Regiment and Museum

The Queen's Royal Lancers is a serving armoured regiment based in Catterick, with Her Majesty the Queen as its Colonel-in-Chief. The cap badge is known as 'the motto' - death or glory - because of the skull and crossed bones above 'or glory'. The six cavalry regiments amalgamated to form The Queen's Royal Lancers are: the 5th, 16th, 17th and 21st Lancers, the 16th/5th Lancers and the 17th/21st Lancers.

Video Introduction

A video introduction by the curator, Captain Mick Holtby.

Our current online video documentaries include the Charge of the Light Brigade and the Battle of Fondouk. We are also producing a series on our most significant museum artefacts. Click to see our videos.

Virtual Tour

Our collection of arms, uniforms, medals, silver and paintings illustrate the regiments' part in the great battles of the last three centuries. It includes artefacts from the American War of Independence, the Battle of Waterloo, the Charge at Aliwal,the Charge of the Light Brigade, the Zulu War, the Indian Mutiny, the Charge at Omdurman, the Boer War, the Great War, the Second World War and the Gulf War.

We invite you into our treasury of artefacts that bring history to life, to discover the intriguing history of our regiments and examine our most fascinating items. Move through a series of 'rooms' and see an original 'red-coat' as worn during the American War of Independence, a tin of chocolate from the Boer War, and the bugle blown to sound the Charge of the Light Brigade. Click to start your virtual tour.

Regimental History

Our Full Histories cover all of our antecedent regiments - the 5th, 16th, 17th and 21st Lancers, the 16th/5th Lancers, the 17th/21st Lancers - and includes a history-so-far of The Queen's Royal Lancers. Click to go straight to the history pages.

Research

Was your ancestor a Lancer? Our archives might hold information on your ancestor, and perhaps a photograph. For details of how to research a soldier's Army service, and how to access our archives, visit the research page. There is also information on our educational program and our learning packs available for loan to schools.