12TH ROYAL LANCERS IN FRANCE, AUGUST 17TH 1914 - NOVEMBER 11TH 1918
\n\n12TH ROYAL LANCERS IN FRANCE, AUGUST 17TH 1914 - NOVEMBER 11TH 1918\n\n12TH ROYAL LANCERS IN FRANCE, AUGUST 17TH 1914 - NOVEMBER 11TH 1918\n\nThe frontispiece photo of this book says it all: it shows the 23 officers of the 12th battalion, Royal Lancers, grim faced and determined as they set off for France in August 1914. Four years later when the Great War ended in November 1918 , seven of the 23 (30 percent) have been killed \u2013 a very high fatal casualty rate. This brief history of the 12th Lancers \u2013 the only one of the unit\u2019s role in the Great War \u2013 is, as Lt. Gen. Sir Philip Chetwode writes in his foreword \u2013 too brief, but it is a moving memorial to the men in that picture who did not return, written by one of their comrades who did. The 12th were rushed out to France with the rest of the BEF at the outbreak of war, arriving on August 17th in time to take part in the autumn battles as cavalry before the trench lines solidified. Later, unmounted,;
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