Queen's Own Guides Cavalry (now partitioned between Pakistan and India).
Michael who was killed 1937 serving in the Guides Cavalry.
The new class composition of Guides Cavalry was Punjabi Muslims, Sikhs and Dogras.
On the Partition of India in 1947, Guides Cavalry was allotted to Pakistan.
The Guides Cavalry returned to Iraq in September 1942.
The Guides Cavalry was deployed at Badiana, west of Chawinda to protect the division's left flank.
They also made a flanking move towards Bhagowal and Khakanwali in the west, where they were effectively checked by the Guides Cavalry.
It was here that the decisive tank battles of the war were fought in which Guides Cavalry covered itself in glory.
The Guides Cavalry was engaged in fierce fighting near Badiana, where it beat back repeated Indian attacks and inflicted heavy losses on the enemy armour.
Prior to this, the Guides Cavalry did not include Hazaras in their ranks.
