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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.
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 regiment's nickname, the 'Death or Glory Boys', came from their cap badge and was known as "the motto". [4] This was the combined cap badges of the two antecedent regiments, and features a pair of crossed lances, from the 16th/5th Queen's Royal Lancers, together with a skull and crossbones, below which is a ribbon containing the words 'Or Glory'.
Queen Camilla is paying a sartorial tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth II.. Camilla, 76, wore the late monarch’s brooch while visiting the Royal Lancers, a cavalry regiment in the British army ...
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 the 1940 campaign in France and Flanders, the 12th Royal Lancers was the sole armoured car regiment fielded by the British Expeditionary Force. [1] During the 1940 campaign, the 12th Lancers had an authorized strength of 38 armoured cars and about 380 men organised into a headquarters and three squadrons.
5th (Royal Irish) Lancers 12th Lancers 3/1st City of London Yeomanry 3/1st County of London Yeomanry B Sqn composed mainly of a draft of 160 NCOs and men from 3/1st Welsh Horse Yeomanry: Absorbed into 1st, 1917 7th: Tidworth: 9th Lancers 21st Lancers 3/1st Royal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry 3/1st Berkshire Yeomanry: Absorbed into 1st, 1917 8th: The ...
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]