2nd Bengal Lancers (Gardner's Horse)

Chronology

• 1809 raised at Farrukhabad and Mainpuri by William Linnaeus Gardner as Gardner’s Horse
• 1823 became 2nd (Gardner's) Local Horse
• 1840 became 2nd Irregular Cavalry
• 1861 became 2nd Regiment of Bengal Cavalry
• 1890 became 2nd Regiment of Bengal Lancers
• 1903 became 2nd Lancers (Gardner’s Horse)
• 1921 absorbed the 4th Lancers
• 1935 became the 2nd Royal Lancers (Gardner's Horse)
• 1947 allocated to India on Partition

Battle Honours

• Arracan
• Sobraon
• Punjaub
• Egypt 1882

• Tel-el-Kebir

External Links

2nd Lancers (Gardner's Horse) Wikipedia
William Dalrymple's article on William Gardner guardian.co.uk
Colonel Gardner's papers at Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk
Gardner genealogy uqconnect.net 2nd Lancers (Gardner's Horse) www.regiments.org
2nd Royal Lancers (Gardner's Horse) www.regiments.org