12th Royal Lancers
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The 12th Royal Lancers was a cavalry regiment of the British Army raised in 1715. Originally raised as dragoons, they converted to lancers after the Napoleonic Wars, and then to the armoured reconnais
The regimental cap badge between 1902 and 1922
c. 1742 engraving of a regimental private
Illustration of a regimental trooper in 1811
1832 painting of a regimental private
9th/12th Royal Lancers
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The 9th/12th Royal Lancers was a cavalry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1960 by the amalgamation of the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers and the 12th Royal Lancers. In the later years of its existen
12th Royal Lancers
…reduction in forces, but was slated for reduction in the 1957 Defence White Paper, and was amalgamated with the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers to form the 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's) in 1960. A dragoon regiment was raised in Reading by Brigadier-General Phineas Bowles as Phineas Bowles's Regiment of Dragoons in July 1715 during the…
Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance (Tracked) vehicle being operated in Afghanistan by soldiers of the 9th/12th Royal Lancers
9th/12th Royal Lancers guard of honour in full dress as part of a ceremony marking the centenary of the British army's last cavalry charge, by the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers, 7 September 1914