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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.
It was formed by the amalgamation of the 16th The Queen's Lancers and the 5th Royal Irish Lancers in 1922. The reason for the uniquely atypical regimental title (with a higher number preceding a lower) was that the 5th had been re-raised in 1858 almost 60 years after being disbanded, and when re-raised took precedence after the 17th Lancers .
16 16th (Queen's) Lancers: 1759 [30] 1922: 16th/5th Lancers: Royal Lancers: 17 ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; ...
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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'.
He left Southampton on board the SS Norman in early February 1900, [7] and arrived in South Africa the following month. Later that year, he was promoted to brigadier general and in November 1900 appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) for his services [ 8 ] (he was invested by King Edward VII at Marlborough House on 25 July ...
[2] [3] His sisters Ella Sykes and Ethel Sykes were both writers. [4] His father, William was the second son of Richard Sykes, of Edgeley House, Stockport , owner of the Sykes Bleaching Company ; Percy Sykes was thus the nephew of Richard Sykes the rugby player who founded towns in America, and cousin of Sir Alan Sykes, 1st Baronet who was MP ...
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