Bengal Yeomanry Cavalry

The Bengal Yeomanry Cavalry was a volunteer force raised after the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny from young military officers just arrived from Britain.

Chronology

• 1857 raised in Calcutta in July with 258 men under Col Richardson CB
• 1861 disbanded

External links

• Bengal Yeomanry Cavalry British Empire website
• Bengal Yeomanry Cavalry BritishMedals.net
• Lieutenant Charles Albert Copland Lahore Light Horse (late Bengal Yeomanry Cavalry) BritishMedals.net

Historical books online

• Volunteering in India: or, an authentic narrative of the military services of the Bengal Yeomanry Cavalry during the Indian Mutiny, and Sepoy War by John Tulloch Nash 1893 Archive.org
• The London Gazette of September 30, 1859 reported: India Office, September 27, 1859. The Secretary of State for India in Council has received the following Papers:... No. 5: No. 1043 of 1859 from Bulletins and other state intelligence. Compiled and arranged from the official documents published in the London Gazette. 1859 Part 2, July to December Google Books