5th Royal Irish Lancers

9th Queen’s Royal Lancers

12th Royal Lancers

16th The Queen’s Lancers

17th Lancers

21st Lancers

1689: James Wynne’s
Regiment of Dragoons
ranked as 6th Dragoons
1690: ranked as 5th Dragoons
1695: Charles Ross’s
1704: Royal Dragoons of Ireland
1715: Owen Wynne’s
Regiment of Dragoons
ranked as 9th Dragoons

Phineas Bowle’s
Regiment of Dragoons
ranked as 12th Dragoons

Thomas Sidney’s



The Prince of Wales’s Own
Regiment of Dragoons

Charles Churchill’s
ranked as 16th Dragoons
Sir James Tyrell’s
Regiment of Dragoons
ranked as 17th Dragoons

Sir Robert Rich’s
Regiment of Dragoons
ranked as 18th Dragoons

1717:


Charles Hotham’s

James Croft’s
1718:





disbanded
 
disbanded
 
disbanded
 
1719: James Crofts’s
Phineas Bowles’s

1729:

Charles Ross’s
1732: Viscount Molesworth’s

Owen Wynne’s
1737: Sir John Cope’s

Viscount Molesworth’s
1740:
Alexander Rose’s

1742: John Brown’s


1743: Henry de Grangues’s
Samuel Walther Whitshed’s

1746:
Thomas Bligh’s

1747:
John Mordaunt’s

1749: George Reade’s
James Cholmondeley’s

1749:
Viscount Sackville’s

1750:
John Whiteford’s

1751: 9th Regiment of Dragoons
12th Regiment of Dragoons
5th Regiment of Dragoons
1756:



5th (or Royal Irish)
Regiment of Dragoons

1759:








16th
Regiment of (Light) Dragoons

or Burgoyne’s Light Horse
17th
Regiment of (Light) Dragoons


18th
Regiment of (Light) Dragoons

or Hale’s Light Horse
1763:







disbanded
 
17th
Regiment of (Light) Dragoons

1766:





2nd (The Queen’s)
Regiment of Light Dragoons

3rd
Regiment of Light Dragoons

1768:

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







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1769:





16th (The Queen’s)
Regiment of (Light) Dragoons

17th
Regiment of (Light) Dragoons

1783: 9th
Regiment of (Light) Dragoons









1799:



disbanded
 




1816: 9th
Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
(Lancers)

12th (Prince of Wales’s Royal)
Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
(Lancers)

16th (The Queen’s)
Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
(Lancers)




1823:








17th
Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
(Lancers)

1830: 9th (or Queen’s Royal)
Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
(Lancers)










1858:







5th (or Royal Irish)
Regiment of Dragoons
(Lancers)










raised in the Bengal Army of the
East India Company
3rd Bengal European
Light Cavalry

1859:




3rd Bengal European Cavalry
1861: 9th (Queen’s Royal)
Lancers

12th (Prince of Wales’s Royal)
Lancers

5th (Royal Irish) Lancers

16th (The Queen’s) Lancers

17th Lancers



1862:









transfrered to the British Army
21st Regiment of Hussars
1876:







17th (The Duke of Cambridge’s
Own) Lancers



1877:




21st Hussars
9L
12L
5L
16L
17L
21H
1897: 21st Lancers
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21L
9L
12L
5L
16L
17L
21L
1898:




21st (Empress of India’s)
Lancers
layout
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layout
layout
layout
21L
layout
layout
layout
layout
layout
21L
1901: layout
layout
layout
layout
layout
21L
9L
12L
5L
16L
17L
layout
9L
12L
layout
16L
layout
21L
1906: layout
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layout
16L
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1921: 9th Queen’s Royal Lancers

12th Royal Lancers
(Prince of Wales’s)

5th Royal Irish Lancers

16th The Queen’s Lancers

17th Lancers
(Duke of Cambridge’s Own)

21st Lancers
(Empress of India’s)

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1922: 16th/5th Lancers 17th/21st Lancers
layout
layout
16-5L
17-21L
1939:
transferred to
The Royal Armoured Corps
transferred to
The Royal Armoured Corps
transferred to
The Royal Armoured Corps
transferred to
The Royal Armoured Corps
1954: 16th/5th The Queen’s Royal Lancers
9L
12L
16-5L
layout
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1960: The 9th/12th Royal Lancers
(Prince of Wales’s)


9-12RL
layout
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1993: The Queen’s Royal Lancers
layout
QRL
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2015: The Royal Lancers
RL
2017: The Royal Lancers
(Queen Elizabeth’s Own)