856).