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

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*[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==*''Navvies To The Fourteenth Army'' by AH Pilcher [http://www.koi-hainationalarchives.com/AVLHgov.html Assam Valley Light Horse] from Koi-hai.com including many photos from various era.*[http:uk/a2a/wwwrecords.lokatantra.com/media/2884/assamaspx?cat=059-valleymsseur_12&cid=5-light16-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/historyoflumsden00pearrich500#page/4/mode/2up 5-16-500 '''The history of LumsdenMss Eur F174/1316's Horse; a complete record of the corps from its formation to its disbandment'' 1947] by Henry H. S Pearse Other sources<ref> marelibri.com, page 4 advises that Lt Colonel Dugald Mactavish Lumsden, commander no longer accessible</ref> of [[Lumsden's Horse]] indicate this book (55 pages) was published in South Africa in 1900, Calcutta for Private Circulation and was illustrated with black and white plates and line drawing maps. The author was appointed Captain in Col: A H Pilcher who at the [[Darrang Mounted Rifles|Durrung Mounted Rifles]] on its formation in 1887 and later became commandant outbreak of the second world war commanded The Assam Valley Light Horse, until . In March 1942 he left India was put in 1893.*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=YndiBMkYbIoC&pg=PA123 ''In Abor Jungles''], page 123 by Angus Hamilton, gives details charge of raising a labour force from the Assam Valley Light Horse’s participation in Tea Plantations to build the Manipur/Burma Road to evacuate the 1911-1912 expedition against 14th Army and also the Abors. They many civilians who were known as Lumsden’s Lambsfleeing Burma.*Eventually he raised and commanded a labour force of 82000 <ref> Scroll down to comments section [http://www.archivebbc.orgco.uk/streamhistory/historyofupperas00shak#pageww2peopleswar/120stories/mode40/2upa2776340.shtml Jungle Work: A Civil Engineer in Burma] BBC ww2peopleswar</search/general+Bower ''History of Upper Assam, Upper Burmah and North-Eastern Frontier'']ref> Text from this book is available online, page 121 by Leslie Waterfield Shakespear also gives details of the Assam Valley Light Horse’s participation in the 1911-1912 expedition against the Aborsrefer below.