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

In 1884 due to the return of the 13th Hussars to England, 5 privates transferred to the 17th Lancers^[1]

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.
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