36th Jacob's Horse


The 36th Jacob's Horse were a unit of cavalry of the British Indian Army.

Origins

They were raised by Lieut. John Jacob of the Bombay Artillery, as a unit of Irregular Horse, originally in 1839 to patrol the area of 'Scinde' and its restive frontier with Balochistan. They then served in guarding the marches of Southern Afghanistan during the First Anglo-Afghan War and later under Sir Charles Napier in the annexation of Scinde/Sindh.
Like all regiments of the Indian Army, the 36th Jacob's Horse underwent many name changes in the various reorganisations. They are listed below.

History

The 2nd Scinde Horse, or Jacob's Horse had the following principal battle honours, as a regiment of British Indian cavalry, until the Independence and Partition of India and Pakistan in 1947:
Meeanee, Hyderabad, Cuthchee ; Mooltan, Goojerat, Punjaub ; Central India; Afghanistan 1878-80; Morvai, Cambrai 1917, France and Flanders 1914–18, Megiddo, Sharon, Damascus, Palestine 1918; North West Frontier, India 1914–15, 1918. They did not receive any battle honours of the Second World War.