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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.
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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]
This is a list of numbered Regiments of Cavalry of the British Army from the mid-18th century until 1922 when various amalgamations were implemented. The Life Guards were formed following the end of the English Civil War as troops of Life Guards between 1658 and 1659. [1]
Includes commissioned officers of the 16th The Queen's Lancers regiment of the British Army. ... This page was last edited on 7 November 2007, at 14:16 (UTC).
The regiment's nickname, the 'Death or Glory Boys', came from their cap badge and was known as "the motto". [4] This was the combined cap badges of the two antecedent regiments, and features a pair of crossed lances, from the 16th/5th Queen's Royal Lancers, together with a skull and crossbones, below which is a ribbon containing the words 'Or Glory'.
Conrad Fulke Thomond O'Brien-ffrench, 2nd Marquis de Castelthomond (19 November 1893 [2] – 23 October 1986 [3]) was a distinguished British Secret Intelligence 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 Police. [4]
9th Queen's Royal Lancers; 10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own) 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own) 12th (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) 18th Hussars; 19th Hussars; 20th Hussars; 21st Hussars (Lancers from 1897)