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==British Library holdings==
*[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-msseur_18&cid=337#337 APAC Catalogue entry] Mss Eur Photo Eur 225 'Recollections of a varied life': 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.
==External Links==
*[http://www.koi-hai.com/AVLH.html 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.stepneyrobarts.co.uk/5459.htm Col Sir Charles Thorp Jessop CIE, VD] from “Ancestors of David Robarts”. He was a tea planter in Assam where he joined the [[Sibsagar Mounted Rifles]] in December 1886 In 1891 he served as a volunteer in a frontier expedition into the nearby Naga Hills. The next year he transferred to the Assam Valley Mounted Rifles which subsequently became the Assam Valley Light Horse in which he served for more than 20 years; the last ten years as Commandant
===Historical books online===
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historyoflumsden00pearrich#page/4/mode/2up ''The history of Lumsden's Horse; a complete record of the corps from its formation to its disbandment''] by Henry H. S Pearse , page 4 advises that Lt Colonel Dugald Mactavish Lumsden, commander of [[Lumsden's Horse]] in South Africa in 1900, was appointed Captain in the [[Durrung Mounted Rifles]] on its formation in 1887 and later became commandant of the Assam Valley Light Horse, until he left India in 1893.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=YndiBMkYbIoC&pg=PA123 ''In Abor Jungles''], page 123 by Angus Hamilton, gives details of the Assam Valley Light Horse’s participation in the 1911-1912 expedition against the Abors. They were known as Lumsden’s Lambs.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofupperas00shak#page/120/mode/2up/search/general+Bower ''History of Upper Assam, Upper Burmah and North-Eastern Frontier''], page 121 by Leslie Waterfield Shakespear also gives details of the Assam Valley Light Horse’s participation in the 1911-1912 expedition against the Abors.
