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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.
In 1857, the East India Company raised the 3rd Bengal European Light Cavalry which, after the passage of the Government of India Act 1858 and the liquidation of the East India Company, briefly became the 21st Regiment of (Light) Dragoons; it was renamed the 21st Hussars in 1863. It became a lancer regiment in 1897, as the 21st Lancers, and in ...
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.
Fisher was commissioned into the 17th Lancers as second lieutenant on 23 May 1900, [2] and served in the Second Boer War, during which he was promoted to lieutenant on 29 July 1901. [3] Following the end of the war, he returned from Cape Town to England in the SS Maplemore in August 1902. [4] Fisher went to the Staff College in 1911. [2]
Hull worked as a postman in Harrogate before enlisting in the 21st Lancers (Empress of India's) in 1907, where he was a shoeing-smith making and fitting horseshoes. [1]On 5 September 1915 Hull was a 25-years-old private when he rescued an officer from certain death at the hands of tribesmen at Hafiz Kor on the North West Frontier of British India, an action for which he was awarded the VC.
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The 21st Texas Cavalry Regiment was a unit of mounted volunteers from Texas that fought in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.In spring 1862, George Washington Carter began organizing a lancer cavalry regiment in central Texas.