Royal Scots Dragoon Guards

The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards ( Carabiniers and Greys ) ( SCOTS DG) (English: " The Royal Scottish Dragoon Guards " ) are the only Scottish cavalry regiment of the British armed forces ( BFG - British Forces Germany ).

History

1971 in Edinburgh by merging the The Royal Scots Greys ( 2nd Dragoons ) and the 3rd Carabiniers (Prince of Wales 's Dragoon Guards ) founded the The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards ( Carabiniers and Greys ). It continues the tradition of the two combined regiments and bears the nickname Carabiniers and Greys and the word " Waterloo" in the badge. In the Battle of Waterloo, the Scots Greys were excellent.

As part of the 7th Armoured Brigade ( also known as the Desert Rats ), the regiment was involved in the Second Gulf War in 1991 ( Operation Desert Storm ) and the 2003 Iraq War ( Operation Iraqi Freedom ).

The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards - currently stationed in the garrison Hohne, the Bad Fallingbostel (Lower Saxony, Germany ), right on NATO military training area mountains - are equipped with the modern Challenger 2 main battle tanks.

Pipes and Drums

The regiment has - like many Scottish military units - own bagpipe band, the Pipes and Drums and a brass band. The military band is touring the world and playing in competitions, open air concerts and military parades. Her most famous piece is Amazing Grace. With this title, they succeeded on 15 April 1972, the peak position of the single charts in the United Kingdom (and in Australia) to achieve. Its official name on the single was The Pipes and Drums and Military Band of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards. Thus, they were the band with the longest name on the number-one position in the UK, but also the first number one on the traditional instrument of Scotland, the bagpipe was heard.

Amazing Grace had the Pipes and Drums recorded for the LP Farewell to the Greys - a farewell gift to one of the regiments, which was closed for the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards. Even at the time of his hits, the regiment was stationed in Germany ( in the Westphalian town of Herford ), so that most musicians do not mitbekamen that their piece on British radio met great listener feedback. Since many asked to see the piece, it was eventually released by RCA as a single. Within three weeks she was number one and stayed there for five weeks. In Switzerland, it reached # 3 in Germany and placed 11th

The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards band had in their successful 1972 two more singles in the British charts: Heykens Serenade / The Day Is Ended ( highest ranking: 30th place ) and at Christmas a version of Little Drummer Boy ( 13th place).