SECOND DRAGOON GUARDS.
The Regiment was chiefly raised near London.
It wore cuirasses for three years.
It bears the “Royal Cypher within the Garter.”
It received its title in 1715 for its conduct at the battle of Preston.
It is not known when its facings were changed to Buff, but it was between 1690 and 1742.
Being mounted on bay horses about 1767 caused it to be called the “Queen’s Bays,” as the other heavy Regiments (except the Scots Greys) had black horses. It is now commonly called “the Bays.”