| Photographs of the 6th Bombay Cavalry, during
the reign of Queen Victoria. |
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"Jacob's Horse" (1896)
The 6th Bombay Cavalry are the famous "Jacob's
Horse" , being so named after the founder and first commandant of the
regiment, the famous Brigadier John Jacob, the brilliant Irregular Cavalry
leader and military organizer of forty years ago, whom Sir Charles Napier
called "the Seidlitz of the Sind Army". It was raised in
1846, and has had a splendid fighting career, in token of which it bears
as appointments in record of its war services the names "Cutchee",
"Meanee", "Hyderabad", "Punjab". "Mooltan",
"Goojerat", "Afghanistan 1879-80". The uniform
of the regiment is dark green - the colour adopted for all the seven
regiments of Bombay Cavalry - with primrose facings, dark blue check
loongee, and primrose throat plume. "Jacob's Horse", which
numbers some 600 sowars, is at present stationed at the city founded by
their great chief, Jacobabad in Sind. |
REGINALD WILLIAM SARTORIUS (Major,
now Major General, C.M.G., Retired) 6th
Bengal Cavalry
Decorated for conspicuous bravery on January 17th 1874, during
the attack on Abogoo in the Ashanti War, when under a heavy fire, he saved the
life of Sergeant Major Braimah Doctor, a Houssa non-commissioned officer, who
had been severely wounded.
He performed another splendid act during the war,
by undertaking to ride fifty miles across the enemy’s country, accompanied by
twenty natives, with the object of establishing connexion between Captain
Glover, who was marching through unknown country, and Sir Garnet Wolseley, whose
where about had to be discovered. Starting
on March 9th he accomplished his mission on the 11th.
Son of the late Admiral Sir George Rose Sartorious,
G.C.B. Has served in the Indian Mutiny, Bhutan War, Kossi Campaign, Volta
Expedition 1874, under Sir John Glover, and Afghan War 1879. |
