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The Queen's Own Hussars, normally referred to by the abbreviation QOH, was a cavalry regiment of the British Army, formed from the amalgamation of the 3rd The King's Own Hussars and the 7th Queen's Own Hussars at Candahar Barracks, Tidworth in 1958. The regiment was posted to Aden in 1967, and to Hohne, Germany in 1970. It was stationed at Hobart Barracks, Detmold from 1977 to 1983 as part of 4th Armoured Division. During the 70s and 80s, the regiment spent time in Canada training for the impending Russian invasion, but it also undertook a number of tours of Northern Ireland. The regiment was amalgamated with The Queen's Royal Irish Hussars on 1 September 1993, to form The Queen's Royal Hussars (The Queen's Own and Royal Irish). ==History== The regiment remained in England until 1960, with one squadron serving in Aden. It was bought back together as the armoured regiment of the 6th Infantry Brigade at Munster in northern Germany. It moved to Detmold two years later and back to Catterick in 1965, except for "A" Squadron, which became the first Berlin Armoured Squadron. 1967 was a very busy year for the regiment; it was converted to an armoured reconnaissance regiment and deployed to keep the fragile peace in Aden, where members of the regiment were awarded one MC and six mentions in despatches. The following two years saw the regiment blown to the four corners of the globe, with independent squadrons serving in Singapore, Hong Kong, Maresfield and Cyprus. The Queen's Own Hussars converted back to an armoured regiment in 1970, and was posted to Hohne as part of the 7th Armoured Brigade for four years, in which time it completed two tours of Northern Ireland - one in armoured cars and the latter on foot. In 1974, the regiment relocated to Bovington for two years, then Detmold for seven years punctuated by another two tours of Northern Ireland, returning to England in 1983. The final move as a complete regiment was back out to Hohne in 1985, from where it completed a United Nations tour of Cyprus in 1990. In 1993, shortly before the amalgamation, the regiment had two large independent squadrons, one serving in Cyprus as an armoured reconnaissance unit, the other as the Maze prison guard force in Northern Ireland.〔(The Queen's Royal Hussars (The Queen's Own and Royal Irish) )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Queen's Own Hussars」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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