Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills
Page created 1 June 2004. Corrected and updated 21.06.2004
1857-1921
India  
Note:This is a battalion history of the Regular Army. See the main regimental page for full lineage and other information.
Colour Key
Lineage
War service
Overseas service
Home service
 
       
  1857 Hodson's Horse
  1857 Sepoy rebellion
  1858.08.26 1st Regiment of Hodson's Horse
  1859 Fyzabad
  1861. 9th Regiment of Bengal Cavalry
     
     
  1878 Malta  
       
     
       
  1885. converted to lancers
  1885 Sudan
  1886. 9th Regiment of Bengal Lancers
     
<1895> Rawalpindi  
  1895 Chitral serving in detachments
  1897 Rawalpindi?
<1900> Mooltan
  1903 9th Regiment of Hodson's Horse
<1911> Cawnpore  
  1914.08 Ambala Ambala Cav Bde
  1914.10.02 at sea (embarked at Bombay?)
  1914.11.07 France: Marseilles
  1914.11.26 France and Flanders Ambala Cav Bde, 1 Ind Cav Div
  1915.09.15 France and Flanders Ambala Cav Bde, 2 Ind Cav Div
  1916.11.26 France and Flanders Ambala Cav Bde, 5 Cav Div
  1918.02 Egypt
  1918.04.24 Egypt 5 Mtd Bde, 2 Mtd Div
  1918.07.18 Egypt 5 Mtd Bde, 5 Cav Div
  1918.09 Palestine 5 Mtd Bde, 5 Cav Div
  1918.11 Palestine occupation force
  1920.04? Egypt
  1921.01.01 India: Ambala
  1921 Multan
  1921.09.03 amalgamated at Multan with 10th Duke of Cambridge's Own Lancers (Hodson's Horse), to form 4th Duke of Cambridge's Own Horse