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Radetzky March - Quick March Of The 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards

1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards (QDG) is a regiment in the Royal Armoured Corps of the British Army. It is the senior cavalry regiment, and therefore senior regiment of the line of the British Army. The current regiment was formed in 1959 by the amalgamation of 1st King's Dragoon Guards and the 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays). The "Radetzky March", is a march composed by Johann Strauss which was first performed on 31 August 1848 in Vienna to celebrate the victory of the Austrian Empire under Field Marshal Joseph Radetzky von Radetz over the Italian forces at the Battle of Custoza. When, in the middle of the 19th century, an Austrian named Schramm became Bandmaster of the KDG he introduced the tune as being a very suitable Regimental March for the English cavalry regiment of whose band he had been given charge. He served from 1848 to 1874 The march gained an even stronger link with the regiment when, in 1896 the Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria became the Colonel-in ‘Chief of the King’s Dragoon Guards, and it was he who gave permission for the regiment to adopt as its badge the Austrian Double-Headed Eagle-retained as the badge of 1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards.