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

Historical books online

• The History Of The XII Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales’s) by Captain P F Stewart 1950 is available as a pdf download, Digital Library of India.

This book is also available to read online on the 9th/12th Royal Lancers Museum website (refer above). However currently (August 2015), the book file on the Museum website appears incomplete. As an example, the chapter "The Years Between", page 310 is digital file page 264.