12th (Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers

Also known as the 12th Light Dragoons

Chronology

• 1715 raised as Phineas Bowles's Regiment of Dragoons
• 1751 became the 12th Regiment of Dragoons
• 1768 became the 12th Prince of Wales's Regiment of Light Dragoons
• 1816 became the 12th (The Prince of Wales's) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Lancers)
• 1817 became the 12th (The Prince of Wales's) Royal Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Lancers)
• 1861 became the 12th (Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers
• 1921 became the 12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's)
• 1960 amalgamated with the 9th (The Queen's Royal) Lancers to form the 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's)

Service in British India

• 1854 Madras
• 1857 Indian Mutiny Central India campaign - see also Banda and Kirwee Prize Money
• 1877 India
• 1881 Bangalore
• 1902 Umballa
• 1907 Sialkot

In 1884 due to the return of the 13th Hussars to England, 2 privates transferred to the 12th Lancers

External links

• 12th Royal Lancers(Prince of Wales's) including deployments www.regiments.org, an archived site.
  
• 12th Royal Lancers Wikipedia
• 9th/12th Royal Lancers Wikipedia
  
• The Soldier’s Story at Derby Museums tells the stories of soldiers from three regiments; the 9th/12th Royal Lancers, the Sherwood Foresters (now part of the Mercian Regiment) and the Derbyshire Yeomanry.
  • Catalogue of regimental records for the 9th and 12th Lancers available at the Derby Museum and Art Gallery
• 9th/12th Royal Lancers Museum Contains a search facility for those who served in the 19th and 20th centuries and online regimental histories and journals, the latter (at 2019/04) in the years 1909-1913, 1927-1930, and 1946 onwards.

Historical books online

• The History Of The XII Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales’s) by Captain P F Stewart 1950 Archive.org mirror version, originally from Digital Library of India.

This book is also available to read online on the 9th/12th Royal Lancers Museum website (refer above). Some pages may be slow to load.

• The Ninth Queens Royal Lancers 1715-1936 by Major E W Sheppard 1939. 9th/12th Royal Lancers Museum website.
• 9th Queen’s Royal Lancers 1936-1945. The Story of an Armoured Regiment in Battle edited by Joan Bright 1951. 9th/12th Royal Lancers Museum website.
• Historical Record of the 9th Queen’s Royal Lancers 1945-1960 1993. 9th/12th Royal Lancers Museum website.
• A Short History of the XII Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales’s) 1945-1960 by R Brockbank and R M Collins 1991. 9th/12th Royal Lancers Museum website.
• A Short History of the 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales’s) 1960-1985 by Robin Brockbank 1990. 9th/12th Royal Lancers Museum website.
• Khaki and Gown : an Autobiography by Field-Marshal Lord Birdwood 1941. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Born in India in 1865, he lived in England from age 3, and was then posted, aged 19 to the XII (12th) Lancers at Bangalore in 1885, until 1887 when he joined the XI (11th) Bengal Lancers.