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Military Art Prints of the 16th The
Queen's Lancers and the 5th Royal Irish
Lancers, published by Cranston Fine Arts. |
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16th THE QUEEN'S LANCER
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
Battle Honours
 | 1793 - 1802 Beaumont during the French revolutionary wars |
| 1808 - 1814 at Talavera, Fuentos
d'Onoro, Salamanca, Vittoria,
Nive during the Peninsula war |
| 1815 Battle of waterloo |
| 1826, Bhurtpore during the Revolt of rajah of Bhurtpore |
| 1839 Ghuznee during the first Afghan War |
| 1843 at Maharajpore during the Gwalior Campaign |
| 1845 - 1846 Aliwal, Sobraon during the First Sikh War |
| 1899 - 1902 Relief of Kimberley,
Paardeburg, during the Boer
War |
| 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.
5TH ROYAL IRISH LANCERS
Raised in 1689 as Wynne''s Dragoons later disbanded in 1799 till 1858,
becoming in 1861 the 5th (Royal Irish Lancers) regiment was again
disbanded but reconstituted in 1922.
Battle Honours
| 1701 - 1715 Blenheim, Ramillies,
Oudenarde, Malplaquet. during
the War of the Spanish Succession. |
| 1885 at Suakin During the
Egyptian Campaign |
| 1899 - 1902 Defence of Ladysmith during the
Boer war |
| 1914 - 1918 Le Cateau, Retreat from
Mons, Marne, Aisne, Messines, Ypres, Cambrai, St Quentin, Pursuit to
Mons, during the First World war |
Victoria Cross awards Two Victoria Cross were awarded. One during the Boer War and one during
the First World War
Both of the Above regiments were amalgamated in 1922, forming the 16th
/ 5th Lancers and gaining the title of 16th / 5th The Queen's Royal
Lancers in 1954.
Further battle Honours
| 1939 - 1945 Fondouk, Bordj, Djebel
Kournine, in Tunis, 1942 -
1943, Cassino II, Liri Valley, Advance to Florence, Argenta Gap, in Italy
1944 - 1945. |
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Sgt Dowling MM & L. Cpl. F. Evans, REME, February 26th 1992 by David Rowlands.
Sgt Dowling and L Cpl Evans with the 16th/5th The Queens Royal Lancers. 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers provided the reconnaissance for the 1st (UK) Armoured Division. On 25th February 1991, the regiment led the advance from Saudi Arabia, through the Iraqi defence line and into Iraq. The next day, they were attacking the enemy in the area code-named Objective LEAD. Each squadron of the Regiment had a small tracked logistical element mounted in M548 load carriers crewed by personnel of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. On 26th February, two of these M548s, belonging to C Squadron, were being led by the Squadron Sergeant-Major in his Ferret scout car when an enemy T59 tank appeared and chased them. One vehicle broke down during the pursuit. Fortunately, the T59 lost them in the sandstorm, and the other M548 stopped and was able to take off the crew. As the visibility improved, the tank saw and destroyed the abandoned M548 and gave chase to the remaining one. Lance Corporal F C Evans was firing his General Purpose Machine Gun (GPMG) from the roof, while Sergeant M J Dowling, leaning out of the cab, bravely tried to distract the tank's aim by firing his rifle at it. Both men were killed by the tank's machine gun fire. Sergeant Dowling was posthumously awarded the Military Medal. This painting was commissioned by the Warrant Officers and Sergeants Mess of 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers, and presented to the Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
Signed edition prints. Image size 22 inches x 14 inches (56cm x 36cm). Price £65.00
Limited edition of 50 artist proofs. Image size 22 inches x 14 inches (56cm x 36cm). Price £125.00
Limited edition of 200 giclee canvas prints. Image size 36 inches x 24 inches (91cm x 61cm). Price £500.00
Limited edition of 200 giclee canvas prints. Image size 30 inches x 20 inches (76cm x 51cm). Price £390.00
ITEM CODE DHM1371
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Charge of the 16th Lancers at the Battle of Aliwal by Mark Churms.
The 16th Lancers were part of General Sir Harry Smith's army consisitng of the British and Bengali army of 12,000 men and 30 guns against the Sikh army of 30,000 men and 67 guns of Ranjodh Singh during the First Sikh War which was fought on the 28th January 1848 in the Punjab in the North West of India. This painting depicts the 16th Lancers which were part of Brigadier Macdowell's brigade consisitng of the 16th Queen's Lancers, 3rd Bengal Light Cavalry and 4th Bengal Irregular Cavalry. The 16th Lancers charged several times during the action, breaking a number of Sikh infantry squares and overrunning a battery of Sikh artillery. The Lancers are shown wearing over their chapkas the white cotton cover which had been adopted for service in the tropics.
Signed limited edition of 1100 prints. Image size 17 inches x 10 inches (43cm x 25cm). Price £25.00
Limited edition of 50 artist proofs. Image size 17 inches x 10 inches (43cm x 25cm). Price £60.00
Original oil study by Mark Churms. Image size 17 inches x 10 inches (43cm x 25cm). Price £650.00
ITEM CODE DHM0359
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Officer 16th Lancers India, 1846 by Mark Churms.
The 16th Lancers were part of General Sir Harry Smith's army consisitng of the British and Bengali army of 12,000 men and 30 guns against the Sikh army of 30,000 men and 67 guns of Ranjodh Singh during the First Sikh War which was fought on the 28th January 1848 in the Punjab in the North West of India. This painting depicts the 16th Lancers which were part of Brigadier Macdowell's brigade consisitng of the 16th Queen's Lancers, 3rd Bengal Light Cavalry and 4th Bengal Irregular Cavalry. The 16th Lancers charged several times during the action, breaking a number of Sikh infantry squares and overrunning a battery of Sikh artillery. The Lancers are shown wearing over their chapkas the white cotton cover which had been adopted for service in the tropics.
Signed limited edition of 1000 prints. Image size 8 inches x 12 inches (20cm x 31cm). Price £30.00
Limited edition of 50 artist proofs. Image size 8 inches x 12 inches (20cm x 31cm). Price £43.00
Original painting by Mark Churms. Image size 16 inches x 20 inches (41cm x 51cm). Price £
ITEM CODE DHM0377
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The 5th Lancers Re-enter Mons, November 1918 by Richard Caton Woodville.
The 5th Lancers (attached to the Canadian Corps) were the first British troops to re-enter Mons, just as they had been the last to leave Mons in August 1914. Very few of the troopers who left Mons in 1914 were there to re-enter in 1918.
Open edition print. Image size 25 inches x 15 inches (64cm x 38cm). Price £30.00
Open edition print. Image size 12 inches x 8 inches (31cm x 20cm). Price £14.00
ITEM CODE DHM1082
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The Charge of the 16th Lancers, at the Battle of Aliwal, by Orlando Norie.
The battle was fought during the 1st Sikh War (1845-1846) between a force of 10,000 British and Indian troops under the command of General Sir Harry Smith and a 15,000 strong Sikh army led by Ranjur Singh. The Sikh forces occupied an entrenched position between the villages of Aliwal and Bhundri, close to the River Sutlej. Smith drove the Sikhs out of Aliwal with his infantry and then rolled up their line with cavalry and artillery support. The 16th Lancers charged several times during the action, breaking a number of Sikh infantry squares and overrunning a battery of Sikh artillery.
Open edition print. Image size 16 inches x 12 inches (41cm x 31cm). Price £20.00
ITEM CODE DHM0162
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The Death of Cornet Bigoe, during the Battle of Aliwal, by Orlando Norie.
Cornet Bigoe of the 16th Lancers killed during the battle of Aliwal during the first Sikh War, 28th January 1846, Aliwal is 50 South East of Lahore, India. The 16th Lancers were part of General Sir Harry Smith's army consisitng of the British and Bengali army of 12,000 men and 30 guns against the Sikh army of 30,000 men and 67 guns of Ranjodh Singh during the First Sikh War which was fought on the 28th January 1848 in the Punjab in the North West of India. This painting depicts the 16th Lancers which were part of Brigadier Macdowell's brigade consisitng of the 16th Queen's Lancers, 3rd Bengal Light Cavalry and 4th Bengal Irregular Cavalry. The 16th Lancers charged several times during the action, breaking a number of Sikh infantry squares and overrunning a battery of Sikh artillery.
Open edition print. Image size 16 inches x 12 inches (41cm x 31cm). Price £37.00
ITEM CODE DHM0163
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Scimitars of the 16th / 5th the Queens Royal Lancers in Action by David Rowlands.
The 16th / 5th shown during the operation Objective Lead, The Gulf war 26th February 1991.
Signed edition. Image size 17 inches x 12 inches (43cm x 31cm). Price £40.00
Limited edition of 50 artist proofs. Image size 17 inches x 12 inches (43cm x 31cm). Price £70.00
Unsigned edition. Image size 17 inches x 12 inches (43cm x 31cm). Price £30.00
Limited edition of 200 giclee canvas prints. Image size 36 inches x 24 inches (91.5cm x 61cm). Price £500.00
Limited edition of 200 giclee canvas prints. Image size 30 inches x 20 inches (76cm x 51cm). Price £390.00
ITEM CODE DHM0608
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16th Lancers by Richard Simkin
Open edition print. Image size 9 inches x 12 inches (23cm x 31cm). Price £14.00
Original chromolithograph, published c.1888. Image size 10 inches x 13 inches (25cm x 33cm). Price £140.00
ITEM CODE UN0262
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The Lancers by Michael Angelo Hayes.
Open edition print. Image size 8 inches x 12 inches (20cm x 31cm). Price £14.00
ITEM CODE UN0240
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The Reverend P. W. Guinness. Chaplain To The Forces Riding With A Message Under Heavy Fire To The Headquarters Of The 3rd Cavalry Brigade.
During the fighting about Kruistraat on November 5th 1914, Major Dixon of the 16th Lancers was mortally wounded. The Reverend Percy Wyndham Guinness, B.A., Chaplain to the forces, the 3rd Cavalry Brigade, gallantly went on his own initiative into the trenches under heavy fire, and brought the wounded officer to the ambulance. In the afternoon of the same day, being the only person with a horse in the region, which was being shelled, he rode with a message under heavy fire from the 4th Hussars to the headquarters of the 3rd Cavalry Brigade. For gallant conduct he was rewarded with the D.S.O.
Title and text describing the event beneath image as shown. Paper size 10.5 inches x 8.5 inches (27cm x 22cm). Price £13.00
ITEM CODE DTE0261
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Lance-Corporal Colgrave Rallying Indian Troops And Leading Them Into Action At Hollebeke.
On October 30th 1914, Colgraves regiment, the 5th Lancers, was extremely hard pressed near Hollebeke and a battalion of Indian infantry was sent up to support them. Their battalion came under an extremely heavy fire and soon lost all its officers, while the men, leaderless and shaken, became demoralised. Colgrave, retiring with a scattered body of Indians, rallied them and led them back in time to shatter the German infantry attack. He then rallied other bodies and also carried a wounded officer into safety, services for which he received the D.C.N.
First World War antique black and white book plate published c.1916-18 of glorious acts of heroism during the Great War. This plate may also have text on the reverse side which does not affect the framed side. Title and text describing the event beneath image as shown. Paper size 10.5 inches x 8.5 inches (27cm x 22cm). Price £13.00
ITEM CODE DTE0012
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East Yorkshire Regiment by Richard Caton Woodville (P)
Original chromolithograph published c.1900. Image size 7 inches x 11 inches (18cm x 28cm). Price £75.00
ITEM CODE UN0475
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REME, February 26th 1992 by David Rowlands Sgt Dowling and L Cpl Evans with the 16th/5th The
Queen's Royal Lancers.
Charge of the 16th Lancers at the Battle of Aliwal by Mark
Churms. This oil study shows the 16th Lancers attacking the Mutineers Infantry square
and artillery.
Officer 16th Lancers India,
1846 by Mark Churms Officer of the 16th Lancers during the Battle of
Aliwal
The 5th Lancers Re-enter Mons, November 1918 by
Richard Caton Woodville The 5th Lancers (attached to the Canadian Corps) were the first British troops to re-enter
Mons, just
as they had been the last to leave Mons in August 1914. Very few of the
troopers who left Mons in 1914 were there to re-enter in 1918.
The Charge of the 16th Lancers, at the Battle of
Aliwal, by Orlando Norie.
The Death of Cornet Bigoe, during the Battle of Aliwal, by Orlando
Norie. Cornet Bigoe of the 16th Lancers killed during the battle of Aliwal during
the first Sikh War, 28th January 1846, Aliwal is 50 South East of Lahore, India.
Scimitars of the 16th / 5th the Queens Royal lancers in Action by David
Rowlands. The 16th / 5th shown during the operation Objective Lead, The Gulf war 26th February
1991.
The Reverend P. W. Guinness.
Chaplain To The Forces Riding With A Message Under Heavy Fire To The Headquarters Of The
3rd Cavalry Brigade. During the fighting about Kruistraat on November 5th 1914, Major Dixon of the
16th Lancers was mortally wounded.
The Reverend Percy Wyndham Guinness, B.A., Chaplain to the
forces, the 3rd Cavalry Brigade, gallantly went on his own
initiative into the trenches under heavy fire, and brought the wounded
officer to the ambulance. In
the afternoon of the same day, being the only person with a horse in the
region, which was being shelled, he rode with a message under heavy fire
from the 4th Hussars to the headquarters of the 3rd Cavalry Brigade. For
gallant conduct he was rewarded with the D.S.O.
Lance-Corporal
Colgrave Rallying Indian Troops And Leading Them Into Action At
Hollebeke. On October 30th 1914, Colgraves regiment, the 5th
Lancers, was extremely hard pressed near Hollebeke and a battalion of
Indian infantry was sent up to support them.
Their battalion came under an extremely heavy fire and soon lost
all its officers, while the men, leaderless and shaken, became
demoralised. Colgrave,
retiring with a scattered body of Indians, rallied them and led them
back in time to shatter the German infantry attack.
He then rallied other bodies and also carried a wounded officer
into safety, services for which he received the D.C.N.
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History of the 5th Lancers, during the
reign of Queen Victoria.
The history of this regiment is intermittent, a great gap occurring
between 1798 and 1858. It originated with the forces raised by the
town of Inniskilling to resist the invading forces of King James II, and
shared in the work done by them. In the latter year, by a warrant
of William II, the Inniskilling forces were consolidated into a regiment
of Horse, two regiments of Dragoons, which became the 5th Royal Irish
and 6th Inniskilling Regiments, and three battalions of foot.
They appear to have shared in all the engagements and harassing work
that characterised the operations against the Irish rebels and their
French allies from 1689 to 1691; and certainly served with King William
in Flanders from 1694 to 1697. But it was in the great campaigns
of Marlborough that the royal Irish Dragoons most distinguished
themselves, and for their important services have transmitted to their
descendants, the 5th royal Irish Lancers, the names of "Blenheim",
"Ramillies", "Oudenarde", and "Malplaquet",
to head the regimental list of honours. At Blejnheim they shared
in the vigorous cavalry charges which so materially brought the day to a
successful issue; and by the direction of the Duke of Marlborough
himself the kettledrums taken from the French during the engagement were
ordered "to be carried at the head of the Royal Dragoons of
Ireland". resent at the forcing of the fortified lines at
Neer-hespen and Helixem, with the Royal Scots and the irish Dragoons,
and the following year at Ramillies they again charged knee to knee with
the greys, making prisoners of two Picardy regiments, and cutting a
third to pieces, for which gallant action they were permitted to wear
grenadier caps. Lieutenant-General Count de Horn was taken
prisoner during the fight by Mr Ellis of the Royal Irish dragoons.
Malplaquet saw them for a fourth time being brigaded with the Royal
North British Dragoons under General Sybourg, and, filing through a wood
in their front, after a desperate series of charges, they drove the
French Cuirassiers from the field.
The early record of the regiment is honourable and distinguished, and
continued so until 1798. The cause for its disbandment seems to be
very insufficiently understood. There is very strong evidence in
contemporaneous publications that scant justice was meted out to a brave
and distinguished regiment. A very exhaustive and apparently
truthful account of the events that led to this disbandment appears in
the second volume of the "British Military Library", dated
April 1800, of which the following is a summary. No doubt was felt
as to its loyalty when in 1798 the regiment was ordered to Ireland to
assist in putting down the Irish insurrection, which had broken out with
every incident of revengeful cruelty. "The gentlemen of
property were either massacred with savage barbarity or immured in the
gaol of Wexford, under the most dreadful suspense, and in momentary
dread of increased enormities, while the females were carried off to the
place of general rendezvous, where they experienced treatment that we
forebear to enter on, because the details would disgrace the annals of
civilisation". They met the enemy at Ross, which was
garrisoned by about 1700 men under General Johnson, against which the
"Army of Ireland", 18000 strong, advanced on the 2nd
June. The attack was delivered with the utmost fury in three
columns, one of which set fire to the suburbs; and, covered by a number
of "horned cattle", whih they drove before them "through
the smoke, they penetrated the town on one side, whil a body of pikemen
entered it from the other." The story, as told in this
record, reads like an Afghan rush or an Arab charge. "Those
who escaped the sword and bullet were fondly taught to believe that they
were shielded by some superior power, and those that fell died under the
strongest impression that they were destined to an early participation
of eternal comforts."
Into the midst of the disorder charged the only squadron of the 5th
Dragoons present, and that with such desperate gallantry, through the
narrow roads and uneven streets, against the rebel troops, "armed
with pikes ten to twelve feet long, that of the whole force - less than
a hundred strong - but the quartermaster and nine men escaped.
Even then their courage was undaunted. when the general, whose
force was diminished by one half, saw that the rebels were not pursuing
the advantage they had gained, he spoke to his men and asked such as
were willing to conquer or die with their general to follow him.
The ten survivors of the squadron avowed that "they were willing to
shed the last drop of their blood in support of their general and to
avenge their fallen comrades"; and the spirit so displayed was met
by the answering cheers of the little garrison, and, with the cry
"God save the King and success to General Johnson!" they
returned with vigour to the attack, and regained the town with the most
awful carnage. The next day, from the streets alone, some 2000
bodies were taken.
Personal reasons for desiring to injure the regiment are plainly
advanced by the writer of the article in question. "It was
the intent of some individuals to get the 5th Dragoons removed from the
next establishment for the purpose of enhancing the value of their
commissions in the event of their being sent to England". Be
this as it may, it is not denied that orders were issued to fill up the
gaps made in the above action by enlisting recruits in Ireland.
But no care was taken as to their selection. Many were rebel
partisans and in league with their friends in the mountain near
Lehaunstown Huts, about seven miles from Dublin, where there was a
detachment of the Dragoons. A plot was laid to take possession of
this station by these new recruits, and massacre all its little garrison
of seventy men; but it was discovered, and the culprits were tried by
court martial. Two brothers named Feeny, deserters from the
regiment when at Drogheda, "were caught by the yeomanry in the act
of thieving ", and to avoid immediate death offered to name other
Dragoons who were engaged in the conspiracy. Such evidence cannot
be deemed to be of great value, and the only name advanced by these
scoundrels was that of James McNassar, as being implicated. In the
court martial that ensued, which resulted in the condemnation to death
of the Feenys, and the transportation of McNassar, not one iota of
evidence was brought against a single other man of the entire
regiment,then some 600 strong. Two other men, Ryan, a reduced
sergeant, and Gallagher, a corporal, were suspected by the commanding
officer, but nothing could be proved against them and they were
released. On such weak grounds the 5th Royal Irish Dragoons were
disbanded at Chatham on the 10th April 1799. The regiment landed
in England and "marched above 200 miles on foot" to Chtaham,
"in perfectly good order", and was "publicly thanked by
General fox for its exemplary good behaviour during the march and its
unremitting regularity whilst it was under his command". Such
conduct is not that of a regiment that has either disgraced itself or
been guilty of indiscipline.
But it was not until 1858 that the erring judgment was reversed, and
the old Royal Irish Dragoons were restored to the army list, to blossom
into the 5th Royal Irish Lancers, with the harp and crown as their
badge and the old motto, with the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards of
"Quis separabit". In Stocqueler's list of British
regiments, dated 1871, the colour of the uniform is red, with blue
facings, but the present dress is like all the Lancer regiments, except
the 16th - blue with scarlet facings. They served in India from
1863 to 1874; but in their next active service added Suakim to the list
of honours by despatching two squadrons to take part in that section
section of the war in the Soudan, where they shared in the battle of
Hasheen.
The saddest loss to the regiment did not, however, occur in the
Suakim portion of the theatre of war. In the broken square at Abu
Klea, during the march of Sir Herbert Stewart's column across the Bayuda
desert, fell Major Carmichael, "accidentally shot through the head
by one of our own men, so that death must have been instantaneous".
The term "Royal Irish", which is frequently applied to the
regiment, is misleading, as there is another "Royal Irish"
Regiment, though of Dragoons. The origin of the nickname at one
time given to it, "The Daily Advertisers", is lost in
obscurity. Extract from "The British Army and Auxiliary Forces" Colonel
C. Cooper King, R.M.A. , 1894
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