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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. 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.

  4. Cavalry Reserve Regiments (United Kingdom) - Wikipedia

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    12th Lancers 3/1st City of London Yeomanry 3/1st County of London Yeomanry B Sqn composed mainly of a draft of 160 NCOs and men from 3/1st Welsh Horse Yeomanry: Absorbed into 1st, 1917 7th: Tidworth: 9th Lancers 21st Lancers 3/1st Royal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry 3/1st Berkshire Yeomanry: Absorbed into 1st, 1917 8th: The Curragh: 16th Lancers ...

  5. Queen's Royal Lancers - Wikipedia

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    The regiment's nickname, the 'Death or Glory Boys', came from their cap badge and was known as "the motto". [4] This was the combined cap badges of the two antecedent regiments, and features a pair of crossed lances, from the 16th/5th Queen's Royal Lancers, together with a skull and crossbones, below which is a ribbon containing the words 'Or Glory'.

  6. 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")

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  8. Category:21st Lancers soldiers - Wikipedia

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  9. United States Army branch insignia - Wikipedia

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    The first use of Army branch insignia was just prior to the American Civil War in 1859 for use on the black felt hat. A system of branch colors, indicated by piping on uniforms of foot soldiers and lace for mounted troops, was first authorized in the 1851 uniform regulations, with Prussian blue denoting infantry, scarlet for artillery, orange for dragoons, green for mounted rifles, and black ...