Badges above from left 9th Queen's Royal Lancers WW1; 12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's (1903); 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's) from 1960 (all ourtsey British Military Badges

9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's)

Active 11 September 1960 – 2 May 2015

Including
(Reflecting historic name changes)

Major Gen. Owen Wynne's Regiment of Dragoons

9th Regiment of Dragoons

9th Regiment of Light Dragoons

9th Regiment of Light Dragoons (Lancers)

9th Lancers

9th Queen's Royal Lancers

9th (The Queen's Royal) Lancers

9th (Queen's Royal) Lancers

9th Queen's Royal Lancers

Col Phineas Bowle's Regiment of Dragoons

12th Regiment of Dragoons

12th (The Prince of Wales's) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons

12th (The Prince of Wales's) Regiment of Lancers

12th (The Prince of Wales's Royal) Regiment of Lancers

12th (The Prince of Wales's) Royal Lancers

12th (Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers

12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's)

The 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's) was a cavalry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1960 by the amalgamation of the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers and the 12th Royal Lancers. In the later years of its existence the regiment served as a formation reconnaissance regiment, equipped with the Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance (Tracked) family of vehicles and was attached to the 7th Armoured Brigade, the Desert Rats. The regiment was based in South Wigston, Leicestershire, along with its affiliated Territorial Army unit, The Leicestershire and Derbyshire Yeomanry, which formed B Squadron of The Royal Yeomanry. It amalgamated with the Queen's Royal Lancers on 2 May 2015 to form the Royal Lancers

The Queen's Royal Lancers - to follow.

The 12th (Prince of Wales's) Royal Lancers was a cavalry regiment of the British Army first formed in 1715. It saw service for three centuries, including the First World War and the Second World War. The regiment survived the immediate post-war reduction in forces, but was slated for reduction in the 1957 Defence White Paper, and was amalgamated with the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers to form the 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's) in 1960.

The 9th Queen's Royal Lancers was a cavalry regiment of the British Army, first raised in 1715. It also saw service for three centuries including the First World War and Second World War. The regiment also survived the immediate post-war reduction in forces, but amalgamated with the 12th Royal Lancers to form the 9th/12th Royal Lancers in 1960.

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9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's)

Active 11 September 1960 – 2 May 2015

Colonel-in-Chief HRH The Duke of York

Motto - Ich Dien - I Serve

Uniform - Blue, facings Scarlet.

Corps March -

Quick: God Bless the Prince of Wales
Slow: Men of Harlech, The Coburg March

Nick-name - The Delhi Spearmen

Today

Ancestry

3.5

3.5 - 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's)

Formed September 1960 by amalgamation (✽) of

3.5.1 - ✽ 9th Queen's Royal Lancers

Raised by Maj-General Owen Wynne in July 1715, as a regiment of Dragoons in Bedford.

3.5.2 - ✽ 12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's)

Raised July 1715 by Colonel Phineas Bowles as a regiment of Dragoons.

3.5.1 - ✽ 9th Queen's Royal Lancers

Active 1715–1960

WIKI - 9th Queen's Royal Lancers

Battle honours

Early wars: Peninsula, Punniar, Sobraon, Chillianwallah, Goojerat, Punjaub, Delhi 1857, Lucknow, Charasiah, Kabul 1879, Kandahar 1880, Afghanistan 1878-80, Modder River, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, South Africa 1899-1902

The Great War: Mons, Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914, La Bassée 1914, Messines 1914, Armentières 1914, Ypres 1914 '15, Gravenstafel, St. Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Somme 1916 '18, Pozières, Flers-Courcelette, Arras 1917, Scarpe 1917, Cambrai 1917 '18, St. Quentin, Rosières, Avre, Amiens, Albert 1918, Hindenburg Line, Pursuit to Mons, France and Flanders 1914-18

The Second World War: Somme 1940, Withdrawal to Seine, North-West Europe 1940, Saunnu, Gazala, Bir el Aslagh, Sidi Rezegh 1942, Defence of Alamein Line, Ruweisat, Ruweisat Ridge, El Alamein, Tebaga Gap, El Hamma, El Kourzia, Tunis, Creteville Pass, North Africa 1942-43, Coriano, Capture of Forli, Lamone Crossing, Pideura, Defence of Lamone Bridgehead, Argenta Gap, Italy 1944-45

Motto - Vestiga nulla retrorsum (Latin - we do not retreat)

Nick-name - The Delhi Spearmen

Timeline

1715 Raised as Maj-Gen Owen Wynne's Regiment of Dragoons - a.k.a.Wynn's Dragoons

Known by Colonel's names until 1751

• 1719 - James Crofts
  
• 1732 - Viscount Molesworth
  
• 1737 - John Cope
  
• 1742 - John Brown
  
• 1743 - Henry De Grange
  
• 1749 - George Reade
  

1751 - Ranked as 9th of Dragoons and known by that name from 1751. Some source have 9th Regiment of Dragoons
1783 - Redesignated 9th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
1816 - 9th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Lancers)
1830 - 9th (The Queen's Royal) Lancers
1861 - 9th (The Queen's Royal) Lancers - ('The' prefix later removed)
1901 - 9th (Queen's Royal) Lancers - Badge Introduced
1921 - 9th Queen's Royal Lancers
Post 1901 - badge changed - King's Crown
Post 1952 - badge - crown change
1960 Amalgamated with the 12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's) to form 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's).

3.5.2 - ✽ 12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's)

Active 1715–1960

WIKI 12th Royal Lancers

Battle honours

Early Wars: Egypt, Salamanca, Peninsula, Waterloo, South Africa 1851-2-3, Sevastopol, Central India, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, South Africa 1899–1902

The Great War: Mons, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914, Messines 1914, Ypres 1914 '15, Neuve Chapelle, St. Julien, Bellewaarde, Arras 1917, Scarpe 1917, Cambrai 1917 '18, Somme 1918, St. Quentin, Lys, Hazebrouck, Amiens, Albert 1918, Hindenburg Line, St. Quentin Canal, Beaurevoir, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914–18

The Second World War: Dyle, Defence of Arras, Arras Counter Attack, Dunkirk 1940, North-West Europe 1940, Chor es Sufan, Gazala, Alam el Halfa, El Alamein, Advance on Tripoli, Tebaga Gap, El Hamma, Akarit, El Kourzia, Djebel Kournine, Tunis, Creteville Pass, North Africa 1941–43, Citerna, Gothic Line, Capture of Forli, Conventello-Comacchio, Bologna, Sillaro Crossing, Idice Bridgehead, Italy 1944–45

Motto - Ich Dien - I Serve

Uniform - Blue, facings Scarlet.

Corps March -

Quick: God Bless the Prince of Wales
Slow: Coburg March

Nick-name - The Supple Twelfth

Timeline

1715 - raised as Col. Phineas Bowle's Regiment of Dragoons. a.k.a.Bowle's Dragoons

Known by Colonel's names until 1751

• 1740 - Alexander Rose
  
• 1743 - Sir Walter Whitshed
  
• 1746 - Thomas Bligh
  
• 1747 - Sir John Mordaunt
  
• 1749 - James Cholmonndely
  
• 1749 - Lord George Sackville
  
• 1751 - Sir John Whiteford
  

1751 - 12th of Dragoons or 12th Regiment of Dragoons
1768 - 12th (The Prince of Wales's) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
1816 - redesigned 12th (The Prince of Wales's) Regiment of Lancers
1817 - 12th (The Prince of Wales's) Royal Regiment of Lancers
1856 - 12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales)
1861 - 12th (The Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers
Pre 1903 Badge introduced
1903 - New introduced - King's Crown 1918 - name modified to 12th (Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers
1921 name modified to 12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's)
After 1952 Crown Change
1960 Amalgamated with the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers to form 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's).

Notable Personnel

Names with Bold links are to Geni profiles. Other links take you to external biographical web pages.

A

• The 11th Earl of Airlie, who was killed while commanding the regiment at the Battle of Diamond Hill during the Second Boer War

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C

D

• Lieutenant-Colonel John Doyle who commanded the regiment in a successful action in the Libyan Desert during the French Revolutionary Wars

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Sources, References and Further Reading

• A Brief History of the 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's)
• Brereton, J M A Guide to the regiments and Corps of the British Army on the Regular Establishment (Bodley Head) 1985
• Griffin, P D Encyclopedia of Modern British Army Regiments (Sutton Publishers) 2006
• Lumley, Goff Amalgamations in the British Army 1660-2008 (Partizan Press 2009)

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