On the 20th of August, 1822, His Majesty King George IV. was pleased to approve of the regiment being equipped as a corps of "Lancers."
On the decease of General Oliver de Lancey, the colonelcy of the regiment was conferred on Major-General Lord Robert Edward Henry Somerset, K.C.B., from the late Twenty-first Light Dragoons, by commission dated the 9th of September, 1822.
Leaving the men who had volunteered into other corps at Kaira, the regiment commenced its march for Cambay, in November, and embarked at that place in boats for Bombay, where it arrived in December.
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1823
On the 9th of January, 1823, the regiment sailed for England; arriving at Gravesend, on the 18th of May, it landed and marched to Chatham, where it was joined by Lieut.-Colonel Stanhope and Captain Adams, who had returned to England over-land, via Egypt. At Chatham the Seventeenth returned their carbines into store, and were armed with Lances, and the officers and soldiers commenced wearing moustaches.
1824
The regiment was recruited to 311 men by the 1st of January, 1824; in June it marched to London, and was stationed a short time in the Regent's Park barracks, during the absence of the Life Guards for the purpose of being reviewed. In July the head-quarters removed to Canterbury.
1825