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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 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 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'.
Polish lancers served with distinction in the Austrian, Prussian, Russian, and French armies, most famously in Napoleon's French Imperial Guard as the 1er Regiment de Chevau-Legers-Lanciers de la Garde Impériale. The charge of the British 16th Lancers at Aliwal on 28 January 1846, during the Anglo-Sikh war
The Lancers in Italy during the Second World War' is a brief combat history of the British Queen's Royal Lancers during the Italian campaign. In May 1943, after the successful North African campaign, the 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers and the 17th/21st Lancers, as part of the 26th Armoured Brigade of the 6th Armoured Division, moved to Italy.
His period in command of the 16th Lancers now expired, he briefly went on half pay on 19 December 1910, still as a lieutenant-colonel and brevet colonel. [37] On 1 January 1911 was granted the temporary rank of brigadier-general [38] and appointed General Officer Commanding 3rd Cavalry Brigade, which included the 16th Lancers, at the Curragh ...
The 16th Lancers then attacked a large body of Sikh infantry. These were battalions organised and trained in contemporary European fashion by Neapolitan mercenary, Paolo Di Avitabile. They formed square to establish a strong front against a cavalry charge, as most European armies did. Nevertheless, the 16th Lancers broke the square.
Sykes was commissioned into the 16th Lancers, but transferred to the 2nd Dragoon Guards in 1888. [7] He was posted to India and made several journeys through Persia and Baluchistan . When he was a second lieutenant, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in November 1891. [ 8 ]