Photos of the 12th Lancers,
during the reign of Queen Victoria
12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's)
Raised in 1715 as Bowles Dragoons, later becoming the 12th (The Prince
of Wales's) Royal Lancers in 1817.
Battle Honours to the Regiments.
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1808 - 1814, Peninsula war, at Salamanca,
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1815, battle of Waterloo
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1851 - 1853 Eighth Kaffir War
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1854 - 1855. Crimean war., at Sebastopol
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1857 - 1858 Indian Mutiny
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1899 - 1902, Boer War, at relief of Kimberley, Paardeburg
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1914 - 1918 First World war, at
Mons, retreat from Mons, Marne, Aisne, Messines, Ypres, Arras, Cambrai, Somme 1918, Sambre
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1939 - 1945, Second World war,
Dyle, Dunkirk, 1940, and
between 1941 to 1943, in North Africa at Chor es Sufan, Gazala, El
Alamein, Tunis, and in Italy 1944 - 1945, at Bologna.
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