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created 1 September 2000. Corrected and updated
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19th King
George V's Own Lancers
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| 1921 | 18th/19th
Lancers formed by amalgamation of 18th King George's Own Lancers, and 19th Lancers (Fane's Horse) |
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| 1927 | 19th King George's Own Lancers | |
| 1937 | 19th King George V's Own Lancers | |
| 1947.08 | allocated to Pakistan at partition and independence; Jat sqn transferred to The Central India Horse in exchange for its Punjabi Mussalman sqn; Sikh sqn transferred to Skinner's Horse in exchange for its Mussalman sqn | |
| 1956 | 19th Lancers | |
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Deployment and Service | |
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[combined battle honours of 18th King George's Own Lancers, and 19th Lancers (Fane's Horse), plus:] The Great War:1 Somme 1916, Bazentin, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Cambrai 1917, France and Flanders 1914-18, Megiddo, Sharon, Damascus, Palestine 1918 The Second World War: Buthidaung, Rangoon Road, Mayu Valley, Myebon, Kangaw, Ru-Yaw, Dalet, Tamandu, Burma 1942-45 1. awarded 1926 for services of predecessor regiments [q.v.] |
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| 1924.09.09 | F.M. HM King George V | |
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| 1945.12.12 | Maj.-Gen. R. Dening, CB, MVO, MC | |
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Pocock, J.G. The spirit of a regiment, being a history of the 19th King George V's Own Lancers, 1921-1947. Aldershot : Gale & Polden, 1962. | |
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19th King George 's Own Lancers : war news September 1939 - December 1945. [s.l. : s.n., ca. 1946] | |
