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The 17th Lancers advancing, wearing their early-war uniform, postcard after Harry Payne Uniforms worn by the 17th between 1768 and 1914, by Richard Simkin. The regiment, which was based in Sialkot in India at the start of the First World War , landed in France as part of the 2nd (Sialkot) Cavalry Brigade in the 1st Indian Cavalry Division [ 51 ...
Uniform variations of the 17th Light Dragoons (later Lancers). The uniform shown is the 1784 variant, which would remain until 1810. ... as were the 17th–20th. By ...
The 17th Lancers advancing, wearing their early-war uniform, postcard after Harry Payne. In September 1914, the brigade was mobilized as the 2nd (Sialkot) Cavalry Brigade and assigned to the 1st Indian Cavalry Division. [4] With the division, it departed Bombay on 16 October 1914 and landed at Marseilles on 7 November.
The Daily Advertisers – 5th Lancers [3] The Dandies – 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards; The Dandy Ninth – 9th (Highlanders) Battalion Royal Scots [26]; 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")
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.
The British were C Squadron of the 17th Lancers. The Boers took advantage of a mist to encircle the British camp. When Smuts' vanguard ran head on into a Lancer patrol, the British hesitated to fire because many of the Boers wore captured British uniforms.
This is a list of numbered Regiments of Cavalry of the British Army from the mid-18th century until 1922 when various amalgamations were implemented. The Life Guards were formed following the end of the English Civil War as troops of Life Guards between 1658 and 1659. [1]
Charge of the Light Brigade by Richard Caton Woodville Jr.. The charge was made by the Light Brigade of the British cavalry, which consisted of the 4th and 13th Light Dragoons, the 17th Lancers, and the 8th and 11th Hussars, [1] under the command of Major General James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan.