9th/12th Royal Lancers (PoW)

We will not lie down and fade away, we will not be quiet, we will not be made in to dust, we have stood tall for nearly three hundred years, we don’t fade, we don’t go away, we are the 9^th/12^th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales’). 

We were at Waterloo, we are the Delhi Spearmen, have you heard about us?  We were with Wellington did you know, we were in the Crimea did you know that?  We have been to Afghanistan before and again we serve.  The South Africans know about us, do you?

World War One saw us on horses with Lance, the Germans knew us. Do you?

World War Two saw us near Dunkirk holding the line, at the Battle of Alamein and in Italy.  We have been to Northern Ireland once or twice, seen the desert sun and the forests of Europe, we are the 9^th/12^th Lancers do you know us?? We will not lie down, we will not fade away, we are the 9^th/12^th Lancers.