5th Royal Irish Lancers [UK]

Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills

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Page created 15 July 2000. Corrected and updated 14.02.2005

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	5th Royal Irish Lancers
crest and tie by A. Melville-Brown	United Kingdom

Titles & Lineage

History

Battle Honours

Colours, Standards & Guidons

Uniforms & Badges

Colonels-in-Chief

Colonels


	1689.06.20	James Wynne's Regiment of Dragoons ranked as 6th Dragoons; also known until 1751 by names of other colonels
	1690	ranked as 5th Dragoons
	1704	Royal Dragoons of Ireland
	1751.07.01	5th Regiment of Dragoons
	1756	5th (or Royal Irish) Regiment of Dragoons
	1799.04.08	disbanded at Chatham

	1858.02.23	5th (or Royal Irish) Regiment of Dragoons re-formed, resuming old number, but losing precedence and ranking after 17th Lancers
		5th (or Royal Irish) Regiment of Dragoons (Lancers)
	1861.08.17	5th (or Royal Irish) Lancers
		5th (Royal Irish) Lancers
	1921.01.01	5th Royal Irish Lancers
	1921.07	disbanded
	1922.04.11	squadron reconstituted and concurrently amalgamated with 16th The Queen's Lancers, to form 16th/5th Lancers


		Deployment and Service
		The 5th Royal Irish Lancers, by Ciaran Byrne.
		The Lancers, by Chris Baker (The British Army in the Great War)
		British Cavalry Regiments, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath 1914-1918)


	Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde, Malplaquet, Suakin 1885, Defence of Ladysmith, South Africa 1899-1902 The Great War: Mons, Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914, Messines 1914, Ypres 1914 '15, Gheluvelt, St. Julien, Bellewaarde, Arras 1917, Scarpe 1917, Cambrai 1917, Somme 1918, St. Quentin, Amiens, Hindenburg Line, Canal du Nord, Pursuit to Mons, France and Flanders 1914-18

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	1689.06.20	Brig-Gen. James Wynne
	1695.07.16	Gen. Hon. Charles Ross
	1715.10.08	Col. Hon. Thomas Sydney
	1729.02.01	Gen. Hon. Charles Ross [reappointed]
	1732.08.06	Lt-Gen. Owen Wynne
	1737.06.27	F.M. Richard (Molesworth), 3rd Viscount Molesworth
	1758.10.18	Gen. John Mostyn
	1760.11.27	Gen. Hon. Sir Joseph (Yorke), 1st Baron Dover, KB
	1787.04.04	Gen. The Rt. Hon. Robert (Cuninghame), 1st Baron Rossmore, PC [to 1799; also 14th Foot, 124th Foot; CinC Ireland]

	1858.02.23	Gen. Sir James Charles Chatterton, Bt., GCB, KH
	1868.11.22	Gen. Edward Pole
	1872.01.01	Gen. Henry Darby Griffith, CB
	1887.11.18	Lt-Gen. Sir Somerset John (Gough-Calthorpe), Bt., 7th Baron Calthorpe, KCB
	1892.01.24	Lt-Gen. Hon. Charles Wemyss Thesiger
	1896.10.04	Lt-Gen. William Godfrey Dunham Massy, CB
	1906.09.21	Maj-Gen. Thomas Arhur Cooke, CVO
	1908.04.07	Maj-Gen. Sir Henry Jenner Scobell, KCVO, CB
	1912.02.03	F.M. Sir Edmund Henry Hynman (Allenby), 1st Viscount Allenby, GCB, GCMG, GCVO [continued 1922 in 16th/5th Lancers]


		Victoria Crosses, by Mike Chapman (VC Reference).
		VCs in the Queen's Royal Lancers Regimental Museum, by Iain Stewart.
		Victoria Cross winners of the 5th Royal Irish Lancers, by Ciaran Byrne


	Motto:	Quis separabit?
	Nicknames:	The Redbreasts [from the colour of the plastron]; Daily Advertisers
	Anniversaries:
	Freedoms:
	Marches:	slow: Let Erin Remember + The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls
		unofficial (ca. 1902): The Wearing of the Green
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		The Queen's Royal Lancers Regimental Museum, Belvoir Castle, Grantham (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)
		The Queen's Royal Lancers Regimental Museum, Grantham (Simonides listing)