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Authors
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T.F.
Mills |
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Page
created 1 August 2000. Corrected and updated
15.07.2006
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1858 |
3rd Bengal
European Light Cavalry |
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1858.07.03 |
transferred
from HEIC to Crown control |
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1859.11.01 |
3rd Bengal
European Cavalry |
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1862.09.30 |
21st Regiment
of Hussars
transferred to British Army |
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1877 |
21st Hussars |
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1897.03.31 |
21st Lancers |
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1898.12 |
21st (Empress
of India's) Lancers
named for Queen
Victoria, Empress of India |
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1921.01.01 |
21st Lancers
(Empress of India's) |
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1921.07 |
disbanded |
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1922.06.27 |
squadron
reconstituted and concurrently amalgamated with 17th
Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) to form
17th/21st Lancers |
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Badges: |
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Uniform: |
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cap badge
© from the collection of
Glenn R. Meyer
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1858 |
Lt-Gen. William Pattle, CB |
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1862.09.30 |
Lt-Gen. Sir John Bennett Hearsey, KCB |
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1865.10.24 |
Gen. William Parlby [also
4th Hussars] |
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1880.07.01 |
Gen. Hon. James William Bosville Macdonald,
CB |
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1882.01.05 |
Gen. Sir Charles John Foster, KCB [also
16th Lancers] |
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1886.03.28 |
Gen. Sir Robert White, KCB |
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1902.09.18 |
Maj-Gen. Sir Alexander James Hardy Elliot,
KCB [also 6th Dgn Gds] |
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1909.07.02 |
Maj-Gen. Sir Frederick William Benson, KCB
[also 19th
St. Catharines Regt] |
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1916.08.16 |
Maj-Gen. Arthur Henry Taylor |
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1919.04.01 |
Gen. Hon. Sir Herbert Alexander Lawrence,
GCB [continued 1922 in 17th/21st
Lancers; also Manchester Regt;
Hon. Col. 6th Bn Manchester
Regt] |
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Motto: |
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Nicknames: |
Dumpies; Hooks
and Eyes |
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Anniversaries: |
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Freedoms: |
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Marches: |
quick:
The Merry Month of May
quick: The Quickstep of the 21st
slow: Coburg (Prince
Albert) |
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Musicians: |
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Mascot: |
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Miscellaneous
Tradition Links: |
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[no external sites have been found] |
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Regimental
Journal: |
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Vedette. |
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Full Histories: |
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[no known published history, but see
also 17th/21st Lancers] |
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Special Topics: |
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Brighton, Terry. The
last charge : the 21st Lancers and the Battle of Omdurman, 2 September
1898. Ramsbury, Wiltshire : Crowood Press, 1998.
ISBN: 1861261896 |
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