17th Lancers: Difference between revisions

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Also known as 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own)

1759 raised by Colonel John Hale as Hale's Light Horse known as the 18th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
1761 renumbered as the 17th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
1766 renumbered again as the 3rd Regiment of Light Dragoons
1769 renumbered again as the 17th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
1822 renamed the 17th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Lancers)
1921 retitled as the 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own)
1922 amalgamated with the 21st Lancers (Empress of India's) to form the 17th/21st Lancers
1993 amalgamated with the 16th/5th Queen's Royal Lancers to form the Queen's Royal Lancers

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 == External Links ==
 [http://web.archive.org/web/20071216005411/www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-cav/d17.htm 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own)] www.regiments.org<br>  [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_Lancers 17th Lancers] Wikipedia<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th/21st_Lancers 17th/21st Lancers] Wikipedia<br> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen's_Royal_Lancers Queens Royal Lancers] Wikipedia
-===Historical books Online===
-''Historical record of the Third, or the King’s Own Regiment of Light Dragoons: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1685, and of its subsequent services to 1846''  by Richard Cannon 1847 [http://www.archive.org/stream/historicalrecor00offigoog#page/n5/mode/1up Archive.org ].  India Service commenced [http://www.archive.org/stream/historicalrecor00offigoog#page/n132/mode/1up page 88] in 1837
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