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5th (Royal Irish) Lancers - Cranston Fine Arts Regiment Art


Name : 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers



Started : 1861
Ended : 1921




Notes :


Battle Honours

1701 - 1715 : Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde, Malplaquet during the War of the Spanish Succession.
1885 : Suakin, during the Egyptian Campaign
1899 - 190 : 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.

Regimental Historical Text : 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers

Previously :

5th_(Royal_Irish)_Regiment_of_Dragoons_(Lancers)

Subsequently :

5th_Royal_Irish_Lancers

Artwork of this regiment

Cavalry Types of the British Army by Richard Simkin.


Cavalry Types of the British Army by Richard Simkin.
2 editions.
£20.00 - £33.00

The British Army - 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers by Harry Payne. (PC)


The British Army - 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers by Harry Payne. (PC)
One edition.
£2.90

The 5th Lancers Re-enter Mons, November 1918 by Richard Caton Woodville.


The 5th Lancers Re-enter Mons, November 1918 by Richard Caton Woodville.
3 editions.
£10.00 - £40.00


5th Lancers by Richard Simkin.


5th Lancers by Richard Simkin.
2 editions.
£18.00 - £140.00

Irish Regiments in the British Army by Richard Simkin.


Irish Regiments in the British Army by Richard Simkin.
One edition.
£22.00

Lance-Corporal Colgrave Rallying Indian Troops And Leading Them Into Action At Hollebeke.

Lance-Corporal Colgrave Rallying Indian Troops And Leading Them Into Action At Hollebeke.
One edition.
£10.00



Previous Regiment Lineage(s) :

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Wynne's_Regiment_of_Dragoons (1689 - 1704)
Royal_Dragoons_of_Ireland (1704 - 1751)
5th_Regiment_of_Dragoons (1751 - 1756)
5th_(Royal_Irish)_Regiment_of_Dragoons (1756 - 1799)
5th_(Royal_Irish)_Regiment_of_Dragoons_(Lancers) (1858 - 1861)

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Subsequent Regiment Lineage :

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5th_Royal_Irish_Lancers (1921 - 1922)
16th/5th_Lancers (1922 - 1954)
16th/5th_Queen's_Royal_Lancers (1954 - 1993)
Queen's_Royal_Lancers (1993 - 2015)
Royal_Lancers_(Queen's_Elizabeth's_Own) (2015 - Present)

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Text for the above items :

Cavalry Types of the British Army by Richard Simkin.

3rd Hussars, Trooper
16th Lancers, Trooper
15th Hussars, Sergeant
11the Hussars, Officer
4th Dragoons Guards, Trooper
2nd Life Guards, Trooper
6th Dragoons Guards (Carabiniers) Officer
18th Hussars, Trooper
1st Life Guards, Officer
13th Hussars, Officer
12th Lancers, Trooper
14th Hussars, Officer
10th Hussars, Officer
Royal Horse Guards, Officer
7th Dragoon Guards, Trooper
5th Dragoon Guards Officer
5th Lancers, Trooper
4th Hussars, Trooper
2nd Dragoons, Royal Scots Greys, Officer
2nd Dragoon Guards (Queens Bays) Trooper
1st Royal Dragoons Corporal
7th Hussars, Trooper
17th Lancers, Trooper.


The British Army - 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers by Harry Payne. (PC)

No text for this item


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.


5th Lancers by Richard Simkin.

Printed on high quality 300gsm German etching stock. Only 25 copies of this superb quality reprint are available.


Irish Regiments in the British Army by Richard Simkin.

Royal Dublin Fusiliers, Leinster Regiment, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 8th Kings Royal Irish Hussars, 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards, Connaught Rangers, 5th Royal Irish Lancers, Royal Irish Fusiliers, Royal Irish rifles, Royal Irish Regiment, 6th Inniskilling Dragoons, Royal Munster Fusiliers.


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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