| Titles. | Colour of | Campaigns, Battles, &c. | ||
| Uniform. | Facings. | |||
| 15th Light Dragoons. 1759–1766 15th, or the King’s Light Dragoons. 1766–1806 15th, The King’s Hussars. 1806—— | Scarlet, 1759–1784. Blue, 1784—. | Green, 1759–1766. Blue, 1766–1784. Scarlet, 1784–1822. Blue, 1822—. | Emsdorf, 1760. Wilhelmstahl, 1762. Germany, 1760–1763. Valenciennes, 1793. Cateau, 1794. Villers-en-Couché, 1794. Tournay, 1794. Nimeguen, 1794. Guildermalsen, 1795. Flanders, 1793–1795. | Egmont-op-Zee, 1799. Alkmaer, 1799. Sahagun, 1808. Corunna, 1809. Morales, 1813. Vittoria, 1813. Peninsula, 1808–1809. Do., 1813–1814. Waterloo, 1815. Netherlands, 1815. |
The Regiment was raised in the vicinity of London.
It was the first Regiment of Light Dragoons raised in England, and was commonly known as “Elliott’s Light Horse” from its Colonel’s name.
It received its title and motto “Merebimur” in 1766 for its conduct in the campaign in Germany, and was authorized to bear the following inscription on its helmets “Five Battalions of French defeated and taken by this Regiment with their Colours and nine pieces of cannon at Emsdorf, 16th July 1760.” It was permitted to wear scarlet feathers in its helmets in 1799 as a distinction, after a review by the King.
It bears “the Crest of England within the Garter.”
It captured three guns at Villers-en-Couché, and the eight officers present received a medal from the Emperor of Germany.
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.