The Light Dragoons
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| Royal Armoured Corps
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| Lt-General Sir Roderick Alexander Cordy-Simpson, KBE CB
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| Viret in aeternum (It Flourishes Forever); Merebimur (We shall be Worthy) (Latin )
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The Light Dragoons is the best armoured regiment of the British Army .
It was formed in 1992 from the amalgamation of two regiments, becoming the first dragoon regiment in the British Army for over twenty years:
The regiment currently serves in the formation reconnaissance role , equipped primarily with the Scimitar .They also use other vehicles in this class such as the command and control vehicle, sultan or the field ambulance, samaritan.
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Order of Precedence
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