TWELFTH LANCERS.
The Regiment was raised in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, and Hampshire.
It received its title and badges of the Prince’s Plume, the Rising Sun, and the Red Dragon, in 1768, in honour of the Prince of Wales.
It bears “the Sphinx” for Egypt 1801, where it captured a French convoy with Colours.
It has been nicknamed “the Supple Twelfth.”