Calcutta Light Horse: Difference between revisions

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The Calcutta Light Horse were an auxiliary regiment under the Bengal command.

1872 raised as Calcutta Volunteer Lancers 22nd August^[1]
1881 reconstituted as the Calcutta Mounted Volunteer Rifles on 7th October^[1]
1886 redesignated Calcutta Mounted Rifles on 1st October?^[2]
1887 renamed Calcutta Light Horse on 20th May?^[2]
1901 absorbed Central Bengal Light Horse, 1st November^[1]

c1901: Khaki drill^[3]
c1940: Uniform - Blue, Facings - White, Badge - Eight pointed star with crown, "C.L.H." and the motto in a scroll, Motto - Defence not Defiance"^[1]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Jackson, Major Donovan India's Army (1940)
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 The 1901 Indian Army List states that the corps were renamed Calcutta light Horse on 14th September 1886.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Indian Army List 1st Sept 1901

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