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 Recce Strike Brigade Combat Team. The Royal Lancers...
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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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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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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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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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John Burgoyne (category 16th The Queen's Lancers officers)
general, dramatist and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1761 to 1792. He first saw action during the Seven Years' War when he participated in...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Waterford Barracks (category Barracks in the Republic of Ireland)
Irish Lancers, the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers, the 12th Royal Lancers, the 16th The Queen's Lancers, the 17th Lancers and the 21st Lancers. During the Irish...
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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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Thomas Hooke Pearson (category Companions of the Order of the Bath)
(by exchange) in the 16th The Queen's Lancers. In December 1843, he fought under Sir Hugh Gough at the Battle of Maharajpur during the Gwalior campaign...
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Thomas Westropp McMahon (category 16th The Queen's Lancers officers)
a cornetcy in the 16th Lancers on 24 December 1829, and was transferred to the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons the following year. In the latter regiment...
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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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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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Gloucester (The King's Royal Rifle Corps) Prince Arthur of Connaught (7th Queen's Own Hussars) Prince Adolphus, Duke of Teck (17th Lancers) Prince Francis...
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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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William Beckwith (category 16th The Queen's Lancers officers)
general in the British Army. He was the eldest son of William Beckwith of Trimdon, County Durham. In 1813 he enlisted as a cornet in the 16th Light Dragoons...
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15th (The King's) Hussars 16th (The Queen's) Lancers 17th (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Lancers 18th (Queen Mary's Own) Royal Hussars 19th (Queen Alexandra's...
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List of nicknames of British Army regiments (category Regiments of the British Army)
Guards (Queen's Bays) The Sandbags – Grenadier Guards The Scarlet Lancers – 16th The Queen's Lancers later 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers – the only...
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