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*'''1906''' absorbed the [[Shillong Volunteer Rifles]] on 1st May<ref name=Jack />
Note that the regiment called the [[Assam Rifles ]] is a different regiment, which originally consisted of Assam Military Police battalions.
==Details==
==Service==
A detachment consisting of one officer and 12 men operating a maxim gun were taken on the 1911-1912 expedition against the Abors.<ref>[httphttps://booksarchive.google.com.auorg/stream/inaborjunglesbei00hami#page/122/mode/books?id=YndiBMkYbIoC&pg=PA123 2up Page 123] ''In Abor Jungles
being an account of North East Indiathe Abor Expedition, the Mishmi Mission and the Miri Mission''],
by Angus Hamilton (. 1912) p123Archive.org. The book lists those men involved.</ref><ref>*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofupperas00shak#page/120/mode/2up/search/general+Bower ''History of Upper Assam, Upper Burmah and North-Eastern Frontier''], Leslie Waterfield Shakespear (1914) p121</ref> The men were nicknamed Lumsden's Lambs.<ref>Hamilton, p126</ref>
==British Library holdings==
*[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-msseur_18&cid=337#337 Recollections of a varied life] '''Mss Eur Photo Eur 225''' copy of memoir by Maj Ronald Herbert Cronin (b 1897), including details of his career with the Assam Frontier Tea Company in Assam and Ranchi 1922-1941 and 1946-1958, and of his service with the Assam Valley Light Horse from 1922, and the Assam Regiment during the Second World War.
==External Links==
===Historical books online===
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historyoflumsden00pearrich#page/n9/mode/2up ''The history of Lumsden's Horse; a complete record of the corps from its formation to its disbandment''] by Henry H. S Pearse, p4 advises that Lt Col Dugald Mactavish Lumsden, commander of [[Lumsden's Horse]] in South Africa in 1900, was appointed Captain in the [[Darrang Mounted Rifles|Durrung Mounted Rifles]] on its 1887 formation and later became commandant of the Assam Valley Light Horse until 1893.
*[https://archive.org/details/inaborjunglesbei00hami ''In Abor Jungles
being an account of the Abor Expedition, the Mishmi Mission and the Miri Mission'']
by Angus Hamilton. With illustrations and a [https://archive.org/stream/inaborjunglesbei00hami#page/n421/mode/2up map]. 1912 Archive.org ==Notes==<references /> {{#widget:Google PlusOne|size=small|count=true}}
