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Page created 1 September 2000. Corrected and updated 13.12.2005
 
 
The Guides Cavalry
(10th Queen Victoria's Own
Frontier Force)
 
India / Pakistan  
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How to find information about individuals who served in this corps
 
1922 10th Queen Victoria's Own Corps of Guides Cavalry (Frontier Force)
formed by reorganisation of the cavalry element of Queen Victoria's Own Corps of Guides (Frontier Force) (Lumsden's)
1927 The Guides Cavalry (10th Queen Victoria's Own Frontier Force)
1947.08 allocated to Pakistan at partition and independence; Dogra sqn transferred to Hodson's Horse (and subsequently to Scinde Horse) in exchange for its Punjabi Mussalman sqn; Sikh sqn transferred to Poona Horse in exchange for its Kaimkhani sqn; Ranghar sqn transferred from Scinde Horse
1956 The Guides Cavalry (Frontier Force)
pip The Guides Cavalry (10th Queen Victoria's Own Frontier Force), by John Gaylor (Defence Journal)
pip The Guides Cavalry (10th Queen Victoria's Own Frontier Force), by Stephen Lewis.
   
   

[inherited battle honours of Queen Victoria's Own Corps of Guides (Frontier Force) (Lumsden's), plus:]

The Great War:1 Khan Baghdadi, Sharqat, Mesopotamia 1917-18, N.W. Frontier India 1915

The Second World War:  Bir Hacheim, Minqar Qaim, Deir el Shein, North Africa 1940-43

1. awarded 1926 for services of predecessor regiments [q.v.]

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pip Names Found in The Story of The Guides, by Cathy Day.
 
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UK flag The Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own)
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