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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.
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.
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 ...
Thomas Byrne, VC (December 1866 Dublin – 15 March 1944) was an Irish British Army soldier. He was the recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
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Educated at Uppingham School, [1] Everard was commissioned into the 17th/21st Lancers in June 1983. [2] In 1995, as Chief of Staff, 4th Armoured Brigade, he was deployed to the United Nations Protection Force HQ, Sector South-West, and subsequently as part of the leading UK element of the NATO Implementation Force (IFOR) in Bosnia. [1]