Photo of the Day: Lancers Training in Downtown Framingham

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FRAMINGHAM – The lancers conducted training in downtown Framingham yesterday, March 6.

The purpose was to “help acclimate our horses to the sounds & terrain of the city,” said the Lancers.

The National Lancers are the Commonwealth’s ceremonial cavalry squadron and is a unit in the Massachusetts Organized Militia.

The National Lancers were organized in 1836 and have been awarded 17 campaign streamers for service during the Civil War and World War I. In 1920, the National Lancers became a ceremonial unit that participates in parades, patriotic events such as the reenactment of the rides of Paul Revere on William Dawes on Patriots Day.

The squadron is stationed at Camp DiCarlo in Framingham, where it maintains an active training schedule.

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