SIXTEENTH LANCERS.
| Titles. | Colour of | Campaigns, Battles, &c. | ||
| Uniform. | Facings. | |||
| 16th Light Dragoons. 1763–1766 16th, or the Queen’s Light Dragoons. 1766–1815 16th, The Queen’s Lancers. 1815—— | Scarlet, 1763–1784. Blue, 1784–1832. Scarlet, 1832—. | Black, 1763–1766. Blue, 1766–1784. Scarlet, 1784–1832. Blue, 1832—. | Belle-Isle, 1761. Brooklyn, 1776. Germantown, 1777. Freehold, 1778. America, 1775–1778. Valenciennes, 1793. Dunkirk, 1793. Cateau, 1794. Tournay, 1794. Flanders, 1793–1796. Talavera, 1809. Fuentes-d’Onor, 1811. Llereena, 1812. | Salamanca, 1812. Vittoria, 1813. Nive, 1813. Peninsula, 1809–1814. Waterloo, 1815. Netherlands, 1815. Bhurtpore, 1826. Afghanistan, 1839. Ghuznee, 1839. Maharajpore, 1843. Aliwal, 1846. Sobraon, 1846. |
The Regiment was chiefly raised near London.
It received its motto “Aut cursu, aut cominus armis” in 1766 on being made “the Queen’s,” for its services in Portugal in 1762.
It bears the “Royal Cypher within the Garter.”