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Table of Contents

The Plume of the Prince

of Wales.

The Rising Sun.

The Red Dragon.

TITLES.

1715–51. Colonel Phineas Bowles's [or its Colonel's name] Regiment of Dragoons.

1751–68. The 12th Dragoons.

1768–1816. The 12th (The Prince of Wales's) Light Dragoons.

1816–17. The 12th (The Prince of Wales's) Lancers.

1817 (from). The 12th (The Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers.

PRINCIPAL CAMPAIGNS, BATTLES, &c.

* "Honours" on the Colours.

1795. Corsica.

*1801. Egypt.

1801. Aboukir.

1801. Mandora.

1801. Alexandria.

1809. Walcheren.

*1811–14. Peninsula.

1812. Salamanca.

1813. Vittoria.

1814. Bayonne.

*1815. Waterloo.

1815. Netherlands.

*1851–53. South Africa.

1855. Eupatoria.

*1855. Sevastopol.

1858. Indian Mutiny.

*1858. Central India.

1900. South Africa.

Uniform.—Scarlet (1715–84); Blue (1784–1830); Scarlet (1830–42); Blue (from 1842). Facings, White (1715–68); Black (1768–84); Yellow (1784–1817); Scarlet (1817–30); Blue (1830–42); Scarlet (from 1842). Plume, Scarlet.

Regimental Badges.—"Plume of the Prince of Wales," "The Rising Sun," "The Red Dragon" (in honour of the Prince of Wales, afterwards George IV., whose crests they were); also "The Sphinx," for Egypt (1801).

Nickname.—"The Supple Twelfth."

Notes.—Originally raised in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Hampshire, it served in Ireland, from 1717, for seventy-six years. In Egypt it captured a French Convoy with Colours.

Bibliography.—Historical Record of the 12th, Prince of Wales's Royal Regiment of Lancers. 1715–1842. Illustrated with a plate. [London: Parker. 1842]

The Sphinx.