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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 Battle of Omdurman was fought during the Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan between a British–Egyptian expeditionary force commanded by British Commander-in-Chief major general Horatio Herbert Kitchener and a Sudanese army of the Mahdist State, led by Abdallahi ibn Muhammad (the Khalifa), the successor to the self-proclaimed Mahdi, Muhammad Ahmad.
Thomas Byrne (VC) / 51.285715; 1.064139. 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.
17th/21st Lancers. 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.
De Montmorency was 31 years old, and a lieutenant in the 21st Lancers (Empress of India's), British Army during the Sudan Campaign when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC: On 2 September 1898 at the Battle of Omdurman , Sudan , after the charge, Lieutenant de Montmorency returned to help an officer who was lying ...
The Last Charge: the 21st Lancers and the Battle of Omdurman (Marlborough: Crowood, 1998); Hell Riders: the Truth about the Charge of the Light Brigade (London: Penguin, 2004) Published in the U.S. as Hell Riders: the True Story of the Charge of the Light Brigade (New York: Henry Holt, 2004)
Battle of Omdurman, Sudan Campaign: 21st Lancers: 17th/21st Lancers: Omdurman, Sudan: Quebec [33] [note 5] Edmund De Wind: 1918* First World War: 15th Battalion, The Royal Irish Rifles: Royal Irish Regiment: Groagie, France: Alberta [34] [note 6] Thomas Dinesen: 1918: First World War: 42nd Battalion, CEF: Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment ...
The 3rd Dragoon Guards, with 333 dead, had the most killed, while the 7th Hussars had 80 dead, one less than the 21st Lancers, which had remained in India throughout the war. [94] The dead included one major general , [ 95 ] 11 brigadier generals , [ nb 8 ] but only 28 of the 1,161 lieutenant colonels killed during the war were from the cavalry ...