27th Lancers

For the drum corps, see 27th Lancers Drum and Bugle Corps.

27th Lancers
Cap Badge of the 27th Lancers ca 1941
Active	1941–1945
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	British Army
Type	Cavalry Regiment
Role	Reconnaissance
Size	1 Regiment

The 27th Lancers was a British Army cavalry regiment from 1941 to 1945.

History

The regiment was raised in June 1941 from a cadre of personnel taken from the 12th Royal Lancers. It was assigned to the 11th Armoured Division as the divisional reconnaissance regiment. It was later withdrawn and held under command of GHQ.

Armoured cars of the 27th Lancers, 11th Armoured Division, 19 April 1942. A scout car leads, followed by Daimler and Humber armoured cars, with more scout cars bringing up the rear.

In 1943, it was shipped to Egypt; in 1944 it moved to Italy, where it served as an independent reconnaissance regiment for the Allied Force Headquarters, and finished the war in Austria, where it was disbanded in August 1945. Some personnel were transferred to the 12th Lancers.

(In a film made in 1936 (The Charge of the Light Brigade), there was a fictional regiment called the 27th Lancers.)

References

• "27th (24th) Light Dragoons & 27th Lancers". Archived from the original on 3 January 2006.