| Photos of the 16th Lancers,
during the reign of Queen Victoria
Raised in 1759 as the 16th Light Dragoons, also known as Burgoyne's
Light Horse, changing name in 1861 to the 16th (The Queen's) Lancers
16TH QUEEN'S LANCERS
Battle Honours
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1793 - 1802 Beaumont during the French revolutionary wars |
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1808 - 1814 at Talavera, Fuentos
d'Onoro, Salamanca, Vittoria,
Nive during the Peninsula war |
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1815 Battle of waterloo |
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1826, Bhurtpore during the Revolt of rajah of Bhurtpore |
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1839 Ghuznee during the first Afghan War |
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1843 at Maharajpore during the Gwalior Campaign |
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1845 - 1846 Aliwal, Sobraon during the First Sikh War |
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1899 - 1902 Relief of Kimberley,
Paardeburg, during the Boer
War |
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1914 - 1918 Mons, le Cateau, Marne Aisne
Messines, Ypres, Bellewaarde,
Arras, Cambrai, Somme during the First World war |
Victoria Cross Awards
One Victoria Cross Awarded to Lt Viscount Fincastle, during the Tirah
campaign 17th August 1897.
ALEXANDER EDWARD MURRAY,
VISCOUNT FINCASTLE (Lieutenant,
now Captain) 16th Lancers
Associated with Colonel R. B. Adams (V.C.), in the gallant attempt
to save the live of Lieutenant Greaves, of the Guides, at Nawa Kili, Upper
Swat, India on August 17th 1897.
Born on April 22nd 1871 son of the
Earl of Dunmore, Viscount Fincastle joined the 16th Lancers in
1891. Was A.D.C. to the
Voceroy of India 1894. Served
in Dongola Expedition 1896, and Boer War 1899-1902, commanding
Fincastle’s horse during that time. |
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Sergeant - 16th Lancers |
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Lieutenant - 16th Lancers |
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