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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===
==British Library holdings==
* ''History of the Sixteenth, the Queen's Light Dragoons (Lancers), 1759 to 1912'' by Colonel Henry Graham, published 1912. Available at the British Library, UIN: BLL01001095905 . Volume 2 ''1912 to 1925'' published 1926is available online, see below.
==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 ==
*[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*[https://archive.org/details/soldieringonbein0000goug/page/n7/mode/2up ''Soldiering on : being the memoirs of General Sir Hubert Gough''] 1957, first published 1954. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. He became an officer of the 16th Lancers 5 March 1889, aged eighteen and a half. The regiment went to India in September 1890, where he remained until c 1898, having recently taken part in the [[Tirah Campaign]] as a transport officer, appointed on a personal basis, as the regiment was not part of this campaign. He appears to have left the regiment at this point.*[https://archive.org/details/historyofsixteen00grah/page/n5/mode/2up ''History of the Sixteenth, the Queen's Light Dragoons (Lancers) 1912-1925''] by Colonel Henry Graham 1926. Archive.org. During this period the regiment was in India late 1920 to early 1924.
== References ==
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