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*[http://www.orbat.info/cimh/regiments/8CAVALRY/8th%20Cavalry.html 8th Light Cavalry Regiment: A Brief History 1787 – 2005]. orbat.info. During WW1 "30th Lancers saw action in France where, though being a cavalry regiment, it received a good taste of trench warfare. It then went on to extinguish the embers of an Arab rebellion in Iraq, before going into action in Persia".
===Historical books online===
*''History of the Thirtieth Lancers Gordons Horse'' by E A W Stotherd 1911 is available to read online on the Digital Library of India as a [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/278870 pdf to download]. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.278870 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. The preface states that a great deal of information will be found about the other three regiments of the Hyderabad Contingent Cavalry, as in many despatches they seem to have been regarded as one large corps.
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