12th (Prince of Wales's Royal ) Lancers

Egypt Campaign 1801 & The Peninsula War 1808 - 1814  "Light Dragoons"

Military General Service Medal.  1793 - 1814 clasp:

Three officers with some clasps awarded for service with other units have been omitted.

Battle Honour: Salamanca; Peninsula

Battle of Waterloo 1815

Waterloo Medal 1815

Casualties 16th, 17th & 18th June 1815 (extracted London Gazette 8/7/1815 & "Medals of the British Army: And how they were won" T. Carter 1861*)

Officers:1 Lieutenant and 1 Cornet killed; 1 Lieutenant-Colonel, 1 Captain and 1 Lieutenant wounded.

*Sergeants, Trumpeters, Drummers, Farriers and Rank and File:

Horses: 28 killed, 22 wounded, 60 missing.

*Carter's figures are in turn  extracted from the return prepared by the Adjutant-Generals office, 13th April 1816.

Battle Honour;  Waterloo.

8th Kaffir War  1850-53*.  Regiment arrived in theatre October 1851 

South Africa Medal 1834-53

*One individual , Pte James Brown also served in the 7th Kaffir War with the 73rd Regiment

Battle Honours: South Africa 1851-2.

Crimean War  1854 - 1856       

Crimea Medal 1854 -56

Men who served in the Crimea also eligible for:

Turkish Crimea Medal 1855

Battle Honours: ; Sebastopol.

Indian Mutiny 1857-59 

India Mutiny Medal. 1857 -59

Battle Honour: Central India

South African War 1899 - 1902 or "Boer War"  (November 1899 to the end of the war)

Queen's South Africa Medal 1899-1902, with or without the King's South Africa Medal 1901 - 1902

*SA01/02 numbers only relate to the Queen's South Africa Medal.

** men listed with other units but who had some service noted with the 12 L  are not included

Casualties:

Battle Honours:  Relief of Kimberley; Paardeburg; South Africa 1899-1902.

The Great War 1914 - 1918 Served France and Flanders.

To France and Flanders (from the UK) August 1914, 5th Cavalry Brigade (independent)  6th September 1914 Brigade transferred to Gough's Command; Gough's command becoming 2nd Cavalry Division 16th September 1914. Regiment remained in this brigade and division for the duration.

Soldiers/Officers died records 149 casualties for the period.

Men landed France and Flanders prior to 1/1/1916 entitled to a 1914 or 1914-15 Star as appropriate. Also the British War Medal & Victory Medal

Battle Honours: Mons; Retreat from Mons; Marne 1914; Aisne 1914; Messines 1914; Ypres 1914, 1915; Arras 1917; Cambrai 1917, 1918; Somme 1918; Sambre. Neuve Chapelle; St Julien; Bellewaarde; Scarpe 1917; St Quentin; Lys; Hazebrouck; Amiens; Albert 1918; Hindenburg Line; St Quentin Canal; Beaurevoir; France and Flanders 1914-18.

WW2 1939 - 1945 (Royal Armoured Corps)

Most also entitled to the 39-45 Star & 1939-45 War Medal

Note: a detachment of the 12th Lancers was used as the nucleus for the formation of the 27th Lancers.

Battle Honours:  Dyle; Dunkirk 1940; North-West Europe 1940; Chor es Sufan; Gazala; El Alamein; Tunis; North Africa 1941-3; Bologna; Italy 1944-5. Defence of Arras; Arras Counter-attack; Alam el Haifa; Advance on Tripoli; Tebaga Gap; El Hamma; Akarit; El Kourzia; Djebel Kournine; Creteville Pass; Citerna; Gothic Line; Capture of Forli; Conventello-Comacchio; Sillaro Crossing; Idice Bridgehead.

The Malaya Emergency: Operations against Communist insurgents. 1948-60  (1951)

General Service Medal 1918 - 62

The Cyprus Emergency 1955 - 1960  (June 1958- June 1960)

General Service Medal 1918-62

COs: Lt. Col D.A. St G. Laurie & Lt. Col. A. J. Clark Kennedy.