Walker & Burstall Ph. Sc.

Lieutenant General

Sir Drury C. Drury-Lowe, K.C.B.

Colonel, 17th. Lancers. 1892.

The regiment remained at Lucknow until the expiration of its 1890. term of Indian service, embarking for England on H.M.S. Serapis on the 9th October 1890. One squadron was disembarked at Suez for duty with the army of occupation in Egypt, and was quartered at Abbasiyeh near Cairo. The remaining troops disembarked at Portsmouth on the 3rd of November. Of the non-commissioned officers and men who went out with the regiment to the Zulu War in 1879, just thirty returned with it in 1890; yet this was not due to death, for the Seventeenth lost but seventy men from disease during its last period of Indian service, an astonishing contrast to its former experiences in the times of the Pindari War and the Mutiny. 1891. For a year after its return the Seventeenth was quartered at Shorncliffe, where it was rejoined in November 1891 by the squadron that had been detached to Egypt, and then resumed the usual round of home service. 1892. The following year was marked by the successful introduction of the “squadron organisation,” which had been already tried in 1869.

In January General Benson died, and the colonelcy of the regiment fell vacant. And as for the present we must close the history of the Seventeenth Lancers at this point, we cannot more fitly end it than with the name of General Benson’s successor, the fifteenth and not the least Colonel of the regiment, Sir Drury Curzon Drury Lowe, K.C.B.

APPENDIX A
A LIST OF THE OFFICERS OF THE 17TH LIGHT DRAGOON LANCERS

Note.—The constant variation in the spelling of names in the earlier years of the regiment has made the preservation of uniformity in this respect a matter of great difficulty. I am still in doubt as to the correct method of spelling many names, and I can only plead that these doubts were shared by the owners of the names themselves.

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