This image is the cover for the book Scarlet Lancers

Scarlet Lancers

The 16th/5th Queen's Royal Lancers have long had the reputation of being one of the most efficient, and at the same time one of the least flamboyant, of the British cavalry regiments. The regiment, as it exists today, is the product of the amalgamation after the Great War of two cavalry regiments whose combined battle honours bear witness to their distinguished services. It was first raised as the Royal Dragoons of Ireland, and more recently has returned in triumph from the Gulf War, prior to which not one member of the regiment had seen action, apart from tours in Northern Ireland. In writing this history of the regiment he once commanded, General Lunt offers evidence of the continuing value of tradition and esprit de corps on which the regimental system of the British Army has for so long been based.

James Lunt

major General James Lunt is a military historian with many biographies and military histories to his credit. Although he has never served in a Gurkha regiment, he served with Gurkhas on many occasions during his service in India and Burma with his British Regiment and the Burma Rifles. He is an honorary M.A. of Oxford University, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a Vice-President of the Society of Army Historical Research, and an Emeritus Fellow of Wadham Collage, oxford

Leo Cooper