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*[http://www.koi-hai.com/AVLH.html Assam Valley Light Horse] from Koi-hai.com has items  on the Surma Valley Light Horse including the death of former Commandant, Lieutenant Colonel Eden Currie Showers, in South Africa in 1900 where he was 2nd in command of [[Lumsden's Horse]]
*[http://www.koi-hai.com/AVLH.html Assam Valley Light Horse] from Koi-hai.com has items  on the Surma Valley Light Horse including the death of former Commandant, Lieutenant Colonel Eden Currie Showers, in South Africa in 1900 where he was 2nd in command of [[Lumsden's Horse]]
*[http://www.hussards-photos.com/UK/UK_India.htm  Photographs of  the Surma Valley Light Horse] from Hussards-photos.com (scroll down)
*[http://www.hussards-photos.com/UK/UK_India.htm  Photographs of  the Surma Valley Light Horse] from Hussards-photos.com (scroll down)
*[http://shangrilajournals.com/shangrilajournals.com/Assam%20-%20Where.html Photograph, late 1930’s] from Shangrilajournals.com
*Dr T d’O Partridge, Civil Surgeon of Cachar was Commandant of the [[Lakhimpur Mounted Rifles| Lakimpur Rifles]] 1882-84 and served for ten years in the Surma Valley Light Horse, retiring with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. His war services included the [[Chin Lushai Expedition 1889-90]].  [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2433527/?page=1 Obituary BMJ June 5,1897]
*Dr T d’O Partridge, Civil Surgeon of Cachar was Commandant of the [[Lakhimpur Mounted Rifles| Lakimpur Rifles]] 1882-84 and served for ten years in the Surma Valley Light Horse, retiring with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. His war services included the [[Chin Lushai Expedition 1889-90]].  [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2433527/?page=1 Obituary BMJ June 5,1897]



Revision as of 02:35, 7 April 2010

Formed as the Sylhet Volunteer Rifle Corps on 22nd October 1880 and later became the Cachar and Sylhet Mounted Rifles on the 6th April 1883. Designated Surma Valley Light Horse 13th August 1886.

  • Uniform - Khaki
  • Motto - "Non Sibi Sed Patriae"

British Library holdings

  • Nineteenth annual report of the Surma Valley Light Horse, 1901-1902.
  • Through Fifty Years. A history of the Surma Valley Light Horse by William Henry Sydney Wood . 1930
  • Experiences in Chittagong Riots - April 1930: account by Alexander Burnett, tea planter and trooper in the Surma Valley Light Horse, of the rioting in Chittagong and the Armoury Raid, 1930. Mss Eur C806

External Links

Historical books online