The Regimental Museum Display is housed in the Military Gallery at Derby Museum

The history of the Regiment began in 1715 when the two, then separate, Cavalry regiments were raised to counter the Jacobite Rebellion, since then they have been involved at Waterloo; in the Peninsula War; the Indian Mutiny; in the Crimean War; the 1879 Afghan War, the Boer War; the First and Second World Wars; and the Gulf War. The two regiments were merged in 1960 to become the modern Armoured Unit 9th/12th Royal Lancers (The Prince of Wales') and are currently based in Germany.

The museum traces the Regiment’s history through its displays of uniform, medals, weapons and lances, sporting equipment, and personal items.

A touch-screen computer in the Gallery provides access to the museum’s archive of men who served in the First World War,
1914-1919. Photographs have been included wherever possible.

Derbyshire Yeomanry
and The Sherwood Foresters

In addition to the material of the 9th/12th Lancers, the museum also has displays covering the Derbyshire Yeomanry and the Derbyshire elements of the Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment, concentrating on the Derby Militias and the 95th Regiment of Foot.  They often fought in the same conflicts as the 9th/12th Lancers.

 

Soldier’s Story

The military gallery is due to be re-developed in 2007/2008 with the aid of a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, in partnership with the 9th/12th Lancers, the Derbyshire Yeomanry, Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment and Derby City Council. The new gallery will be called Soldier’s Story. The old gallery will close May/June 2007 and be shut whilst the work is carried out. The new gallery is expected to reopen August/September 2008. Further details and news will be communicated here – please come back to check on our progress.

Enquiries:

The Military Keeper, Mr Mike Galer is happy to receive enquiries concerning the history and men of the 9th/12th Lancers and the Derbyshire Yeomanry, military history in general and the identification of medals, uniforms, weapons and objects.

The museum is happy to receive donations of objects or archive material relating to the 9th/12th Lancers, the 95th Regiment of Foot/Derbyshire Regiment, The Sherwood Foresters, the Derbyshire Yeomanry and occasionally other regiments where there are links with Derby.

The museum holds archive material relating to individuals who served with the 9th and 12th Lancers, and the Derbyshire Yeomanry, particularly for the Boer War and the Great War - WW1 - but also some much older records. If you have an enquiry, or wish to donate any object, please make contact.

E-mail enquiries: mike.galer@derby.gov.uk
Postal enquiries:
Mike Galer
Keeper of Military and Social History
Derby Museums and Art Gallery
The Strand, Derby DE1 1BS
Tel: 01332 716656
Fax: 01332 716670  

Gallery Opening Hours 

External Links:

For enquires about the Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment and the men who served in it and its predecessors, please contact the regimental museum at Chilwell or Nottingham Castle, by emailing: archivist@wfrmuseum.org.uk or visit their website at http://www.wfrmuseum.org.uk.

If you are tracing military ancestors, advice is available on the National Archives website http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk just follow the ‘Military History’ links.

For information about the modern regiment and its current activities, please see the 9th/12th Lancers page at the Army website:  http://www.army.mod.uk/912lancers/index.htm

For old comrades, as well as welfare issues relating to ex-servicemen, please contact:
9th/12th Royal Lancers Home Headquarters (HHQ)
Regimental Secretary
TA Centre
South Wigston
Leicester LE18 4UX
0116 275 9571
www.delhispearman.org.uk