Research

As a service to the public, the QRL Museum will endeavour to answer historical enquiries concerning any aspect of the history of the 5th, 16th, 17th, 21st, 16th/5th, 17th/21st, and The Queen's Royal Lancers. Enquiries should be forwarded by email or post. Important: see the note below on service records.

For routine enquiries a fee of £15 is charged to cover research time, photocopying, postage, etc. Detailed enquiries may attract an additional fee, dependant on the research time involved; enquirers will be informed of the estimated cost and asked to confirm whether they wish the work to go ahead.

Note on service records and entitlement to medals

The Museum receives many enquiries asking for the service records of men who served with one of The Queen's Royal Lancers antecedent regiments.

Please note that we do not hold individual service records.These are held by The Public Record Office (for pre-Great War records) and the Army Records Office (for records from the Great War onwards). Their addresses are:

Pre 1922
The National Archive,
Ruskin Avenue,
Kew,
Richmond,
Surrey
TW9 4DU
Tel. 0208 8763444
www.pro.gov.uk

1922 Onwards
Historical Disclosures,
Army Personnel Centre,
Kentigern House,
65 Brown Street,
Glasgow
G2 8EX

For enquiries about entitlement to medals, enquirers should write (providing the claimant's name, date of birth, army number, regiment and discharge date) to:

MOD Medal Office,
RAF Innsworth,
Gloucester,
GL3 1EZ

Personal visits for research

Members of the public can gain access to the Regimental Archives to conduct their own research. Access is strictly by prior arrangement with the Curator. The Archives are located at Lancer House inside the Prince William of Gloucester Barracks, Grantham.

Contact us by email or post, giving details of your area of research and when you would like to visit, and we will let you know whether the Archives include relevant material. A small charge will be made at the time of your visit.

How to make your historical enquiry

To contact the museum by email: click here

By post:

Captain JM Holtby,
The Queen's Royal Lancers Museum,
Lancer House,
Prince William of Gloucester Barracks,
Grantham,
Lincolnshire
NG31 7TJ.