'7th Bombay Lancers (Baluch Horse)', 1895 (c)

Watercolour drawing by Alfred Crowdy Lovett (1862-1919), 1895 (c).

Sowar, 7th Bombay Lancers (Baluch Horse), review order, 1895 (c).

The 7th Bombay Lancers was first raised in 1885 by Major A L McNair at Shikarpur, Scinde as the 7th Bombay Cavalry (Jacob-Ka-Rissallah) and was recruited largely from men of the 3rd Scinde Horse (Belooch Horse), which had been disbanded in 1882.

The regiment was an all-Muslim unit consisting of Pathans and Baluchis, and in 1886 was renamed the 7th Bombay Cavalry (Belooch Horse). In 1890, the regiment was reclassed and renamed as the 7th Bombay Lancers (Belooch Horse) and under Lord Kitchener's 1903 Indian Army reforms, Bombay cavalry regiments had thirty added to their existing number, so it was retitled as the 37th Bombay Lancers (Baluch Horse).