14th Kings Hussars 1918-1923

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Member Since: January 2003 Posts: 1,816 Send Message	Quoy	Report	15 Feb 2011 00:55
	Have you seen this site ? http://www.armymuseums.org.uk/museums/0000000003-14th-20th-King-s-Hussars-and-Duke-of-Lancaster-s-Own-Yoemanry.htm
Member Since: October 2005 Posts: 31 Send Message	Michael	Report	14 Feb 2011 15:21
Member Since: October 2005 Posts: 31 Send Message	My grandfather was born in June 1900 in Reading Berkshire when he turned eighteen in 1918 five months before the end of the Great war he was conscripted into the army joining the Worcester Regiment but later getting transferred to the 14th Kings Hussars he was in Germany after the war with the BAOR in the Rhineland being stationed near Düsseldorf I have a few old photos of the army Band which he was in marching over the bridge in Cologne but am hoping somebody might be reading this who also had ancestors who was in the regiment and have some old pictures of this period my grandfather left the army roughly at the time when the 14th became the 14/20th Hussars in 1922. Thank you.