of Mons in August 1914. During the Battle of Cambrai in November 1917 George William Burdett Clare received the Victoria Cross posthumously. 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. The regiment was renamed 5th Royal Irish Lancers and disbanded in 1921, but a squadron was reconstituted in 1922 and immediately amalgamated with the 16th The Queen's Lancers to become the 16th/5th Lancers. Regimental museum The regimental collection is held at The Royal Lancers and Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Museum which is based at Thoresby Hall in Nottinghamshire. Battle honours The regiment was awarded the following British battle honours: Early Wars: Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde, Malplaquet, Suakin 1885, Defence of Ladysmith, South Africa 1899–1902 The Great War: Mons, Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914, Messines 1914, Ypres 1914, 1915, Gheluvelt, St. Julien, Bellewaarde, Arras 1917, Scarpe 1917, Cambrai 1917, Somme 1918, St. Quentin, Amiens, Hindenburg Line, Canal du Nord, Pursuit to Mons, France and Flanders 1914–18 Victoria Crosses Private George William Burdett Clare - First World War, 28–29 November 1917 Lieutenant Frederic Brooks Dugdale - Second Boer War, 3 March 1901 Regimental Colonels Colonels of the Regiment were: James Wynne's Regiment of Dragoons 1689–1695: Brig-Gen. James Wynne Royal Dragoons of Ireland (1704) 1695–1715: Gen. Hon. Charles Ross 1715–1729: Col. Hon. Thomas Sydney 1729–1732: Gen. Hon. Charles Ross (reappointed) 1732–1737: Lt-Gen. Owen Wynne 1737–1758: F.M. Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth 5th (or Royal Irish) Regiment of Dragoons 1758–1760: Gen. John Mostyn 1760–1787: Gen. Hon. Sir Joseph Yorke, 1st Baron Dover, KB 1787–1799: Gen. The Rt. Hon. Robert Cuninghame, 1st Baron Rossmore, PC 1799: Regiment disbanded at Chatham 1858: Regiment re-formed 5th (or Royal Irish) Regiment of Dragoons (Lancers) 1858–1868: Gen. Sir James Charles Chatterton, Bt., GCB, KH 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers 1868–1872: Gen. Edward Pole 1872–1887: Gen. Henry Darby Griffith, CB 1887–1892: Lt-Gen. Sir Somerset Gough-Calthorpe, 7th Baron Calthorpe, KCB 1892–1896: Lt-Gen. Hon. Charles Wemyss Thesiger 1896–1906: Lt-Gen. William Godfrey Dunham Massy, CB 1906–1908: Maj-Gen. Thomas Arthur Cooke, CVO 1908–1912: Maj-Gen. Sir Henry Jenner Scobell, KCVO, CB 1912–1921: F.M. Sir Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, GCB, GCMG, GCVO (to 16th/5th Lancers).1921: Regiment disbanded1922: