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The 21st Lancers (Empress of India's) was a cavalry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1858 and amalgamated with the 17th Lancers in 1922 to form the 17th/21st Lancers. Perhaps its most famous engagement was the Battle of Omdurman , where Winston Churchill (then an officer of the 4th Hussars ), rode with the unit.
The 17th/21st Lancers was a cavalry regiment of the British Army. It was formed in England by the amalgamation of the 17th Lancers and the 21st Lancers in 1922 and, after service in the Second World War , it amalgamated with the 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers to form the Queen's Royal Lancers in 1993.
Robert Lifford Valentine ffrench Blake was born on 3 March 1913 in Rawalpindi, India. [1] [2] [3] He was a descendant of the Tribes of Galway.His father was Major St. John Lucius O'Brien Acheson ffrench Blake (1889–1917), who was killed at the First Battle of Gaza, and his mother, Doris Kathleen Tweedie.
21st (Empress of India's) Lancers: 2 September 1898: Mahdist War: Omdurman [19] Adrian Carton de Wiart: 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards: 2–3 July 1916: First World War: La Boiselle [20] James Champion: 8th (The King's Royal Irish) Light Dragoons: 8 September 1858: Indian Mutiny: Beejapore [21] George Clare: 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers: 28–29 ...
The Lancers in Italy during the Second World War' is a brief combat history of the British Queen's Royal Lancers during the Italian campaign. In May 1943, after the successful North African campaign, the 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers and the 17th/21st Lancers, as part of the 26th Armoured Brigade of the 6th Armoured Division, moved to Italy.
He was commissioned into the 21st Lancers in 1881 becoming Inspector of Musketry for that Regiment in 1882 and Adjutant of the Regiment in 1884. [ 1 ] In 1887 he was transferred to India and in 1898 he went to Sudan , fought in the Battle of Omdurman and was mentioned in despatches .
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The Last Charge: the 21st Lancers and the Battle of Omdurman (Marlborough: Crowood, 1998); Hell Riders: the Truth about the Charge of the Light Brigade (London: Penguin, 2004) Published in the U.S. as Hell Riders: the True Story of the Charge of the Light Brigade (New York: Henry Holt, 2004)