Its squadrons were located both in Warsaw and Zagłębie Dąbrowskie, taking part in disarming demoralized German soldiers of the Ober Ost.

It protected the Polish rear during the retreat of early summer 1920 and then fought against the Soviets in the bloody Battle of Cycow.

After the battle, the regiment chased the enemy towards Białystok and Augustów, where it clashed with Lithuanian troops, advancing southwards.

As part of AK's 106th Infantry Division, it operated in the area of Częstochowa and Miechów, to be dissolved on 19 January 1945.

On 21 August 1944, yet another Third Silesian Uhlans Regiment was formed in San Basilio, Italy, as part of Polish Armed Forces in the West.

The second one, funded by the residents of Warsaw and presented to the regiment by Józef Piłsudski on 16 October 1921, was lost in the 1939 campaign.

The badge was designed by the then-commandant of the regiment, Major Cyprian Bystram, and it was manufactured by Warsaw artisans Mojzesz Nelken and Rubin Krajkemann.

Finally, in 1937, the day of the 3rd Regiment was established on June 14, the anniversary of the 1919 capture of the town of Lohiszyn (in modern–day Belarus).