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The Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry is considered to be one of the most decorated regiment of the Indian army having won 1 Param Veer Chakra and 3 Ashok Chakra. Naib Subedar Chuni Lal of the 8th battalion Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry is one of the most decorated personnel of the Indian Army. [2]
The 26th King George's Own Light Cavalry was originally raised as the 5th Regiment Madras Native Cavalry on 23 October 1787 as part of the Madras Presidency Army. In 1788, it was re-designated as the 1st Madras Native Cavalry and in 1816 its name was changed to 1 Madras Light Cavalry.
16th Light Cavalry; 17th Horse (Poona Horse) 17th/37th Lancers; 18th Cavalry (India) 18th/19th Lancers; 19th Lancers; 20th Lancers (British Indian Army) 20th Lancers (Pakistan) 20th/29th Horse; 21st Horse (Central India Horse) 21st/23rd Cavalry; 22nd/25th Cavalry; 26th/30th King George's Own Light Cavalry; 33rd/34th Cavalry; 35th/36th Cavalry ...
The 16th Infantry Brigade (12th and 34th Infantry Regiments), the 1st Battalion, 16th Field Artillery Regiment, the 15th Ordnance Company, and the 8th Tank Company (Light) were assigned to the division in June 1923 as Regular Army active units, and formed the force from which the remainder of the division would be reactivated in the event of war.
The 3rd Cavalry Regiment is a cavalry regiment of the Indian Army formed from the 5th and 8th Cavalry regiments in 1922. It served on the North West Frontier and during World War I and World War II , in British Indian service.
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Charge of the Light Brigade by Richard Caton Woodville Jr.. The charge was made by the Light Brigade of the British cavalry, which consisted of the 4th and 13th Light Dragoons, the 17th Lancers, and the 8th and 11th Hussars, [1] under the command of Major General James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan.
When the 26th (Cameronian) Regiment of Foot, and 90th Perthshire Light Infantry amalgamated to form The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) in 1881 under the Cardwell-Childers reforms of the British Armed Forces, seven pre-existent militia and volunteer battalions of Lanarkshire and Dumfries and Galloway were integrated into the structure of the regiment.