Assam Valley Light Horse
The Assam Valley Light Horse were a volunteer corps and auxiliary regiment based in Assam.
Chronology
- 1891 raised as the Assam Valley Mounted Rifles on 6th November when the Lakhimpur Mounted Rifles, Sibsagar Mounted Rifles, Darrang Mounted Rifles, Nowgong Mounted Rifles and Gauhati Rifles amalgamated[1]
- 1896 renamed Assam Valley Light Horse on 25th September[2]
- 1906 absorbed the Shillong Volunteer Rifles on 1st May[1]
Details
- Motto - "Semper Paratus"
In 1901:[2]
- Uniform - Khaki drill with steel shoulder chains
- Mess uniform - Blue with white facings
- Headquarters - Dibrugarh
Detachments at:
- Doom Dooma
- Panitola
- Margherita
- Moran
- Sonari
- Sibsagar
- Jorhat
- Panbarrz
- Numalighur
- North Lakhimpur
- Salonah
- Gauhati
- Tezpur
- Bishnath
- Mangaldai
By 1940:[1]
- Uniform - Blue
- Facings - White
- Badge - A.V.L.H.
Notes
External Links
- Assam Valley Light Horse from Koi-hai.com including many photos from various era.
- Photograph AVLH 1930’s from Lokantra.com
- Col Sir Charles Thorp Jessop CIE, VD from “Ancestors of David Robarts”. He was a tea planter in Assam where he joined the Sibsagar Mounted Rifles in December 1886 In 1891 he served as a volunteer in a frontier expedition into the nearby Naga Hills. The next year he transferred to the Assam Valley Mounted Rifles which subsequently became the Assam Valley Light Horse in which he served for more than 20 years; the last ten years as Commandant