Difference between revisions of "5th (or Royal Irish) Lancers"

Revision as of 10:51, 4 September 2011

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

@@ Line 20: / Line 20: @@
 == External Links ==
-[http://web.archive.org/web/20080118151132/www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/cav/D05L.htm  5th Royal Irish Lancers] www.regiments.org<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/The_Queen%27s_Royal_Hussars_(The_Queen%27s_Own_and_Royal_Irish) Queen's Royal Irish Hussars] Wikipedia
+===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
 [[Category:British Army Cavalry Regiments]]