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*This [http://britishbuttonsociety.org/ButtonIdentification/PreviewImages/indian-button2.jpg button] was identified as Surma Valley Light Horse in item 30 from the [http://britishbuttonsociety.org/ButtonIdentification/index02.htm British Button Society]
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/32157648@N08/5135073788/ Photograph of a memorial inscription] (flickr.com) mentions Charles Thorp Jessop, Commandant of the Surma Valley Light Horse, died 2 July 1915 aged 56
*Victorian Wars Forum thread<ref>Victorian Wars Forum [http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopicindex.php?f=18&t=962#p11661 thread]</ref> which includes reference to the service of the SVLH in the [[Manipur]] Expedition of 1891 which led to the award of the India General Service Medal, 1854-95 with the clasp ‘N. E. Frontier 1891’. A later post advises the definitive work is the book by William Henry Sidney Wood ''Through Fifty Years: A History of the Surma Valley Light Horse'' mentioned in the British Library holdings above, which includes a list of medals awarded. This book is available in a [http://www.naval-military-press.com/through-fifty-years-a-history-of-the-surma-valey-light-horse-1837-1930.html reprint editionVictorian Wars Forum].
*Long Service Medals of Second Lieutenant J. E. Aird, Surma Valley Light Horse, a Tea Planter & Manager of the Deundi Estate, Sylhet,[http://www.neatemedals.co.uk/medals/catalog/product/gallery/image/2972/id/789/ 1], [http://www.neatemedals.co.uk/medals/catalog/product/gallery/image/2969/id/789 2], [http://www.neatemedals.co.uk/medals/catalog/product/gallery/image/2970/id/789 3] from [http://www.neatemedals.co.uk/medals/a-colonial-officer-s-long-service-medal-pair-to-second-lieutenant-j-e-aird-surma-valley-light-horse-a-tea-planter-manager-of-the-defundi-estate-sylhet-india.html neatemedals.co.uk] .
**Also group photographs: [http://www.neatemedals.co.uk/medals/catalog/product/gallery/id/789/image/2971/ Photographs Officers Surma Valley Light Horse c 1895-1903], [http://www.neatemedals.co.uk/medals/catalog/product/gallery/id/789/image/2973/ Photographs Officers Surma Valley Light Horse c 1895-1903]
