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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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