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Centenary of the Last Charges of the 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales’s)
By Philip Watson Crest Publications, Kettering, 2016, £12.99, 136pp, many ills, index ISBN: 078-0-9935977-0-1 Book review by Bob Wyatt The 12th Lancers (now part of The Royal Lancers), still celebrate annually Moy Day on the 28th August when, in 1914, during the retreat from Mons. In reading regimental histories, and viewing contemporary oil pai...
ONLINE: 'Le Moncel - Lance versus Lance' with Phil Watson
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The presentation will be live and online. On 7 September 1914, the 9th Lancers (2nd Cavalry Brigade) conducted the last lance versus lance charge on the Western Front. It took place at Le Moncel, just outside Paris, on what would become the end of the Retreat and the beginning of the Battle of the Marne. The commanding officer, and two troops...