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Bengal Yeomanry Cavalry
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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