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created 1 September 2000. Corrected and updated
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The Poona
Horse (17th Queen Victoria's Own Cavalry)
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| 1921 | 33rd/34th
Cavalry formed by amalgamation of 33rd Queen Victoria's Own Light Cavalry, and 34th Prince Albert Victor's Own Poona Horse |
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| 1922 | 17th Queen Victoria's Own Poona Horse | |
| 1927 | The Poona Horse (17th Queen Victoria's Own Cavalry) | |
| 1947.08 | allocated to India at partition and independence; Kaimkhani sqn transferred to The Guides Cavalry in exchange for its Sikh sqn | |
| 1950 | 17th Horse | |
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[combined battle honours of 33rd Queen Victoria's Own Light Cavalry, and 34th Prince Albert Victor's Own Poona Horse, plus:] The Great War:1 La Bassée 1914, Armentières 1914, Somme 1916, Bazentin, Flers-Courcelette, Cambrai 1917, France and Flanders 1914-17, Megiddo, Sharon, Damascus, Palestine 1918, Shaiba, Ctesiphon, Tigris 1916, Mesopotamia 1914-16 Afghanistan 19191 The Second World War: North Africa 1940-43 Phillora, Buttur Dograndi, Punjab 1965, Basantar River, Punjab 1971 1. awarded 1926 for services of predecessor regiments [q.v.] |
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