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A troop of 12th Royal Lancers exercising with Lanchester 6×4 armoured cars in 1938. In 1921 the regiment was re-titled the 12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's). [1] In 1928, it gave up its horses and was equipped with armoured cars, taking over vehicles left in Egypt by two Royal Tank Corps armoured car units, the 3rd and 5th Companies. [28]
A Brief History of the 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's) Brockbank, R & Collins, RM. A Short History of the XII Royal Lancers 1945–60. Polestar Wheatons Ltd; Charrington, Richard A. Spearmen, the History of the 9th/12th Royal Lancers. ISBN 978-0-95-665720-6. Hanwell (1949). A Short History of the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers 1715–1949 ...
The Royal Lancers (Queen Elizabeths' Own) is a cavalry regiment of the British Army. The regiment was formed by an amalgamation of the 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's) and the Queen's Royal Lancers on 2 May 2015. It serves in the 1st Deep Reconnaissance Strike Brigade Combat Team. The Royal Lancers are part of the 3rd (UK) Division.
The tunic was in a completely lancer-style fashion with the coloured lapels folded back in imitation of Napoleon's Polish Lancers. The men even wore a waist belt or sash with two dark blue stripes on a backing colour, and in the small of the back they had the "waterfall" of the lancers.
He transferred to the 10th Light Dragoons and rose to the rank of captain by purchase before transferring to the 12th (The Prince of Wales's) Royal Regiment of Lancers in 1872. Russell served with Garnet Wolseley in the 1873–1874 Anglo-Ashanti War and was considered a member of the Wolseley ring of rising men.
Prince of Wales's Regiment is a title that has been carried by many regiments of the British, ... 12th (Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers formed 1715, disbanded 1960;
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9th Queen's Royal Lancers; 10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own) 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own) 12th (Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers; 13th Hussars; 14th King's Hussars; 15th The King's Hussars; 16th The Queen's Lancers; 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) 18th Hussars; 19th Hussars; 20th Hussars; 21st Hussars (Lancers from 1897)