 The
Queen's Royal Irish Hussars were formed from the amalgamation of the 4th
Queen's Own Hussars and the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars in Hohne 1958.
The first tour as a regiment was in Hohne itself as part of the 7th Armoured
Brigade. In 1961 they re-roled as an armoured reconnaissance regiment
deploying to Aden for a year of peaceful patroling during which they manned
their own flight of aircraft.
The
Regiment moved straight from Aden to Malaya in October in 1962 and were
Garrisoned in Ipoh, Singapore and Sarawak. The Squadrons rotated through
this series of widely dispersed camps, patroling to keep the peace from
being broken by Indonesian communist forces, with whom there was some
limited fighting. in 1964 the regiment moved back to Wolfenbuttel as the
armoured car regiment of the first division for four years. it then returned
to England spending a short time in Perham Down then Bovington for two
years after which they returned to Paderborn in Germany. In 1974 the regiment
went on a short tour to Cyprus to help in the aftermath of the Turkish
invasion as part of the United Nations contingent.
In
1979 the regiment moved back to Tidworth for three years during which
an independant squadron completed two tours as an armoured recce squadron
in Cyprus and a small contingent became ceasefire monitors in Rhodesia.
From 1982 - 1987 the regiment was back in Munster, where it completed
a short tour in Ireland in 1983 as the Maze prison guard force. Two years
in Bovington and Catterick followed Munster, then back out to Germany
in 1990 where the regiment took part in the Gulf War and liberation of
Kuwait, spearheading the 7th Armoured Brigade 100 hour advance. Prior
to amalgamation in 1993 the regiment completed another tour of Cyprus
as the United Nations.
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