Sir John Gell’s Regiment of Horse

Parliamentarian regiment of the First Civil War

• March: Battle of Hopton Heath

• June: Storm of Oswestry (Barton's troop)
• July: Skirmish at Oswestry (Barton's troop)

• July: Skirmish at Burton (Barton's troop)
• September: Battle of Rowton Heath (detachment of 300 under Major Saunders)
• November: Battle of Denbigh Green (detachment of 300 under Major Saunders)

Appears to have been a composite unit made up of independent troops at Hopton Heath

A considerable correspondance regarding the regiment survives and is available online at the National Archives

Sir John Gell

Won a skirmish between his troop and a Royalist troop of Captain Brooke near Burton on 2nd July 1645 Captain Barton's Victory.