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Bengal Lancers may refer to numerous regiments of the British Indian Army, many continuing in the Indian Army. Individual units. 1st Bengal Lancers;
The Origin and History of the Bengal Lancers. The Great Depression of the early 1930’s was hard on Trinity University. Delivering a second blow, cotton prices collapsed. These two economic catastrophes hit Trinity especially hard. Many families could not afford the “luxury” of sending their children to college.
The three regiments of Hodson's Horse became two in 1860 when the third regiment was disbanded. The 1st and 2nd Regiments soon became the 9th and 10th Bengal Cavalry. The first overseas posting for the 9th was Malta, in 1878, and then the Sudan in 1885 in which year they became Lancers. The regiment then served in Chitral in 1895-7.
The 18th King George’s Own Lancers in the First World War. Lineage: Raised by Captain F. H. Smith at Gwalior (Madhya Pradesh, India) as the 2nd Regiment of Mahratta Horse in 1858. In 1861 it became the 18th Regiment of Bengal Cavalry, then the 18th Regiment of Bengal Lancers in 1886.
18th Bengal Lancers. Raising of the Regiment. The Indian Mutiny of 1857 caused the British to restructure the Indian army, and the General Officer Commanding the Gwalior Division, Sir Robert Napier, to quell the rebellion, needed more cavalry. So Captain F H Smith was appointed to raise a regiment of irregular horse at Morar.
The 11th (King Edward’s Own) Lancers (Probyn’s Horse) was stationed at Delhi when the First World War broke out in August 1914. The Regiment was inspected by Brigadier-General J. M. Edwards, Commanding Meerut (Cavalry) Brigade on 19 January 1914: Drill, manoeuvre, musketry and signalling satisfactory. Stable management might be improved on ...
Francis Ingall. Pen and Sword, Jan 1, 1989 - History - 256 pages. One of the last of the famed Bengal Lancers, Brigadier Ingall has spent most of his life in India and Pakistan. When he first went to India in 1929, all the officers were English and all the enlisted men were Indian (Hindu, Sikh and Moslem). India was part of theBritish Empire ...
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