The Poona Horse is an armoured regiment in the Armoured Corps of the Indian Army. The regiment, known before independence as The Poona Horse (17th Queen...
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consisted of the 4th (Quetta) Division, the 5th (Mhow) Division, the 6th (Poona) Division, the 9th (Secunderabad) Division, and the Aden Brigade. During...
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The nucleus was from the squadron of the Poona Auxiliary Horse serving in Cutch. In 1846, the 2nd Scinde Horse was formed by splitting the regiment into...
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Vasant Kanitkar February 2014 2015 17th Horse (Poona Horse) Pradeep Singh Mehta 2015 31 June 2016 1st Horse (Skinner's Horse) Cherish Mathson 1 July 2016 30...
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February 1992 The Grenadiers Moti Dar March 1992 December 1992 17th Horse (Poona Horse) HM Khanna January 1994 August 1996 Gorkha Rifles PS Joshi September...
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Bengal, Sikkim and if needed, Bhutan. It comprises three mountain divisions, 17th (Gangtok), 20th (Binnaguri), and 27th (Kalimpong). The coat of arms consists...
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Singh died on 18 April 2023, at the age of 88. Commanding Officer, 17th Horse (Poona Horse) Commander, 14 (Independent) Armoured Brigade, Ambala from 1980...
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Lieutenant General M. L. Dar, PVSM AVSM 1 July 1995 31 July 1996 17th Horse (Poona Horse) 21 Lieutenant General Ved Prakash Malik, PVSM AVSM[5] 1 August...
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counter-attacks under the cover of a smokescreen at the pivot of the 17th Poona Horse at Jarpal. At 08:00 hours, the Pakistani 13th Lancers, equipped with...
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Singh Sekhon (Posthumously) No. 18 Squadron IAF Major Hoshiar Singh 3 Grenadiers Second Lieutenant Arun Khetarpal (Posthumously) 17th Horse (Poona Horse)...
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10 Surrinder Singh PVSM, AVSM 1 September 1993 31 August 1996 17th Horse (Poona Horse) 11 Sundararajan Padmanabhan PVSM, AVSM, VSM 1 September 1996 31...
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Singh 29 April 1986 11 July 1988 17th Horse (Poona Horse) G. S. Grewal 12 July 1988 30 June 1990 1st Horse (Skinner's Horse) Prakash Mani Tripathi 1 July...
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Dastane 2011 2012 Regiment of Artillery Rajan Bakshi 2012 May 2013 17th Horse (Poona Horse) Rakesh Sharma June 2013 2014 11th Gorkha Rifles Balwant Singh...
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Lieutenant General Rajan Bakhshi PVSM, UYSM July 2013 November 2015 17th Horse (Poona Horse) 31 Lieutenant General Balwant Singh Negi PVSM, UYSM, YSM, SM,...
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Shridhar Vaidya 1 July 1980 9th Deccan Horse N S Narahari 1986 Bombay Sappers Ajai Singh 1990 1992 17th Horse (Poona Horse) NK Kapur 1994 Rajput Regiment Baldev...
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Bombay Army (section Horse Artillery)
Light Cavalry Poona Horse 1st Scinde Horse 2nd Scinde Horse 3rd Scinde Horse Southern Mahratta Horse These were: E Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery (4 Troops)...
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Cavalry (redirect from Horse cavalry)
Probyn's Horse (now 5th Horse, Pakistan) Royal Deccan Horse (now India's The Deccan Horse) Poona Horse (now India's The Poona Horse) Scinde Horse (now India's...
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Pune district (redirect from Poona district)
Bombay-Poona line was electrified in the 1920s; this cut travel time between the cities to three hours, enabling day trips for events such as the Poona races...
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or armoured regiments. Most of them were in 1st Horse (Skinner's Horse) and 17th Horse (Poona Horse), but in present most of youth from village is recruited...
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he chose to join the Armoured Corps, and was commissioned into The Poona Horse. He did not participate in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 as he was posted...
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World War ended, Abhey Singh was transferred to the 17th Queen Victoria's Own Cavalry (The Poona Horse). In 1948, Major Abhey Singh participated in Operation...
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1947. 17th Queen Victoria's Own Poona Horse: Formed by merging 33rd Queen's Own Light Cavalry and 34th Prince Albert Victor's Own Poona Horse. Renamed...
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which he transferred to the Indian Army and the 34th P.A.V.O. Poona Horse (later 17th Q.V.O. Cavalry) in May 1918. He retired a Captain in July 1922...
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He was commissioned again in April 1951, and was posted to the Poona Horse regiment, 17th Battalion. Later he attended a training course in the United Kingdom...
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Prince Albert Victor's Own Poona Horse 35th Scinde Horse 36th Jacob's Horse 37th Lancers (Baluch Horse) 38th Central India Horse: Renamed 38th Prince of...
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Regiment 16th Light Cavalry 17th Horse (The Poona Horse) 18th Cavalry 19 Armoured Regiment 20 Lancers 21 Horse (Central India Horse) 41 Armoured Regiment 42...
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William Morris (British Army officer) (category 17th Lancers officers)
of his wounds sustained at Balaclava". Poona: a memorial tablet to him was set up at St Mary's Church in Poona inscribed: Sacred to the memory of William...
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Deccan Horse (9th Horse) at regiments.org by T.F.Mills". Archived from the original on 20 April 2007. Retrieved 2015-07-18. "The Poona Horse (17th Queen...
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Dragoon Guards 20th Deccan Horse 34th Prince Albert Victor's Own Poona Horse Signal Troop II Indian Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery N Battery, RHA, arrived...
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