Assam Valley Light Horse

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

Chronology

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.

British Library holdings

  • 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.

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

External Links

  • Assam Valley Light Horse from Koi-hai.com including many photos from various era.
  • Photograph AVLH 1930’s from Lokantra.com
  • 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