32nd Lancers: Difference between revisions

From FIBIwiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Add chronology & external links
Maureene (talk | contribs)
 
(5 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown)
Line 5: Line 5:
*'''1842''' became 2nd Regiment of Bombay Light Cavalry (Lancers)
*'''1842''' became 2nd Regiment of Bombay Light Cavalry (Lancers)
*'''1903''' became the '''32nd Lancers'''
*'''1903''' became the '''32nd Lancers'''
*'''1923''' amalgamated with the 31st Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers to become 13th Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers  
*'''1923''' amalgamated with the [[31st Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers]] to become [[13th Duke of Connaught's Own Bombay Lancers|13th Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers]]
*'''1947''' allocated to Pakistan on Partition becoming 13th Lancers
*'''1947''' allocated to Pakistan on Partition becoming 13th Lancers


== External Links ==
== External Links ==
[http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armyunits/indiancavalry/indiancavalrypre1857.htm Bombay Light Cavalry] British Empire website<br>[http://www.defencejournal.com/nov99/13th-duke.htm 13th Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers] www.defencejournal.com
*[http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armyunits/indiancavalry/indiancavalrypre1857.htm Bombay Light Cavalry] British Empire website<br>
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160823193128/http://defencejournal.com/nov99/13th-duke.htm 13th Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers] by John Gaylor ''Defence Journal'' (Karachi) November 1999  defencejournal.com, now archived. An extract from  ''Sons Of John Company'' by  John Gaylor.
*[http://www.kaiserscross.com/304501/527922.html "Kurdistan 1919: Military Operations in Mesopotamian Kurdistan: South Kurdistan, May–June 1919"] by Harry Fecitt. From Harry's Sideshows kaiserscross.com
*Watercolours by  Charles James Lyall  c 1903. Brown Digital Repository, Brown University Library.
**[https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:251018/ 1846. Bombay Lancers. Officer]
**[https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:251017/ 1846. Bombay Lancers. Sowar]
**[https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:250993/ 1902. Bombay Lancers. India]
 
{{#widget:Google PlusOne
|size=small
|count=true
}}
 
 
[[Category:Indian Army Cavalry Regiments]]
[[Category:Indian Army Cavalry Regiments]]

Latest revision as of 05:53, 26 January 2018

33rd, 34th and 32nd Lancers from a painting by Major A. C. Lovett

Chronology

  • 1803 raised as Bombay Squadron of Cavalry by Colonel John Murray
  • 1803 split into 1st and 2nd Bombay Light Cavalry
  • 1842 became 2nd Regiment of Bombay Light Cavalry (Lancers)
  • 1903 became the 32nd Lancers
  • 1923 amalgamated with the 31st Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers to become 13th Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers
  • 1947 allocated to Pakistan on Partition becoming 13th Lancers

External Links