The 16th The Queen's Lancers was a cavalry regiment of the British Army, first raised in 1759. It saw service for two centuries, before being amalgamated...
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The 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers was a cavalry regiment of the British Army. It was formed by the amalgamation of the 16th The Queen's Lancers and...
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the First World War. It amalgamated with the 16th The Queen's Lancers to become the 16th/5th Lancers in 1922. The regiment was originally formed in 1689...
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to form the Royal Lancers. The regiment was formed in 1993 by the amalgamation of the 16th/5th Queen's Royal Lancers with the 17th/21st Lancers. From its...
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Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's) and the Queen's Royal Lancers on 2 May 2015. It serves in the 1st Deep Reconnaissance Strike Brigade Combat Team. The Royal...
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Claude Nicholson (British Army officer) (category 16th The Queen's Lancers officers)
the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. On being commissioned as an officer in 1916, he served with the 16th Lancers in France and Belgium during the First...
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Oswald Mosley (category 16th The Queen's Lancers officers)
student. During the First World War, he was commissioned into the British cavalry unit the 16th The Queen's Lancers and fought in France on the Western Front...
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21st Lancers in 1922 and, after service in the Second World War, it amalgamated with the 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers to form the Queen's Royal...
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previous (1850s) name of the Queen's Edinburgh Light Infantry Militia 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers, a cavalry regiment of the British Army formed in...
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John Burgoyne (category 16th The Queen's Lancers officers)
politician who sat in the British House of Commons from 1761 to 1792. As a member of the British Army he first saw action during the Seven Years' War when...
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Conrad O'Brien-ffrench (category World War I spies for the United Kingdom)
officer, captain in the Tipperary Rangers of the Royal Irish Regiment and 16th The Queen's Lancers in World War I, and Mountie for the Royal North-West Mounted...
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List of British Army regiments (1881) (category Regiments of the British Army)
(Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers 13th Hussars 14th King's Hussars 15th The King's Hussars 16th The Queen's Lancers 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own)...
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Regiment of (Light) Dragoons -> Lancers from 1816, 'Royal Regiment' from 1817 16th (Queen's) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons -> Lancers from 30 September 1816 19th...
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William Morris (British Army officer) (category 16th The Queen's Lancers officers)
June 1842 he was commissioned by purchase as a cornet in the 16th Light Dragoons (Lancers). The regiment was stationed in India, and Morris sailed from...
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regiment of the Royal Artillery in the British Army 16th The Queen's Lancers, a cavalry regiment in the British Army, first raised in 1759 16th Infantry...
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William Tomkinson (category 16th The Queen's Lancers officers)
31924088434059. Graham, Henry (1912). History of the Sixteenth, the Queen's, light dragoons (lancers), 1759 to 1912. Devizes: G. Simpson, printer. hdl:2027/mdp...
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John Luard (category 16th The Queen's Lancers officers)
Salamanca, and Toulouse. Afterwards he served with the 16th Light Dragoons as lieutenant at the battle of Waterloo (medal), and as captain at Bhurtpoor...
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Alexander Murray, 8th Earl of Dunmore (category 16th The Queen's Lancers officers)
accompanied the Dongola Expedition to the Sudan and saw action in the Mahdist War. In 1897, aged 26, while a lieutenant in the 16th Lancers, Murray returned...
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Alexander Tolmer (category 16th The Queen's Lancers officers)
1840, Tolmer was part of the punitive expedition to the Coorong after Aborigines massacred 25 shipwreck survivors from the ship Maria, which had been...
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Henry Hugh Peter Deasy (category 16th The Queen's Lancers officers)
officer, founder of the Deasy Motor Car Company and a writer. He was born in Dublin, the only surviving son of Rickard Deasy, justice of the Court of Appeal...
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Abraham Josias Cloëté (category 16th The Queen's Lancers officers)
joined the British Army as a cornet in the 16th Hussars. He transferred to the 15th Hussars on their return from Corunna, serving with them during the Burdett...
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James Melville Babington (category 16th The Queen's Lancers officers)
England, he was given the command of the Lowland Mounted Brigade from 1908 to 1913 and the Colonelcy of the 16th The Queen's Lancers in 1909, transferring...
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Thomas William Brotherton (category 16th The Queen's Lancers officers)
at the actions on the Côa, at Bussaco, Fuentes de Oñoro, Battle of Salamanca, where he was wounded, Vitoria, the Pyrenees, the Nivelle, and the Nive...
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George Clark (British Army officer) (category 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers officers)
from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, he was commissioned into the 16th The Queen's Lancers in September 1911 and fought with them during the First...
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Sir William Robertson, 1st Baronet (category 16th The Queen's Lancers soldiers)
trooper in the 16th (The Queen's) Lancers. As he was three months short of the official minimum age of eighteen, at the behest of the recruiting sergeant...
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Battle of Sobraon (category Pages using the JsonConfig extension)
from the Punjab by paying 750,000 pounds to the East India Company. 3rd King’s Own Light Dragoons 9th Queen’s Royal Light Dragoons (Lancers) 16th The Queen's...
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Edward Charles Cocks (category 16th The Queen's Lancers officers)
the Secretary of the State, Lord Bathurst, at 3 in the morning of the 8th of October 1812, "We had the misfortune to lose the Hon Major Cocks of the 79th...
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Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (category 16th The Queen's Lancers officers)
transferred to the command of the 16th Light Dragoons on 15 June 1795. Promoted to colonel on 3 May 1796, he was given command of the 7th Light Dragoons on 6...
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Guy Wyndham (category 16th The Queen's Lancers officers)
the writer Ada Leverson. His son with Violet Leverson was the writer and editor Francis Wyndham. Wyndham was commissioned into the 16th (the Queen's)...
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William Henry Sewell (category 16th The Queen's Lancers officers)
He then exchanged to the 16th Light Dragoons and rose through the ranks, via different regiments, to be lieutenant-colonel of the 6th Foot in 1817. He...
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