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He purchased a commission as Major in 1862, and was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel of the 17th Lancers in 1866. [4] Sometime between 1862 and 1867, he assumed the surname Drury-Lowe in place of Lowe. [1] Drury-Lowe commanded the 17th Lancers for 12 years – most notably at the Battle of Ulundi, [5] [6] the last pitched battle of the Anglo-Zulu ...
9th (Queen's Royal) Lancers: 28 September 1857: Indian Mutiny: Bolandshahr [29] Paul Kenna: 21st (Empress of India's) Lancers: 2 September 1898: Mahdist War: Omdurman [19] Alexander Lafone: 1st County of London Yeomanry: 27 October 1917: First World War: El Buggar Ridge [49] Brian Lawrence: 17th (The Duke of Cambridge's Own) Lancers: 7 August ...
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 ...
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.
General Thomas Arthur Cooke CVO (1841–1912) was a British general whose career spanned the 19th and 20th centuries.. Cooke was gazetted into the 5th Regiment of Foot in 1862 [1] before transferring to the 17th Lancers in 1866. [2]
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 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")
In 1843 he joined the Army, serving first with the 85th Foot and then the 17th Lancers, with whom he travelled to the Crimea in 1854. [ 1 ] Farrell was a sergeant in the 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) , British Army during the Crimean War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC: