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*'''1906''' absorbed the [[Shillong Volunteer Rifles]] on 1st May<ref name=Jack />
*'''1906''' absorbed the [[Shillong Volunteer Rifles]] on 1st May<ref name=Jack />


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


==Details==
==Details==
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==Service==
==Service==
A detachment consisting of one officer and 12 men operating a maxim gun were taken on the 1911-1912 expedition against the Abors.<ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=YndiBMkYbIoC&pg=PA123 ''In Abor Jungles of North East India''], Angus Hamilton (1912) p123. The book lists those men involved.</ref><ref>*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofupperas00shak#page/120/mode/2up/search/general+Bower  ''History of Upper Assam, Upper Burmah and North-Eastern  Frontier''], Leslie Waterfield  Shakespear (1914) p121</ref>  The men were nicknamed Lumsden's Lambs.<ref>Hamilton, p126</ref>
A detachment consisting of one officer and 12 men operating a maxim gun were taken on the 1911-1912 expedition against the Abors.<ref> [https://archive.org/stream/inaborjunglesbei00hami#page/122/mode/2up  Page 123] ''In Abor Jungles 
being an account of the Abor Expedition, the Mishmi Mission and the Miri Mission''] 
by Angus Hamilton. 1912 Archive.org. The book lists those men involved.</ref><ref>*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofupperas00shak#page/120/mode/2up/search/general+Bower  ''History of Upper Assam, Upper Burmah and North-Eastern  Frontier''], Leslie Waterfield  Shakespear (1914) p121</ref>  The men were nicknamed Lumsden's Lambs.<ref>Hamilton, p126</ref>


==British Library holdings==
==British Library holdings==
*[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-msseur_18&cid=337#337 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.
*[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-msseur_18&cid=337#337 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==
<references  />


==External  Links==
==External  Links==
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===Historical books  online===
===Historical books  online===
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historyoflumsden00pearrich#page/n9/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, p4 advises that Lt Col 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 1887 formation and later became commandant of the Assam Valley Light Horse until 1893.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historyoflumsden00pearrich#page/n9/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, p4 advises that Lt Col 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 1887 formation and later became commandant of the Assam Valley Light Horse until 1893.
   
*[https://archive.org/details/inaborjunglesbei00hami ''In Abor Jungles 
being an account of the Abor Expedition, the Mishmi Mission and the Miri Mission''] 
by Angus Hamilton. With illustrations and a [https://archive.org/stream/inaborjunglesbei00hami#page/n421/mode/2up map]. 1912 Archive.org
 
==Notes==
<references />
 
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Revision as of 12:28, 9 January 2014

The Assam Valley Light Horse were a volunteer corps and auxiliary regiment based in Assam, consisting mainly of tea planters from the area.

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.

External Links

Historical books online

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. Page 123 In Abor Jungles 
being an account of the Abor Expedition, the Mishmi Mission and the Miri Mission] 
by Angus Hamilton. 1912 Archive.org. 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