Between The Wars
In 1921 the regiment left Lucknow for Dera Ismail Khan on the North West Frontier. From 1924 to 1929 it was stationed at Bolarum, followed by Sialkot then Jullunder until October 1933 when it moved to Loralai in Baluchistan. It stayed here until October 1935 when it moved back to Bolarum where it was at the start of World War 2.
In 1922 another reorganization saw the regiment renamed as the 7th Light Cavalry and the class composition was altered.
The same year the ‘Indianization’ of the Indian Army officer corps began in selected regiments. Initially in the cavalry the two unit's selected where the 7th Light Cavalry and the 16th Light Cavalry. The policy was such where by British officers would no longer be appointed to the regiment but Indians, initially trained at Royal Military College, Sandhurst and from 1932 onwards at the Indian Military Academy, Dehradun would be appointed instead. The first such officer was appointed in December 1923. By September 1939 of the 22 officers on the books of the regiment, 16 were Indian.
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