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  • Letter from the Chairman of the RLOCA

    25th January 2021

    25 Jan 2021   Dear Old Comrades and Veteran Lancers, ‘Tank Tea’ – Thu 28 Jan 2021 at 1700-1800 hrs (the New Time).  Remembering,…

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  • Aliwal

    25th January 2021

    The Charge at Aliwal 29th January 1846 The lance was first adopted by the cavalry of the British Army in 1816, after its effect…

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  • BBC Last Word – James Nash 12L

    13th November 2020

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  • Webinar October 2020 Q&A

    27th October 2020
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  • El Alamein RL Emblazoned Battle Honour

    21st October 2020

    El Alamein October 1942, 9L and 12L   Preparations for the next offensive now pre-occupied the 9th Lancers and 12th Lancers which were now…

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  • Chapka 2018

    14th September 2020
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  • Amalgamation 9L & 12L 60th Anniversary

    10th September 2020

    60th Anniversary of the amalgamation between 9th Queen’s Royal Lancers and 12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales’s)  at Tidworth on  Sunday 11th September 1960….

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  • Battle of Blenheim 13th August 1704

    14th August 2020

    The Battle of Blenheim 13th August 1704 (2nd August using the dating system used in England pre 1752) James Wynn’s Regiment of Dragoons (later…

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  • Reverend James William Adams VC, Attached 9th (The Queen’s Royal) Lancers

    10th July 2020

    Reverend James Williams Adams was 40 years old, and a chaplain in the Bengal Ecclesiastical Department(serving as chaplain to the Kabul Field Force), British…

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  • Private George William Burdett Clare VC, 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers

    10th July 2020

    William Clare was born on 18th May 1889 at St Ives, Huntingdonshire. He won the Victoria Cross at Bourlon Wood in France on 29th…

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