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35: 713: 696: 368: 679: 92: 74: 357: 310: 620:: Kasserine, Fondouk, Kairouan, Bordj, Djebel Kournine, Tunis, Gromballa, Bou Ficha, North Africa 1942-43, Cassino II, Liri Valley, Monte Piccolo, Capture of Perugia, Arezzo, Advance to Florence, Argenta Gap, Traghetto, Italy 1944-45 653:: Tebourba Gap, Bou Arada, Kasserine, Thala, Fondouk, El Kourzia, Tunis, Hammam Lif, North Africa 1942-43, Cassino II, Monte Piccolo, Capture of Perugia, Advance to Florence, Argenta Gap, Fossa Cembalina, Italy 1944-45 609:: Mons, Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914, Messines 1914, Ypres 1914 '15, Bellewaarde, Arras 1917, Cambrai 1917, Somme 1918, St. Quentin, Pursuit to Mons 642:: Festubert, Somme 1916 '18, Morval, Cambrai 1917 '18, St. Quentin, Avre, Hazebrouck, Amiens, Pursuit to Mons, France and Flanders 1914-18, N.W. Frontier India 1915 '16 1465: 933: 479: 1060: 1439: 1460: 292: 418: 980: 954: 1121: 399: 1094: 1016: 510:, below which is a ribbon containing the words 'Or Glory'. This comes from the 17th/21st Lancers, and was the cap badge of the 502:
and was known as "the motto". This was the combined cap badges of the two antecedent regiments, and features a pair of crossed
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Alma, Balaklava, Inkerman, Sevastopol, Central India, South Africa 1879, Khartoum, South Africa 1900-02
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After amalgamation of 16th/5th Lancers and the 17th/21st Lancers into the Queens' Royal Lancers:
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would amalgamate with the Queen's Royal Lancers to form a single regiment, the
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reforms intended to reduce the size of the British Army in line with the
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From its formation, the regiment served in the armoured role with first
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The regiment's nickname, the 'Death or Glory Boys', came from their
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Combined honours before amalgamation of 17th and 21st Lancers:
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Combined honours before amalgamation of 16th and 5th Lancers:
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The regiment was formed in 1993 by the amalgamation of the
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The Royal Lancers and Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Museum
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of the army, the regiment started converting to the
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QRL Motto (Cap badge of The Queen's Royal Lancers).
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Index

9th Queen's Royal Lancers

United Kingdom
British Army
Royal Armoured Corps
Prince William of Gloucester Barracks
Grantham
Catterick
Battle of the Boyne
War of the Spanish Succession
American Revolution
Napoleonic Wars
Crimean War
Battle of Balaclava
Indian Mutiny
Mahdist War
South Africa
World War I
World War II
Iraq War
War in Afghanistan
HM The Queen
Patrick Marriott
CB
CBE

cavalry regiment
British Army
9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's)
Royal Lancers

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