17th Lancers

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

Chronology

• 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)
• 1861 renamed the 17th Regiment of 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

Service in British India

• 1808 India
• 1815 Cutch
• 1816 3rd Maratha War
• 1818 India
• 1820 Cutch
• 1857 Indian Mutiny
• 1859 Sholapore
• 1860 Secunderabad
• 1879 Mhow
• 1882 Lucknow
• 1905 Meerut
• 1909 Sialkot

In 1884 due to the return of the 13th Hussars to England, 5 privates transferred to the 17th Lancers

External Links

• 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) www.regiments.org
  
• 17th Lancers Wikipedia
  
• 17th/21st Lancers Wikipedia
  
• Queens Royal Lancers Wikipedia
• The Queen's Royal Lancers Regimental Museum. Covers the 5th, 16th, 17th, and 21st Lancers
  • History:The 17th Duke of Cambridge's Own Lancers
  • History: 17th/21st Lancers
• Catalogue entry from the catalogue of the Library and Museum Charitable Trust of the United Grand Lodge of England Account books of Lodge held in the Seventeenth Regiment Light Dragoons, No. 361 Locations in India where the Lodge met include: Fort William, Calcutta, from 1808; Surat, Gujarat, Bombay, from 1809; Kaira (Kheda), Gujarat, from 1812; Camp Rajoo, Eastern banks of River and Camp Veerannganum, in 1820; Kaira (Kheda), Gujarat, from 1821; Bombay, in December 1822.
• This link briefly indicates in 1930 the 17th/21st Lancers were posted to Meerut India . They became a mechanised regiment in 1938 when they took delivery of light tanks. At that time the regiment appears to have been in the North West Frontier region. Also includes a few photographs, including light tanks, from a photo album belonging to ‘Buck’ Boyd of the 17th/21st Lancers .The album dates 1937-1939 and covers his service in India and North West Frontier territory. www.throughtheireyes2.co.uk
  • two photographs from this album from www.tennants.co.uk
    • WW2Talk Forum thread about this photo album, with some images, (which are only available to logged in members of WW2Talk Forum)
• Photograph of Bedale , a 17th/21st Lancers Mark VI B Light Tank India Pattern with crew c 1938-39 , part of a WW2 Forum thread which contains additional images but you must be logged into the Forum to view them.
• 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 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 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 1977 interview with Thomas Wentworth Nickalls, British officer served with 17th/21st Lancers in India, 1933-1939. Imperial War Museums

Historical Books Online

• Historical Record of the Seventeenth Regiment of Light Dragoons, Lancers: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1759, and of its subsequent services to 1841 1841. Archive.org. Indian Service commences page 54 in 1808 in Calcutta
• A History of the 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) by Hon. J.W. Fortescue 1895 Archive.org List of officers 1759-1894