1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards

1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards
Badge of 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards
Active	Since 1 January 1959
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Branch	British Army
Type	Light cavalry
Role	Formation reconnaissance
Size	Regiment 403 personnel[1]
Part of	Royal Armoured Corps
Garrison/HQ	RHQ – Cardiff Regiment – Swanton Morley
Nickname(s)	The Welsh Cavalry
Motto(s)	Pro rege et patria (For King and Country) (Latin)
March	Quick – The Radetzky March and Rusty Buckles Slow – 1st Dragoon Guards and 2nd Dragoon Guards Slow March
Mascot(s)	Welsh pony (Emrys Forlan Jones)[2]
Engagements	Combined battle honours of 1st King's Dragoon Guards, and 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) Wadi al-Batin 1991
Commanders
Colonel-in-Chief	The Princess of Wales
Regimental Colonel	Brig Alan Richmond
Commanding Officer	Lt Col Chris Kierstead
Insignia
Tactical recognition flash
Arm badge	Royal Cypher of Queen Caroline From the Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards)
Abbreviation	QDG

1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards (QDG) is a regiment in the Royal Armoured Corps of the British Army. Nicknamed The Welsh Cavalry, the regiment recruits from Wales and the bordering English counties of Cheshire, Herefordshire, and Shropshire, and is the senior cavalry regiment, and therefore senior regiment of the line of the British Army.