5th (or Royal Irish) Lancers
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Also known as 5th (or Royal Irish) Lancers
Contents
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
- On August 1st 1874, as the regiment was returning to England 1 sergeant and 6 men transferred to the 13th Hussars, according to the link The 13th Hussars in India & Afghanistan 1874-1884 pinetreeweb.com
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
