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*[http://ww2talk.com/forums/topic/12065-wd-number-query-and-excellent-vehicle-photographs/?p=132298 Photograph of Bedale , a 17th/21st Lancers Mark VI B Light Tank India Pattern with crew] c 1938-39  , part of a WW2 Forum  [http://ww2talk.com/forums/topic/12065-wd-number-query-and-excellent-vehicle-photographs/?p=132031 thread] which contains additional images but you must be logged into the Forum to view them.
*[http://ww2talk.com/forums/topic/12065-wd-number-query-and-excellent-vehicle-photographs/?p=132298 Photograph of Bedale , a 17th/21st Lancers Mark VI B Light Tank India Pattern with crew] c 1938-39  , part of a WW2 Forum  [http://ww2talk.com/forums/topic/12065-wd-number-query-and-excellent-vehicle-photographs/?p=132031 thread] which contains additional images but you must be logged into the Forum to view them.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=rRb6B7g_pdUC&pg=PA176 Page 176] ''The Conservatism of the British Cavalry and Its Effect on the British Army'' by Michael L. Waller Preview Google Books, refers to the receipt of the regiment’s first motor vehicle in 1938, in India
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=rRb6B7g_pdUC&pg=PA176 Page 176] ''The Conservatism of the British Cavalry and Its Effect on the British Army'' by Michael L. Waller Preview Google Books, refers to the receipt of the regiment’s first motor vehicle in 1938, in India
*Listen to the [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80000943  1977 interview with John Stanley Vincent Marling and Arthur Lawrence], British officer and NCO who both served with 17th/21st Lancers in India 1932-1938. Imperial War Museums
*Listen to the [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80000940 1977 interview with Robert Lifford Valentine ffrench Blake] British officer served with 17th/21st Lancers in India, 1933-1939. Imperial War Museums
*Listen to the [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80000956 1977 interview with Thomas Wentworth Nickalls], British officer served with 17th/21st Lancers in India, 1933-1939. Imperial War Museums


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Revision as of 11:52, 4 July 2013

Also known as 21st (Empress of India's) Lancers

Chronology

  • 1858 raised as the 3rd Bengal European Light Cavalry for service in the Indian Mutiny
  • 1860 renamed the 2nd Bengal European Cavalry
  • 1862 formally moved into the British Army and titled the 21st Regiment of Hussars
  • 1897 redesignated as the 21st Lancers
  • 1898 renamed the 21st (Empress of India's) Lancers
  • 1921 renamed the 21st Lancers (Empress of India's)
  • 1922 amalgamated with the 17th Lancers, to form the 17th/21st Lancers
  • 1993 amalgamated with the 16th/5th Queen's Royal Lancers to form the Queen's Royal Lancers

Service in British India

Regimental Journals

  • Twenty First Hussars Regimental Gazetteer. This journal was first published in Lucknow in 1872 and at least one issue, possibly more , is available at the British Library
  • The Vedette : the Journal of the 21st (Empress of India's) Lancers. Volume 1 1911/1912 to Volume 9, 1919 appear in the catalogue of the National Army Museum
  • The White Lancer and the Vedette : the Regimental Journal of the 17th/21st Lancers . Volume 11-12 1923-1924, Volume 16 1928 and some editions in the 1930s and beyond appear in the catalogue of the National Army Museum

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