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)

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 ^[1]

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

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. Archive.org mirror version.

This book is also available to read online on the 9th/12th Royal Lancers Museum website (refer above). Some pages may be slow to load.