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== External Links == | == External Links == | ||
[http://web.archive.org/web/20080118151132/www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/cav/D05L.htm 5th Royal Irish Lancers] including [http://web.archive.org/web/20080118151132/www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/cav/D05L.htm deployments] www.regiments.org, an archived site.<br> | *[http://web.archive.org/web/20080118151132/www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/cav/D05L.htm 5th Royal Irish Lancers] including [http://web.archive.org/web/20080118151132/www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/cav/D05L.htm deployments] www.regiments.org, an archived site.<br> | ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5th_Royal_Irish_Lancers 5th Royal Irish Lancers] Wikipedia<br> | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5th_Royal_Irish_Lancers 5th Royal Irish Lancers] Wikipedia<br> | ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Queen%27s_Royal_Hussars_(The_Queen%27s_Own_and_Royal_Irish) Queen's Royal Irish Hussars] Wikipedia | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Queen%27s_Royal_Hussars_(The_Queen%27s_Own_and_Royal_Irish) Queen's Royal Irish Hussars] Wikipedia | ||
*[http://www.qrlassociation.co.uk/m_home.htm The Queen's Royal Lancers Regimental Museum]. Covers the 5th, [[16th (The Queen's) Lancers|16th]], [[17th Dragoons|17th]], and [[21st Hussars|21st Lancers]] | |||
**[http://www.qrlassociation.co.uk/m_history_5.htm History: 5th Royal Irish Lancers] | |||
**[http://www.qrlassociation.co.uk/m_history_165.htm History: 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers] | |||
===Historical books online=== | ===Historical books online=== | ||
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historicalrecor00willgoog#page/n10/mode/2up ''The Historical Records of the Fifth (Royal Irish) Lancers from their foundation as Wynne's Dragoons (in 1689) to the present day''] by Walter Temple Willcox 1908 Archive.org | *[http://www.archive.org/stream/historicalrecor00willgoog#page/n10/mode/2up ''The Historical Records of the Fifth (Royal Irish) Lancers from their foundation as Wynne's Dragoons (in 1689) to the present day''] by Walter Temple Willcox 1908 Archive.org | ||
[[Category:British Army Cavalry Regiments]] | [[Category:British Army Cavalry Regiments]] | ||
Revision as of 06:44, 12 November 2011
Also known as 5th (or Royal Irish) Lancers
Chronology
- 1689 raised in Enniskillen as James Wynne's Regiment of Dragoons
- 1751 formally titled the 5th Regiment of Dragoons
- 1788 renamed the 5th Royal Irish Dragoons
- 1799 suspected of treachery and disbanded
- 1858 reformed as the 5th (or Royal Irish) Regiment of Dragoons
- 1861 renamed the 5th (or Royal Irish) Lancers
- 1922 amalgamated with the 16th The Queen's Lancers to become 16th/5th 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
External Links
- 5th Royal Irish Lancers including deployments www.regiments.org, an archived site.
- 5th Royal Irish Lancers Wikipedia
- Queen's Royal Irish Hussars Wikipedia
- The Queen's Royal Lancers Regimental Museum. Covers the 5th, 16th, 17th, and 21st Lancers
Historical books online
- The Historical Records of the Fifth (Royal Irish) Lancers from their foundation as Wynne's Dragoons (in 1689) to the present day by Walter Temple Willcox 1908 Archive.org