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16th (The Queen's) Lancers

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*'''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> [httphttps://www.pinetreeweb.com/13th-afghan-war.htm html The 13th Hussars in India & Afghanistan 1874-1884] pinetreeweb.com</ref>
===1st Sikh War===
*[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.qrlassociationqrlnymuseum.co.uk/m_home.htm The Queen's Royal Lancers Regimental 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.qrlassociationqrlnymuseum.co.uk/m_history_16enquiries.htm HistoryHistorical 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 The Queen's Lancers]**[http://www.qrlassociationqrlnymuseum.co.uk/m_history_165165l.htm History: The 16th/5th The Queen's Royal 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.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
*''A Memoir of Lieut-Colonel William Morris'' published by R. White-Thomson in 1903 [https://docsweb.googlearchive.comorg/viewer?a=v&q=cache:25PopAgE6YcJ:www.medalcollector.co.ukweb/pdf20120322062715/1350.pdf+Captain+Morris,+17th+Lancers&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgz7VTZllR5gZCzWz9200qfxv15OmvMpJ75ynuOAFBM-O_zA6ScHyCg_Yu1j6IArCqaHcG2z8r6If-WGZU2kpdESqlHPTkyjswuxTbdV-fSPHIryaYuouPP-7cABt0oOh2XCSpx&sig=AHIEtbR2bDiB7HhE4-zgPHnaPQptwWP9qA html version], [http://www.medalcollector.co.uk/pdf/1350.pdf original 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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