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*[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
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*[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 [[Darrang Mounted Rifles|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.
