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created 10 October 2002. Corrected and updated
20.11.2004
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Note:This
is a battalion history of the Regular Army. See the main regimental
page for full lineage and other information.
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Colour Key
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| 1715.07.22 | Sir Robert Rich's Regiment of Dragoons | ||
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| 1718 | disbanded | ||
| 1759.11.07 | 18th
Regiment of (Light) Dragoons raised in Hertfordshire |
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| 1760 | England | ||
| 1761 | Germany (det) | ||
| 1763 | England | ||
| 1763.04.27 | 17th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons | ||
| 1763 | England | ||
| 1764 | Ireland | ||
| 1766.05.26 | 3rd Regiment of (Light) Dragoons | ||
| 1766 | Ireland | ||
| 1769 | 17th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons | ||
| 1775.05 | Massachusetts: Boston | ||
| 1775 | American revolution | ||
| 1778.12 | absorbed remnants of 16th Light Dragoons | ||
| 1779 | American revolution | troop captured at Yorktown and interned | |
| 1781 | England | ||
| 1783 | England | ||
| 1793 | England | ||
| 1795.07.18 | Jamaica | ||
| 1795.07 | Maroon war (4 troops) | ||
| 1796? | Santo Domingo (5 troops) | ||
| 1797 | at sea | shipwrecked | |
| 1797 | England | ||
| 1798 | Flanders (det) | ||
| 1798 | England | ||
| 1806 | South America | ||
| 1808 | Cape of Good Hope | ||
| 1808 | India | ||
| 1814 | India | ||
| 1815 | Cutch | ||
| 1815 | India | ||
| 1816 | Pindari war | ||
| 1818 | India | ||
| 1820 | Cutch | ||
| 1820 | India | ||
| 1823 | England | ||
| 1823 | 17th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Lancers) | ||
| 1828 | Ireland | ||
| 1832 | England | ||
| 1838 | Ireland | ||
| 1841 | Scotland | ||
| 1842 | England | ||
| 1846 | Ireland | ||
| 1851 | England | ||
| 1854 | Crimea | Light Bde | |
| 1856 | Ireland | ||
| 1857 | India: Bombay | ||
| 1857 | Sepoy rebellion | ||
| 1859 | India | ||
| 1865 | England | ||
| 1869 | Scotland | ||
| 1870 | Ireland | ||
| 1876 | England | ||
| 1876 | 17th (The Duke of Cambridge's Own) Lancers | ||
| 1879.02.25 | at sea | ||
| 1879 | Natal | ||
| 1879 | Zululand | ||
| 1879 | India: Mhow | ||
| 1882 | Lucknow | ||
| 1890.11.03 | England | (one sqn in Egypt) | |
| 1890 | Hounslow | ||
| 1891.11.02 | England (whole regt) | ||
| 1893 | Preston | ||
| 1895 | Leeds | ||
| 1897 | Ireland: Ballincollig | ||
| 1900.02.14 | at sea | ship: Victorian | |
| 1900.03.10 | South Africa | 3 Cav Bde | |
| 1900.11 | South Africa | unbrigaded | |
| 1902 | Scotland: Edinburgh | ||
| 1905 | India: Meerut | ||
| 1909 | Sialkot | ||
| 1914.11.07 | France and Flanders | 1 Ind Cav Bde, BEF | |
| 1918.03 | France and Flanders | 7 Dav Bde, 3 Cav Div, BEF | |
| 1920.04 | Ireland: Galway | ||
| 1921.01.01 | 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) | ||
| 1922.04 | England: Tidworth | ||
| 1922.06.27 | amalgamated at Tidworth with 21st Lancers (Empress of India's), to form 17th/21st Lancers | ||
