17th Cavalry

Chronology

• 1857 raised at Muttra as the Muttra Horse
• 1857 became the Muttra Police Corps
• 1858 became the Rohilkhand Auxiliary Police Levy
• 1858 became Robarts' Horse
• 1861 became 17th Regiment of Bengal Cavalry
• 1882 disbanded
• 1885 re-raised at Meean Meer by Col E H E Kauntze
• 1900 became 17th Regiment of Bengal Lancers
• 1901 became 17th Bengal Lancers
• 1903 became 17th Cavalry
• 1921 amalgamated with 37th Lancers (Baluch Horse) to form 17th/37th Lancers
• 1922 became 15th Lancers

Battle Honours

• Afghanistan 1878-80
• Afghanistan 1919

Regimental History

• The Star and Crescent: being the story of the 17th Cavalry from 1858 to 1922 by Francis C. C. Yeats-Brown. Published at Allahabad 1927. Available at the British Library.

External Links

• 17th Cavalry Google Books
• "The 17th Cavalry East Africa Squadron 1915 – 1916" by Harry Fecitt April 14, 2011. gweaa.com

Historical books online

• Diary of a Journey across Tibet by Captain Hamilton Bower 17th Bengal Cavalry 1894 Archive.org.

• Bengal Lancer by Francis Yeats-Brown 1930 Archive.org. The book below, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer appears to be the American title for the same book. The book is a memoir of Yeats-Brown's time in India from 1905 to 1914.
• Francis Yeats-Brown 1886-1944 by John Evelyn Wrench 1948. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.

Recommended Reading

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer by Francis Yeats-Brown
Published by Long Riders' Guild Press (December 2001) ISBN 1590480996 and ISBN 978-1590480991
See Military reading list for a review of this book.