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British Army cavalry regiment
21st Lancers (Empress of India's)
Active
1858–1921/1922
Country
British India (1858–1862) United Kingdom (1862–1922)
Type
Cavalry
Colours
Dark blue uniform with French grey facings, white plume
Engagements
Mahdist War First World War North-West Frontier
Military unit
The 21st Lancers (Empress of India's) was a cavalry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1858 and amalgamated with the 17th Lancers in 1922 to form the 17th/21st Lancers. Perhaps its most famous engagement was the Battle of Omdurman, where Winston Churchill (then an officer of the 4th Hussars), rode with the unit.
The 21stLancers (Empress of India's) was a cavalry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1858 and amalgamated with the 17th Lancers in 1922 to form...
the Crimean War. The regiment was amalgamated with the 21stLancers to form the 17th/21stLancers in 1922. In 1759, Colonel John Hale of the 47th Foot was...
British lines in a disastrous series of charges; later that morning the 21stLancers charged and defeated another force that appeared on the British right...
Royal Lancers (Queen Elizabeths' Own) is a cavalry regiment of the British Army. The regiment was formed by an amalgamation of 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince...
to the 21stLancers as he was promoted to lieutenant on 6 November 1889. De Montmorency was 31 years old, and a lieutenant in the 21stLancers (Empress...
Sir James Everard, KCB CBE March 2017 April 2020 British Army 17th/21stLancers 30. General Sir Tim Radford, KCB DSO OBE April 2020 July 2023 British...
himself attached to General Herbert Kitchener's campaign in the Sudan as a 21stLancers subaltern while, additionally, working as a journalist for The Morning...
the Crimean War and Winston Churchill of the 4th Hussars joining the 21stLancers for their charge during the Battle of Omdurman. Since 1880 British cavalrymen...
at the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War. Charge of the 21stLancers (September 2, 1898) at the Battle of Omdurman in the Mahdist War: the...
successful North African campaign, the 16th/5th Queen's Royal Lancers and the 17/21stLancers as part of the 26th Armoured Brigade of the 6th Armoured Division...
21stLancers (Empress of India's) on 25 August 1886, and promoted to captain on 12 July 1895. He was 36 years old, serving as a captain in the 21st Lancers...
followed in 1807. In 1816 three more regiments changed their title to "Lancers", and in 1818 two more dragoon regiments became light dragoons. By 1861...
Sandhurst and was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the 17th/21stLancers, a cavalry regiment of the British Army, on 1 November 1926. Posted with...
Rutland, he was then commissioned as a British Army officer in the 17th/21stLancers. After leaving the army he joined Durdon Smith Communications and then...
Boys - 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) later 17th/21stLancers, then Queen's Royal Lancers (from the regimental badge, which was a death's head (skull)...
Davidson's England's Pride and Glory; 1894. Woodville's The Charge of the 21stLancers at the Battle of Omdurman, 2 September 1898; 1898. Impressionism found...
Guards". regiments.org. Archived from the original on 18 January 2008. "21stLancers". regiments.org. Archived from the original on 22 December 2007. "1685...
the 16th The Queen's Lancers, the 17th Lancers, the 18th Royal Hussars, the 19th Royal Hussars, the 20th Hussars, the 21stLancers, the 22nd Dragoons,...
Academy Sandhurst. His early career was with the 17th/21stLancers and the Queen's Royal Lancers, which he commanded for two years. Postings include the...
Hussars and Lancers, have their own (single) sequence, hence 1st Dragoons, 3rd Hussars, 5th Lancers, 6th Dragoons, 8th Hussars, 9th Lancers, etc. Although...
Global Information
British India (1858–1862)
United Kingdom (1862–1922)