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**[http://www.qrlassociation.co.uk/m_history_17.htm History:The 17th Duke of Cambridge's Own Lancers]
**[http://www.qrlassociation.co.uk/m_history_1721.htm History: 17th/21st Lancers]
*Catalogue entry from the [http://www.freemasonry.london.museum/catalogue.php catalogue] of the Library and Museum Charitable Trust of the United Grand Lodge of England [http://62.244.182.221/EOSWeb/OPAC/TitleView/CompleteDisplay.aspx?FromOPAC=true&DbCode=0&PatronCode=0&Language=british&RwSearchCode=0&WordHits=india&BibCodes=17660364 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 [http://www.throughtheireyes2.co.uk/17th-21st-LANCERS-INDIA-1939.html 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.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=rRb6B7g_pdUC&pg=PA176 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
