5th (or Royal Irish) Lancers: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 23:15, 17 January 2015

Also known as 5th (or Royal Irish) Lancers

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

On 1 August 1874, as the regiment was returning to England, 1 sergeant and 6 men transferred to the 13th Hussars ^[1]

5th Royal Irish Lancers including deployments www.regiments.org, an archived site.
16th/5th The Queen's Royal 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 and Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Museum at Thoresby Park, 22 miles north of Nottingham. Covers the 5th, 16th, 17th, and 21st Lancers
- Historical Enquiries and Research. The Archives are located at Lancer House inside Prince William of Gloucester Barracks, Grantham
- The 5th Lancers
- The 16th/5th Lancers

@@ Line 27: / Line 27: @@
 *[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://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.qrlnymuseum.co.uk The Queen's Royal Lancers and Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Museum]  at Thoresby Park, 22 miles north of Nottingham. 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.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.qrlassociation.co.uk/m_history_165.htm History: 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers]
+**[http://www.qrlnymuseum.co.uk/5l.htm The 5th Lancers]
+**[http://www.qrlnymuseum.co.uk/165l.htm The 16th/5th Lancers]
 ===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