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On the Stamp
A horseman with a pennant and a modern tank, with smaller tanks behind them, and the words “18th Cavalry” in Hindi and English, on a ₹6.50 stamp.
18th Cavalry
India Post issued this ₹6.50 stamp on 14 November 1991 for the regiment’s 150th year. Its two parent regiments, the 8th and 16th Bengal Irregular Cavalry, were raised in 1842 and 1846, and they were amalgamated as 18 Cavalry in the early 1920s. It fought in France, North Africa, Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan and Burma, and in the wars of 1965 and 1971. India Post’s folder records 29 battle honours, the second highest number of any unit of the Army, and 3 Victoria Crosses. The stamp sets the horse beside the tank.
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