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== External Links ==
== External Links ==
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=gLGt_qGKMq4C&pg=PA30&lpg=PA30&dq=17th+Bengal+Lancers&source=bl&ots=UcDRoQJs3E&sig=j6-x5PDAJcdwEKk7O4p1oS6GukA&hl=en&ei=e1UVSrWwA9_KjAf04-WGDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6 17th Cavalry] Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=gLGt_qGKMq4C&pg=PA30&lpg=PA30&dq=17th+Bengal+Lancers&source=bl&ots=UcDRoQJs3E&sig=j6-x5PDAJcdwEKk7O4p1oS6GukA&hl=en&ei=e1UVSrWwA9_KjAf04-WGDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6 17th Cavalry] Google Books
*[https://www.facebook.com/UnderEveryLeaf/photos_stream#!/photo.php?fbid=391455450963464&set=pb.390531907722485.-2207520000.1371289676.&type=3&theater Photograph: 17th Cavalry and 37th Lancers on amalgamation as 15th Lancers, Lahore 1922]  “Under Every Leaf” on Facebook
 


== Recommended Reading ==
== Recommended Reading ==

Revision as of 09:40, 19 January 2014

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

Battle Honours

External Links


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.