16th The Queen's Lancers [UK]

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Page created 1 August 2000. Corrected and updated 10.11.2004

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	16th The Queen's Lancers
crest and tie by A. Melville-Brown	United Kingdom

Titles & Lineage

History

Battle Honours

Colours, Standards & Guidons

Uniforms & Badges

Colonels-in-Chief

Colonels


	1715.07.22	The Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Dragoons ranked as 16th Dragoons; named for the future King George II; also known as Churchill's Dragoons
	1718.11	disbanded

	1759.08.04	16th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons raised in southern England; also called Burgoyne's Light Horse, claiming no lineal descent from previous regiment
	1763.03.18	regularised
	1766.05.26	2nd (or The Queen's) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (named for Queen Charlotte)
	1769	16th (or The Queen's) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
	1816.09.30	16th (The Queen's) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Lancers)
	1861.08.17	16th (or Queen's) Lancers
	1905.02.01	16th (The Queen's) Lancers
	1921.01.01	16th The Queen's Lancers
	1922.04.11	amalgamated with 5th Royal Irish Lancers* to form* 16th/5th Lancers


		Deployment and Service
		The Lancers, by Chris Baker (The British Army in the Great War)
		British Cavalry Regiments, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath 1914-1918)


	Beaumont, Willems, Talavera, Fuentes d'Onor, Salamanca, Vittoria, Nive, Peninsula, Waterloo, Bhurtpore, Ghuznee 1839, Affghanistan 1839, Maharajpore, Aliwal, Sobraon, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, South Africa 1900-02 The Great War: Mons, Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914, Messines 1914, Armentières 1914, Ypres 1914 '15, Gheluvelt, St. Julien, Bellewaarde, Arras 1917, Scarpe 1917, Cambrai 1917, Somme 1918, Amiens, Hindenburg Line, Canal du Nord, Pursuit to Mons, France and Flanders 1914-18

Badges:

Uniform:


	1905.06.08	F.M. HM Alfonso XIII, King of Spain, KG, GCVO


	1715.07	Lt-Gen. Charles Churchill
	1717.07.17	Sir Charles Hotham

	1763.03.18	Lt-Gen. John Burgoyne
	1779.10.20	F.M. William (Harcourt), 3rd Earl Harcourt, GCB
	1830.06.18	Gen. Sir John Ormsby Vandeleur, GCB
	1849.11.10	Lt-Gen. Sir Joseph Thackwell, GCB, KH
	1859.04.09	Gen. Hon. Sir Edward Cust, Bt., KCH
	1878.01.15	Gen. Sir Charles Cameron Shute, KCB
	1886.03.28	Gen. Sir Charles John Foster, KCB
	1896.02.12	Lt-Gen. William Thomas Dickson
	1909.08.20	Lt-Gen. Sir James Melville Babington, KCB, KCMG


		Victoria Crosses, by Mike Chapman (VC Reference).
		VCs in the 13th/18th Royal Hussars Regimental Museum, by Iain Stewart.


	Motto:
	Nicknames:
	Anniversaries:	Aliwal (28 Jan.)
	Freedoms:
	Marches:	quick: The English Patrol
		slow: The 16th Lancers (said to have been composed in Austria and presented to regt by Queen Charlotte)
		at end of band concerts (1905): Marcha Real (Spanish national anthem, in honour of Colonel-in-Chief)
	Musicians:
	*Mascot:*
	*Miscellaneous Tradition Links:*


		16th (The Queen's) Light Dragoons [American War of Independence; USA]


		The Queen's Royal Lancers Regimental Museum, Belvoir Castle, Grantham (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)
		The Queen's Royal Lancers Regimental Museum, Grantham (Simonides listing)
		16th Lancers Indian Memorial, Exeter Cathedral