[3] Renamed the Royal Dragoons of Ireland in 1704,[1] it went on to fight under the Duke of Marlborough at the Battle of Blenheim in August 1704 during the War of the Spanish Succession.

[9] Following an investigation, it was found that a single individual, James M'Nassar, had infiltrated the regiment: he was ordered to be "transported beyond the seas".

For upward of half a century this gap remained in the army list, as anybody may see by referring to any number of that publication of half-a-dozen years back.

They then served under General Sir Bindon Blood, and operated in the Carolina district until July 1901, when they travelled by rail to Cape Colony.

Following the end of the war, 340 officers and men of the regiment left South Africa on the SS City of Vienna, which arrived at Southampton in October 1902.

[17] During the Battle of Cambrai in November 1917 George William Burdett Clare received the Victoria Cross posthumously.

[19] The 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers also has the grim honour of being the regiment of the last British soldier to die in the Great War.

This was Private George Edwin Ellison from Leeds, who was killed by a sniper as the regiment advanced into Mons a short time before the armistice came into effect.