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*[[2nd Afghan War|Afghanistan 1878-80]]
*[[3rd Burma War|Burma 1885-87]]
==Regimental history==''History of 8th King George V.'s Own Light Cavalry'' by H. G. Rawlinson. [With plates.] Published 1948. Available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01001795331 == External Links links ==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8th_King_George's_Own_Light_Cavalry 8th King George's Own Light Cavalry] Wikipedia
*[http://www.orbat.info/cimh/regiments/8CAVALRY/8th%20Cavalry.html 8th Light Cavalry Regiment: A Brief History 1787 – 2005]. orbat.info.*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140808040827/http://www.js-ww1.bham.ac.uk/articles/issue3_Connelly.pdf "The British Campaign in Aden, 1914-1918"] by Mark Connelly ''Journal of the Centre for First World War Studies Vol. 1, No. 3, 2005''. pages 65-96, now archived. Includes brief mention of 26/King George's Own Light Cavalry
*[http://www.kaiserscross.com/304501/530822.html "Military Operations in Aden 1914-1915"] by Harry Fecitt, from [http://www.kaiserscross.com/304501/home.html Harry’s Sideshows] kaiserscross.com. Includes mention of the 26th (King George’s Own) Light Cavalry.
*A newspaper article in two segments "Call to arms at the gateway to Afghanistan" by Col L T Firbanks ''The Straits Times'', 3 August 1980, page 4. Newspapers-Singapore Government. Retrieved 14 October 2014. [http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19800803-1.2.96.4.11.aspx Segment 1], [http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19800803-1.2.96.4.15.aspx Segment 2], [http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Page/straitstimes19800803-1.1.34.aspx Whole page]
:The author was an officer in the 8th King George V’s Own Light Cavalry , better known as “The 8th", between January and June 1940 based at Kohat, when it took part in an action in Waziristan. The 8th was one of the last fully horsed Regiments in the Indian Cavalry, the remainder having been mechanised.
*[https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=2013-10-20-9-8 Image of shoulder title and history , 1st Madras Lancers, 1886-1901] National Army Museum
===Historical books online===
**[https://archive.org/stream/MadrasSoldier#page/n149/mode/2up Cavalry] page 132
[[Category:Indian Army Cavalry Regiments]]
