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Also known as '''16th Lancers'''.

== Chronology ==
*'''1759''' raised as the 16th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
*'''1766''' renamed the 2nd (or The Queen's) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
*'''1769''' renamed the 16th (The Queen's) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
*'''1816''' renamed the 16th (The Queen's) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Lancers)
*'''1861''' became the '''16th (The Queen's) Lancers'''
*'''1921''' retitled as the 16th The Queen's Lancers
*'''1922''' amalgamated with the [[5th Dragoons|5th Royal Irish Lancers]] to form the 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers
*'''1954''' became the 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers
*'''1993''' amalgamated with the 17th/21st Lancers to form The Queen's Royal Lancers

== Service in British India ==
[[Image:16th lancers aliwal memorial.jpg|thumb|250px|16th Lancers Aliwal memorial in Canterbury Cathedral]]
*'''1822''' India
*'''1825''' [[Jat War]] 
*'''1839''' [[1st Afghan War]] 
*'''1843''' [[Gwalior]]
*'''1844''' [[Meerut]] 
*'''1845''' [[1st Sikh War]], see below
:*[[Battle of Aliwal]]
*'''1865''' India 
*'''1890''' [[Lucknow]] 
*'''1897''' [[Umballa]] 
*'''1897''' [[:Category:North West Frontier Campaigns |North West Frontier]]

Due to the return of the 16th Lancers to England, on 1 November 1875 2 privates transferred to the [[13th Hussars]]<ref>  [https://www.pinetreeweb.com/13th-afghan-war.html The 13th Hussars in India & Afghanistan 1874-1884] pinetreeweb.com</ref>

===1st Sikh War===
The regiment fought in the [[Battle of Aliwal]] on the 28th January 1846, suffering many casualties.  Names of the fallen listed on the Aliwal memorial pictured can also be found on Stephen Lewis' memorials website ([http://www.angelfire.com/mp/memorials/sutcavz.htm list of other ranks] and [http://glosters.tripod.com/Aliwal.htm list of Officers]). Names of those who died are also available on the website Kent Fallen: [https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:_ecUItzasu4J:www.kentfallen.com/PDF%2520REPORTS/CANTERBURY%2520CATHEDRAL%252016TH%2520LANCERS.pdf+Sutlej+Campaign+Medal+Rolls+1845-1846&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShT4PzTiaZfoxKgOGAuVyS_KLx8jdmtkNgbbogVu3PnSYXRq1luS0Sh_gdjQswF7pFA8Q28pNIEJKG0duxaUkEFjPq0vsHuEBSvXB1HOYQwBTYJ-amZskgncVlnsWlr0LNbOfZA&sig=AHIEtbRpkEt5FA5sLo_PepouU9Hn5lSgOQ html version], [http://www.kentfallen.com/PDF%20REPORTS/CANTERBURY%20CATHEDRAL%2016TH%20LANCERS.pdf    pdf]  

A description of the 16th's experience at Aliwal can be found in the battle article.

==British Library holdings==
* ''History of the Sixteenth, the Queen's Light Dragoons (Lancers), 1759 to 1912''  by Colonel Henry Graham, published 1912. Volume 2 ''1912 to 1925'' published 1926.

==FIBIS resources==
*"Boy Soldier to Lancer: John Arnfield in the Anglo -Sikh Wars" by Ainslie Sharpe ''FIBIS Journal Number 26 Autumn 2011'', pages 31-40  For details of how to access this article, see [[FIBIS Journals]]
:John Arnfield transferred from the [[3rd Regiment of Foot]], the Buffs 1 April 1840, age 20 possibly because his sister had married a sergeant in the 16th Lancers at Meerut in 1838. He served in the [[Gwalior Campaign]] and the [[1st Sikh War]] He remained with the regiment in India until it returned to England, when he transferred to the [[9th (The Queen's Royal) Lancers|9th Lancers]] 1 April 1846
*[http://www.gallery.fibis.org/index.php?/category/26 FIBIS  Gallery: Sidney Malins Collection] Sidney Malins  played trombone in the Regimental band of the 16th Lancers. He was in India from 26th November 1920-20th March 1924

== Recommended Reading ==
''Three Cheers for the Queen-Lancers Charge!'' by W. J. Gould. (The Experiences of a Sergeant of 16th Queen’s Lancers in Afghanistan, the Gwalior War, the First Sikh War and the Kaffir War) available as a current reprint by  [http://www.leonaur.co.uk/books/booknumber.php?bookid=538 Leonaur]. Also available online under the original title, see below.

== External Links ==
'''Wikipedia'''
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_The_Queen%27s_Lancers 16th Queen's Lancers]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th/5th_The_Queen%27s_Royal_Lancers 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers] 
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Queen%27s_Royal_Lancers Queen's Royal Lancers] 

'''Other'''
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20080118043259/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/cav/D16L.htm 16th The Queen's Lancers] including [http://web.archive.org/web/20080118043621/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-cav/d16.htm deployments] www.regiments.org, now an archived website
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20071007121935/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/cav/D16-5L.htm 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers] including [http://web.archive.org/web/20071024085822/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-cav/d16-5L.htm deployments] www.regiments.org, now an archived website
*[http://www.qrlnymuseum.co.uk The Queen's Royal Lancers and Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Museum]  at Thoresby Park, 22 miles north of Nottingham.  Covers the [[5th Dragoons|5th]],   16th, [[17th Dragoons|17th]], and [[21st Hussars|21st Lancers]]
**[http://www.qrlnymuseum.co.uk/enquiries.htm Historical Enquiries and Research]. The Archives are located at Lancer House inside Prince William of Gloucester Barracks, Grantham
**[http://www.qrlnymuseum.co.uk/16l.htm The 16th Lancers]
**[http://www.qrlnymuseum.co.uk/165l.htm The 16th/5th Lancers]
*[http://www.angelfire.com/mp/memorials/16lancersx.htm Memorial in Bangalore (on Stephen Lewis' website)] - a transcription of names of Officers and men who died whilst the 16th were in India between 1865 and 1876.  Names of those who died during the Sutlej Campaign ([[1st Sikh War]] 1845-46) are also on the site (linked above).
*[http://www.soldiersofthequeen.com/page12-BattleofAliwalVeterans1896.html  Photographs, in 1896, and biography of the survivors of the Battle of Aliwal, 1846]. Soldiers of the Queen
*[http://www.worldmilitarybands.com/tag/16th-lancers/ The Band of the 16th Lancers] worldmilitarybands.com
===Historical books online===
*''Historical record of the Sixteenth, or the Queen’s Regiment of Light Dragoons; Lancers: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1759, and of its subsequent services to 1841''  [http://books.google.com/books?id=BSzeKu_CFjkC Google Books] 1842    Indian service commenced [http://books.google.com/books?id=BSzeKu_CFjkC&pg=PA87 page 87] in 1822
*[http://www.archive.org/details/tenyearsinindiai00gouluoft ''Ten years in India, in the 16th Queen's Lancers''] by WJD Gould  (1837-1846) [Archive.org]. In 1846 when the Regiment left India for England, those who wished to stay in India could transfer to either the [[3rd The King's Own Hussars|3rd Light Dragoons]] or the [[9th (The Queen's Royal) Lancers|9th Lancers]] ([http://www.archive.org/stream/tenyearsinindiai00gouluoft#page/108/mode/2up page 108]).
*''Military service and adventures in the Far East: including sketches of the campaigns against the Afghans in 1839 and the Sikhs in 1845-6'' by  Capt. Daniel Henry Mackinnon, late of the 16th Lancers, 2nd edition 1849 [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=CucwAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP3 ''Volume 1''], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=zJ-P21_amTEC&pg=PP9 ''Volume 2''] Google Books
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120322062715/http://www.medalcollector.co.uk/pdf/1350.pdf  ''A Memoir of Lieut-Colonel William Morris''] published by R. White-Thomson in 1903  (medalcollector.co.uk, now archived).   He was gazetted to a Cornetcy in the 16th Lancers and joined his Regiment at Meerut in April 1843 , serving in the [[Gwalior Campaign]] and the [[1st Sikh War]]. Refer extract in [[Battle of Aliwal]].
*[https://archive.org/details/frontiercampaign00dunmrich ''A Frontier Campaign; a Narrative of the Operations of the Malakand and Buner Field Forces, 1897-1898''] by the Viscount Fincastle, Lieutenant, 16th (Queen’s) Lancers and PC Eliott- Lockhart, Lieutenant “Queen’s Own” Corps of Guides 2nd Edition 1898 Archive.org

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