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==External  Links==
==External  Links==
*[http://www.koi-hai.com/Default.aspx?id=485075  Assam Valley Light Horse] from Koi-hai.com including many photos from  various era.
*[http://www.koi-hai.com/Default.aspx?id=485075  Assam Valley Light Horse] from Koi-hai.com including many photos from  various era.
*[http://www.lokatantra.com/media/2884/assam-valley-light-horse.html  Photograph AVLH 1930’s] from Lokantra.com
*[http://www.lokatantra.com/media/2884/assam-valley-light-horse.html  Photograph AVLH 1930s] from Lokantra.com
*[http://www.stepneyrobarts.co.uk/5459.htm Col Sir Charles Thorp Jessop CIE, VD] from  “Ancestors of David Robarts”. A tea  planter in Assam who joined the [[Sibsagar  Mounted Rifles]] in 1886  and transferred to the Assam Valley Mounted Rifles in which he served  for more than 20 years; the last ten years as Commandant.
*[http://www.stepneyrobarts.co.uk/5459.htm Col Sir Charles Thorp Jessop CIE, VD] from  “Ancestors of David Robarts”. A tea  planter in Assam who joined the [[Sibsagar  Mounted Rifles]] in 1886  and transferred to the Assam Valley Mounted Rifles in which he served  for more than 20 years; the last ten years as Commandant.



Revision as of 13:26, 6 November 2010

The Assam Valley Light Horse were a volunteer corps and auxiliary regiment based in Assam.

Chronology

Note that the regiment called the Assam Rifles is a different regiment, which originally consisted of Assam Military Police battalions.

Details

  • Motto - "Semper Paratus"

In 1901:[2]

  • Uniform - Khaki drill with steel shoulder chains
  • Mess uniform - Blue with white facings
  • Headquarters - Dibrugarh

Detachments at:

  • Doom Dooma
  • Panitola
  • Margherita
  • Moran
  • Sonari
  • Sibsagar
  • Jorhat
  • Panbarrz
  • Numalighur
  • North Lakhimpur
  • Salonah
  • Gauhati
  • Tezpur
  • Bishnath
  • Mangaldai

By 1940:[1]

  • Uniform - Blue
  • Facings - White
  • Badge - A.V.L.H.

Service

A detachment consisting of one officer and 12 men operating a maxim gun were taken on the 1911-1912 expedition against the Abors.[3][4] The men were nicknamed Lumsden's Lambs.[5]

British Library holdings

  • Recollections of a varied life Mss Eur Photo Eur 225 copy of memoir by Maj Ronald Herbert Cronin (b 1897), including details of his career with the Assam Frontier Tea Company in Assam and Ranchi 1922-1941 and 1946-1958, and of his service with the Assam Valley Light Horse from 1922, and the Assam Regiment during the Second World War.

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Jackson, Major Donovan India's Army (1940)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Indian Army List 1st Sept 1901
  3. In Abor Jungles of North East India, Angus Hamilton (1912) p123. The book lists those men involved.
  4. *History of Upper Assam, Upper Burmah and North-Eastern Frontier, Leslie Waterfield Shakespear (1914) p121
  5. Hamilton, p126

External Links

Historical books online