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  2. 21st Lancers - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. List of nicknames of British Army regiments - Wikipedia

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    The Daily Advertisers – 5th Lancers [3] The Dandies - 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards; The Dandy Ninth – 9th (Highlanders) Battalion Royal Scots [25]; The Death or Glory Boys - 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) later 17th/21st Lancers, then Queen's Royal Lancers [1] [3] (from the regimental badge, which was a death's head (skull), with a scroll bearing the motto "or Glory")

  4. 17th/21st Lancers - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. List of cavalry recipients of the Victoria Cross - Wikipedia

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    9th (Queen's Royal) Lancers: 28 September 1857: Indian Mutiny: Bolandshahr [29] Paul Kenna: 21st (Empress of India's) Lancers: 2 September 1898: Mahdist War: Omdurman [19] Alexander Lafone: 1st County of London Yeomanry: 27 October 1917: First World War: El Buggar Ridge [49] Brian Lawrence: 17th (The Duke of Cambridge's Own) Lancers: 7 August ...

  6. Bertie Fisher - Wikipedia

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    After the war, Fisher was the commander of the 17th Lancers at the time of their amalgamation with the 21st Lancers in 1922. [2] He took command of the 2nd Cavalry Brigade in 1923 and was the commandant of the Senior Officer School in 1927. [ 2 ]

  7. The Longest Yard (2005 film) - Wikipedia

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    The movie was filmed primarily at the New Mexico State Penitentiary on Route 14, Santa Fe, New Mexico. [2] The football game at the end of the movie was filmed at Murdock Stadium at the El Camino College in Torrance, California. The car chase scene was filmed in Long Beach, California. Other parts of the movie were filmed in Los Angeles and New ...

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  9. The Replacements (film) - Wikipedia

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    An unnamed (fictional) professional football league is hit with a players' strike with four games left in the season. Washington Sentinels [3] [4] owner Edward O'Neil calls a former coach of his, Jimmy McGinty, telling him that the league's going to finish the regular season with replacement players, and asks McGinty to return to coach the Sentinels the rest of the season, adding that winning ...