Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 2 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge / 2016 / Paper 2 / 9 / c / Solution

Let $H$ be a proper subgroup. By Lagrange's theorem, $|H|$ divides $21=3\cdot 7$. Since $H\ne G$, its possibilities areThe subgroup of order one is generated by the identity and is cyclic. For either prime order $p=3$ or $7$, choose $h\in H$ other than the identity. Its order of a group element divides $p$ and is not one, so it is $p$. Thus its powers exhaust $H$, proving $H=⟨h⟩$.

ThereforeThis uses the fact that a group of prime order is cyclic. It does not require the order-21 group itself to be Abelian or cyclic.