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Also known as 21st (Empress of India's) Lancers

1858 raised as the 3rd Bengal European Light Cavalry for service in the Indian Mutiny
1860 renamed the 2nd Bengal European Cavalry
1862 formally moved into the British Army and titled the 21st Regiment of Hussars
1897 redesignated as the 21st Lancers
1898 renamed the 21st (Empress of India's) Lancers
1921 renamed the 21st Lancers (Empress of India's)
1922 amalgamated with the 17th Lancers, to form the 17th/21st Lancers
1993 amalgamated with the 16th/5th Queen's Royal Lancers to form the Queen's Royal Lancers

Twenty First Hussars Regimental Gazetteer. This journal was first published in Lucknow in 1872 and at least one issue, possibly more , is available at the British Library
The Vedette : the Journal of the 21st (Empress of India's) Lancers. Volume 1 1911/1912 to Volume 9, 1919 appear in the catalogue of the National Army Museum
The White Lancer and the Vedette : the Regimental Journal of the 17th/21st Lancers . Volume 11-12 1923-1924, Volume 16 1928 and some editions in the 1930s and beyond appear in the catalogue of the National Army Museum

21st Lancers including deployments www.regiments.org, an archived site
21st Hussars 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: 21st Empress of India's Lancers
- History: 17th/21st Lancers
21st Hussars hussards-photos.com
The Life and Death of Lieutenant Neville Rudd Thompson of the 21st (Empress of India’s) Lancers by Ross Dix-Peek. Lieutenant Thompson and the 21st Lancers, and their part in the Battle at Shabkadar on the 5 September 1915 on the North West Frontier . The regiment spend the duration of World War One (1914-1919) in India, in that region.
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

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 *[http://peek-01.livejournal.com/23643.html  The Life and Death of Lieutenant Neville Rudd Thompson  of the 21st (Empress of India’s) Lancers] by Ross Dix-Peek.  Lieutenant Thompson and the 21st Lancers, and their part in the Battle at Shabkadar on the 5 September 1915 on the [[North West Frontier Campaigns| North West Frontier]] . The regiment  spend the duration of World War One (1914-1919) in India, in that region.
 *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
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