Great Britain

5^th Royal Irish Lancers

9^th Queen’s Royal Lancers

12^th Royal Lancers

16^th The Queen’s Lancers

17^th Lancers

21^st Lancers

			Kingdom of England
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 │
1707:	Kingdom of Great Britain
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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 │	│ │ │	│ │ │		│ │ │
1769:	│ │ │	│ │ │	│ │ │	16th (The Queen’s) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons │	17th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons │
1783:	9th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons │	│ │ │	│ │ │	│ │ │	│ │ │
1799:	│ │ │	│ │ │	disbanded	│ │ │	│ │ │
1801:	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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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:	│	│		│	│	Presidency of Bengal
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1858:	│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │	5th (or Royal Irish) Regiment of Dragoons (Lancers) │	│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │	3rd Bengal European Light Cavalry │ │
1859:	│ │	│ │	│ │	│ │	│ │	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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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 │
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1897:	│	│	│	│	│	21st Lancers
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1898:	│ │	│ │	│ │	│ │	│ │	21st (Empress of India’s) Lancers
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1901:	│	│	│	│	│	│
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1906:	│	│	│	│	│	│
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) │
1922:	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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1922:	│	│	16th/5th Lancers		17th/21st Lancers
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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		│
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1960:	The 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales’s)		│ │		│ │
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1993:	│		The Queen’s Royal Lancers
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2015:	The Royal Lancers
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2017:	The Royal Lancers (Queen Elizabeth’s Own) │