12th Royal Lancers
At the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815, the regiment charged down the slope to support the Union Brigade of medium cavalry.[22] The regiment was deployed to South Africa for service in the Second Boer War in October 1899, and took part in the relief of Kimberley and the ensuing Battle of Paardeberg in February 1900.Almost 530 officers and men left Cape Town aboard SS Lake Manitoba in September 1902, arriving at Bombay the following month and was then stationed at Ambala in Punjab.[26] The 9th/12th Royal Lancers celebrated Mons/Moy Day annually, which commemorated the last occasions on which each predecessor regiment charged with lances.[29] On 31 December B and C squadrons were sent again to Egypt with 29 armoured cars as a response to the Italian invasion of Abyssinia and strengthening garrisons in Libya.[30][31] The 12th Lancers was an armoured car regiment equipped with the Morris CS9, in the 1940 campaign in France and Flanders, playing a key part in shielding the retreat to Dunkirk.Subsequently, the regiment fought as divisional troops for the 1st Armoured Division at the Second Battle of El Alamein in October 1942[33] and then served as a corps-level reconnaissance unit in the Italian Campaign.
Cap badgeBritish ArmyMajor-GeneralPhineas Bowles (Sr)Lieutenant-GeneralPhineas Bowles (Jr)Thomas BlighSir John MordauntGeorge Germain, 1st Viscount SackvilleEdward HarveyGeneral Sir William PittWilliam KeppelSir William Payne-GallweySir Colquhoun GrantSir Hussey VivianRobert BroadwoodWilliam Birdwood, 1st Baron BirdwoodSir Richard McCreeryFirst World WarSecond World War1957 Defence White Paper9th Queen's Royal Lancers9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's)John DoyledragoonsReadingPhineas BowlesJacobite rebellionKing George IIIthree ostrich feathersArthur Wesley (later Duke of Wellington)French Revolutionary Warssiege of BastiaCorsicaPope Pius VIAlexandre-Jean Dubois-DrahonetAlexandriaMervyn ArchdallBattle of AlexandriaFrenchsiege of Cairosiege of AlexandriaWalcheren CampaignLisbonFrederick Ponsonbysiege of Ciudad Rodrigosiege of BadajozBattle of VillagarciaPeninsular WarBattle of Salamancasiege of BurgosBattle of Vitoriasiege of San SebastiánFranceBattle of NivelleCalaisWaterloo CampaignSir John VandeleurBattle of WaterlooUnion BrigadeWaterlooCharge of the Light BrigadeBattle of BalaclavaIndian RebellionSecond Anglo-Afghan War11th Earl of AirlieBattle of Diamond HillSouth AfricaSecond Boer Warrelief of KimberleyBattle of PaardebergCape TownBombayAmbalaPunjabGeorge WrightNorwich5th Cavalry Brigade2nd Cavalry DivisionWestern FrontMoÿ-de-l'AisneGreat Retreat9th/12th Royal LancersLanchester 6×4 armoured carsarmoured carsRoyal Tank Corps11th HussarsTidworthlorriesSaar regionItalian invasion of AbyssiniaMorris Light Reconnaissance CarsMorris CS9armoured car regimentcampaign in France and FlandersMalo-les-BainsdredgersBeaverettesHumbersPort Tewfik1st Armoured DivisionSecond Battle of El AlameinItalian CampaignPalestineMalayaMalayan EmergencyHerfordWolfenbüttelCyprusDerby Museum and Art GalleryKing Edward VIIIPhineas Bowles (senior)Phineas Bowles (junior)John MordauntJames CholmondeleyWilliam Augustus PittGeorge Lane ParkerSir James SteuartSir William Payne, Bt.Colquhoun GrantHussey Vivian, 1st Baron VivianHenry John CummingLovell Benjamin BadcockThomas Hooke PearsonArthur Lyttelton-AnnesleyWilliam Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood