Guard Hussar Regiment (Denmark)

Guard Hussar Regiment
Gardehusarregimentet
Cap badge of the Guard Hussars
Active 17 November 1614 – present
(410 years)
Country Kingdom of Denmark
Branch Royal Danish Army
TypeMechanized infantry
RoleManeuver warfare
Raiding
Reconnaissance
SizeFive battalions
Part ofArmy Staff
Garrison/HQI. & II. Battalion – Antvorskov barracks
III.Battalion – Bornholm
Nickname(s)GHR
Motto(s)In Actis Esto Volucris (Be swift in action)
Regimental beltStable belt GHR

(Used by III. Bataljon at Bornholm)
MarchGarderhusarregimentets Signalmarch Play
Anniversaries17 November 1614
10 February 1762
EngagementsThirty Years War
Torstenson War
Second Nordic War
Scanian War
Nine Years' War
War of the Spanish Succession
Great Nordic War
Napoleonic Wars
First Schleswig War
Second Schleswig War
Operation Weserübung
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Iraqi conflict
Websitewww.forsvaret.dk/ghr
Commanders
Current
commander
Colonel Jens Ole Rossen-Jørgensen
Ceremonial chiefHM The King
Notable
commanders
Peder Aalborg
Caspar Hermann Gottlieb Moltke
Insignia
Colours
Standard
Former coat of arms

The Guard Hussar Regiment (Danish: Gardehusarregimentet, GHR) is a cavalry unit of the Royal Danish Army, whose primary task is to train the Guard Hussars for various functions in the mobilisation force.[1] The Guard Hussar Regiment is one of two active cavalry regiments of the Danish Army, and was formed in 2001 through the amalgamation of the original Guard Hussars regiment, Zealand Life Regiment and Danish Life Regiment.[2]

  1. ^ "The Guard Hussars". Archived from the original on May 13, 2011. Retrieved July 25, 2009.
  2. ^ "Regimentets historie". forsvaret.dk (in Danish). Gardehusarregimentet. Retrieved 28 September 2018.