36th Jacob's Horse

From a painting by Major A.C. Lovett

Chronology

• 1846 raised by Lieut John Jacob as 2nd Regiment of Scinde Irregular Horse
• 1860 became the 2nd Regiment of Scinde Horse
• 1861 became the 9th Regiment of Scinde Silladar Cavalry
• 1861 became the 2nd Regiment of Scinde Horse
• 1885 became the 6th Bombay Cavalry (Jacob-Ka-Rissallah)
• 1888 became the 6th Bombay Cavalry (Jacob’s Horse)
• 1903 became the 36th Jacob's Horse
• 1922 amalgamated with the 35th Scinde Horse to become the 14th Prince of Wales's Own Scinde Horse
• 1947 allocated to India on Partition
• 1950 became 14 Scinde Horse

Biographies

Entries in the Dictionary of Indian Biography 1906
John Jacob (1812-1858)

See also

• Scinde Horse
• Jacobabad

External Links

• 36th Jacob's Horse Wikipedia
• John Jacob Wikipedia
• 14th Prince of Wales's Own Scinde Horse Wikipedia
• Image: Kurta made for Jemadar Sadda Singh, The Scinde Horse (14th Prince of Wales's Own Cavalry), 1937 (c) nam.ac.uk. Retrieved 26 September 2014

Historical books online

• 2nd Regiment of Scinde Horse was raised in 1846 Allen’s Indian Mail 1846, page 203
• Scinde Irregular Horse Record Book www.archive.org
• Record book of the Scinde irregular horse Volume II 8th October 1851 to 13th June 1855 1856 Google Books
• Obituary of John Jacob, commander of the Scinde Horse, died 1858 Google Books
• General John Jacob Commandant of the Sind Irregular Horse and Founder of Jacobabad by Alexander Innes Shand 1901 Archive.org