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 and journals, the latter (at 2019/04) in the years 1909-1913, 1927-1930, and 1946 onwards.

Historical books online

• The History Of The XII Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales’s) by Captain P F Stewart 1950 Archive.org mirror version, originally from Digital Library of India.

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.

• The Ninth Queens Royal Lancers 1715-1936 by Major E W Sheppard 1939. 9th/12th Royal Lancers Museum website.
• 9th Queen’s Royal Lancers 1936-1945. The Story of an Armoured Regiment in Battle edited by Joan Bright 1951. 9th/12th Royal Lancers Museum website.
• Historical Record of the 9th Queen’s Royal Lancers 1945-1960 1993. 9th/12th Royal Lancers Museum website.
• A Short History of the XII Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales’s) 1945-1960 by R Brockbank and R M Collins 1991. 9th/12th Royal Lancers Museum website.
• A Short History of the 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales’s) 1960-1985 by Robin Brockbank 1990. 9th/12th Royal Lancers Museum website.