17th/21st Lancers (UK)

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Page created 15 July 2000. Corrected and updated 10.02.2005

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	17th/21st Lancers
crest and tie by A. Melville-Brown	United Kingdom

Titles & Lineage

History

Battle Honours

Colours, Standards & Guidons

Uniforms & Badges

Colonels-in-Chief

Colonels


	1922.06.27	17th/21st Lancers formed by amalgamation of 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) and 21st Lancers (Empress of India's)
	1940.12.30	cadre detached to form 24th Lancers
	1993.06.25	amalgamated with 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers* to form* The Queen's Royal Lancers


	*HQ:*
		Prince William of Gloucester Barracks, Grantham, Lincs.

		Deployment and Service


	[combined battle honours of the 17th Lancers and 21st Lancers, plus:] The Second World War: Tebourba Gap, Bou Arada, Kasserine, Thala, Fondouk, El Kourzia, Tunis, Hammam Lif, North Africa 1942-43, Cassino II, Monte Piccolo, Capture of Perugia, Advance to Florence, Argenta Gap, Fossa Cembalina, Italy 1944-45


		The first Guidon was presented by F.M. Gerald Templer on 15 May 1959.

Badges:

Death's Head "Or Glory" (the whole badge being called in the regiment "the motto")

Uniform:

blue; facings: white; piping: white


cap badge 1922-1993


	1969.07.01	HRH Princess Alexandra, The Hon. Angus Ogilvy, LG, GCVO


	1922.	[17th Lancers:] F.M. Sir Douglas (Haig), 1st Earl Haig, KT, OM, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, KCIE [deceased 29 Jan. 1926; also RHG, KOSB]
	1922	[21st Lancers:] Gen. Hon. Sir Herbert Alexander Lawrence, GCB [to 25 Feb. 1938; also Manchester Regt]
	1938.02.25	Lt-Gen. Sir Bertie Drew Fisher, KCB, CMG, DSO
	1947.07.01	F.M. Sir Richard Amyatt Hull, GCB, DSO
	1957.07.01	Brig. Hon. Richard Gustavus Hamilton-Russell, DSO
	1965.07.01	Maj-Gen. Ronald Edward Coaker, CB, CBE, MC
	1975.06.30	Col. Michael Colvin Watson, OBE, MC, DL
	1983.06.30	Brig. John Warner Turner
	1988.07.01	Col. Robert Shaun Longsdon [to 1993]


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	Motto:	Or Glory
	Nicknames:
	Anniversaries:	Khartoum (3 Sep.), Balaklava (25 Oct.)
	Freedoms:
	Marches:	quick: The White Lancer (Richardson)
		slow: Rienzi (Richard Wagner)
	Musicians:
	*Mascot:*
	*Miscellaneous Tradition Links:*


	Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians)	-1993
	Ceylon Mounted Rifles

*Associated Yeomanry:*
	The Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry	1947-1993


		[no external sites have been found]


		The Queen's Royal Lancers Regimental Museum, Belvoir Castle, Grantham (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)
		The Queen's Royal Lancers Regimental Museum, Grantham (Simonides listing)


	Regimental Journal:
		The White Lancer and Vedette [annual]

	Full Histories:
		Ffrench Blake, R. L. V. *A history of the 17th/21st Lancers, 1922-1959*. London ; New York : Macmillan ; St. Martin's, 1962.
		Ffrench Blake, R. L. V. *A history of the 17th/21st Lancers, 1759-1993*. London : Leo Cooper, 1993. {Review by Stephen Luscombe}

	Short Histories:
		Tamplin, R. L. C. *Death or glory, a short history of the 17th/21st Lancers*. [Nairobi : s.l.], 1959. [special issue of the Regimental journal, "The White lancer and the vedette" to mark the two hundredth anniversary of the raising of the regiment."
		*A short history of the 17th/21st Lancers*. Viersen, Germany : 15 Comp. Ord. Dept., 1975.
		Ffrench Blake, R. L. V. *The 17th/21st Lancers. London : Hamilton, 1968. (Famous regiments*) ISBN: 024101543X
		Ffrench Blake, R. L. V. *The 17th/21st Lancers. [Rev. ed.] London : L. Cooper, 1993. ISBN: 0850522722 (Famous regiments*)

	Special Topics:
		Fosten, Bryan. *17th/21st Lancers*. Essex, England : Pompadour Gallery, 1986. [6 pictures, "Set no. 5."]