Historical Enquiries

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

For routine enquiries a small fee of £5.00 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.

Four survivors of the Charge of the Light Brigade

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:

2nd Lieutenant 16th Lancers (WW1)


The Public Record Office,
Ruskin Avenue,
Kew,
Richmond,
Surrey
TW9 4DU
Tel. 0208 8763444
www.pro.gov.uk

The Army Records Centre,
Ministry of Defence,
Bourne Avenue,
Hayes,
Middlesex
UB3 1RF
Tel. 0208 5733831

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

Army Medals Office,
Government Buildings,
Worcester Road,
Droitwich,
Worcestershire
WR9 8AU
Tel. 01905 772323


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, NOT in Belvoir Castle.

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.

Sergeant Gallop 17th Lancers (Anglo Boer War)

New for 2003 - Was Your Grandfather A Soldier?

In association with four other military museums in the East Midlands, we have just concluded a three-year project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, to computerise references found in our archives to named individuals who served with our regiments.

This information is now available via a touch-screen computer located in our museum at Belvoir Castle. Visitors can discover whether any of their ancestors served with our antecedent regiments, and possibly find out more about them. If we have a photograph of an individual in our archives, this will be shown on-screen.

This new service will be available to Museum visitors from 17 April 2003. Work will continue on this project, so that every month we can add more information from our archives to the touchscreen computer.

Above: Sergeant Williams, 17th/21st Lancers. What is he looking so pleased about? - He has just received this new Sherman tank to replace his old Valentine

How To Make Your Historical Enquiry

To contact the Curator 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.