18th King Edward VII's Own Cavalry [India]

Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills

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Page created 1 September 2000. Corrected and updated 02.06.2006

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	18th King Edward VII's Own Cavalry
	India

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	1921	6th/7th Cavalry formed by amalgamation of 6th King Edward's Own Cavalry, and 7th Hariana Lancers
	1922	18th King Edward's Own Cavalry
	1936	18th King Edward VII's Own Cavalry
	1947.08	allocated to India at partition and independence; Kaimkhani sqn transferred to Probyn's Horse; Sikh sqn transferred from Prince Albert Victor's Own Cavalry
	1948.01?	Sikh sqn (late of Prince Albert Victor's Own Cavalry) transferred to 3rd Cavalry; new Hindustani Mussalman sqn transferred from 2nd Royal Lancers
	1950	18th Cavalry


		The Indian Army's 18th Cavalry Regiment Prior to it's first North African Campaign, by Adam Geibel


	[combined battle honours of 6th King Edward's Own Cavalry, and 7th Hariana Lancers, plus:] The Great War:¹ Somme 1916, Morval, Cambrai 1917, France and Flanders 1914-18, Megiddo, Sharon, Damascus, Palestine 1918, Shaiba, Kut-al-Amara 1915, Ctesiphon, Tigris 1916, Mesopotamia 1915-16 The Second World War: El Mechili, Defence of Tobruk, The Kennels, North Africa 1940-43 Jammu and Kashmir 1965, Tilkapur-Muhadipur, Punjab 1965 1. awarded 1926 for services of predecessor regiments [q.v.]

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	Colonel:

	1931.10.09	Col. J. K. Tod, CMG


	Honorary Colonel:

	1946.11.11	Adm. Sir Walter H. Cowan, KCB, DSO, MVO


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