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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 with the 5th Royal Irish Lancers to form the 16th/5th Lancers in 1922.
The Hungerford massacre was a spree shooting in Wiltshire and Berkshire, United Kingdom, which occurred on 19 August 1987 when 27-year-old Michael Ryan shot and killed sixteen people, including an unarmed police officer and his own mother, before killing himself. No firm motive for the killings has been established.
The regiment was formed at Lucknow in India by the amalgamation of the 16th The Queen's Lancers and the 5th Royal Irish Lancers on 11 April 1922. [1] It moved to the United Kingdom in 1926 but returned to India in 1936 and was based there when the Second World War started. [2]
The French army did not have lancer regiments as such, but steel lances 2.97 meters (9.7 ft) in length were carried by the twenty-six dragoon regiments and some light cavalry units in 1914. The French had earlier tested the Indian bamboo lances used by the British cavalry, but had rated them as being too fragile for the shock of encounter. [8]
By 8 August at least 200 people had been sentenced with 177 imprisoned, [40] to an average sentence of around two years and up to a nine-years. [41] As of 1 September 1,280 arrests and nearly 800 charges had been made in relation to the unrest. [31] The riots began in Southport, just a few streets away from where the attack took place.
16 August 1980 Denmark Place fire: London, England 37: An arson attack against a nightclub on Denmark Street by patron who was angry at being barred from the club for arguing with a barman. Described - prior to the Lockerbie bombing - as the deadliest mass murder in modern British history. 19 August 1987 Hungerford massacre: Hungerford, England ...
SS functionary Walter Schellenberg said he had compiled the Black Book. The list was similar to earlier lists prepared by the SS, [6] such as the Special Prosecution Book-Poland (German: Sonderfahndungsbuch Polen) prepared before the Second World War by members of the German fifth column in cooperation with German Intelligence, and used to target the 61,000 Polish people on this list during ...
With the prohibition on both centrefire [16] and small-bore pistols [17] in 1997, [18] visitor numbers from air gun and rifle shooters to the centre were insufficient to cover the operating costs, resulting in the Association's commercial subsidiary seeking other sources of income, including wedding receptions and a long-term deal that saw the ...