The Queen's Royal Lancers

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The Queen's Royal Lancers (The 'Death or Glory Boys') is an armoured regiment of the British Army. It was formed in 1993 by the amalgamation of two other regiments:

• 16th/5th Queen's Royal Lancers
• 17th/21st Lancers

From its formation, the regiment served in the armoured role with first Challenger 1, then Challenger 2. However, in 2005, as part of the re-organisation of the army, the regiment started converting for the formation reconnaissance role, re-equipping with the FV107 Scimitar armoured reconnaissance vehicle.

Contents

• 1 Organisation
• 2 Traditions
• 3 Battle Honours
• 4 Order of Precedence
• 5 External links

Organisation

The regiment is organised into a total of four squadrons, each of which perpetuates one of the antecedent regiments:

• 16th Lancer Squadron
• 17th Lancer Squadron
• 21st Lancer Squadron
• 5th Lancer Squadron

Traditions

The regiment's nickname, the 'Death or Glory Boys', comes from their cap badge (which in the regiment is called the 'motto'). This is the combined cap badges of the two antecedent regiments, and features a pair of crossed lances, from the 16th/5th Queen's Royal Lancers, together with a skull and crossbones, below which is a ribbon containing the words 'Or Glory'. This comes from the 17th/21st Lancers, and was the cap badge of the 17th Lancers (the original 'Death or Glory Boys').

Battle Honours

As well as the combined battle honours of the 16th/5th The Queens' Royal Lancers and 17th/21st Lancers

• Al Basrah, Iraq 2003

Order of Precedence

|- style="text-align: center;" | width="30%" |Preceded by:
The Light Dragoons | width="40%" style="text-align: center;" |Royal Armoured Corps
Order of Precedence | width="30%" |Succeeded by:
Royal Tank Regiment

External links

• [British Army: Queen's Royal Lancers]
• [Regimental homepage]

 

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