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- The Poona Horse is an armoured regiment in the Armoured Corps of the Indian Army. The regiment, known before independence as The Poona Horse (17th Queen Victoria's Own Cavalry), was raised as a regular cavalry regiment in the Bombay Presidency army of the East India Company. It was formed from the , raised in 1820, and the , raised about 1817–18. The latter unit was absorbed into the regular forces about 1860 and the two regiments later became the 33rd Queen Victoria's Own Light Cavalry and the 34th Prince Albert Victor's Own Poona Horse. These were amalgamated in 1921 into the present regiment, the battle honours of which tell of service in three Afghan wars, in Persia, Abyssinia and China, as well as in the Great War. The regiment has fought with distinction in the 1965 and 1971 Indo-Pakistani wars, with an officer winning India's highest gallantry award, the Param Vir Chakra, in each war. (en)
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- रण वीर जय सदा (Ran Vir Jai Sada)
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- 37765 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
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- Boxer Rebellion (en)
- China (en)
- Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 (en)
- Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 (en)
- World War I (en)
- World War II (en)
- Abyssinia 1867-68 (en)
- Annexation of Hyderabad (en)
- Battle of Armentiers-1914 (en)
- Battle of Cambrai-1917 (en)
- Battle of Ctesiphon (en)
- Battle of Flers–Courcelette-1916 (en)
- Battle of Ghazni -1842 (en)
- Battle of Girishk (en)
- Battle of Givenchy (en)
- Battle of Hyderabad-1843 (en)
- Battle of Kabul-1842 (en)
- Battle of Kandahar-1842 (en)
- Battle of Kandahar-1880 (en)
- Battle of Kooshab-1856 (en)
- Battle of Koregaum (en)
- Battle of La Basse-1914 (en)
- Battle of Maiwand (en)
- Battle of Meanee-1843 (en)
- Battle of Peking-1900 (en)
- Battle of Shaiba (en)
- Battle of Sindwaha-1858 (en)
- Battle of the Somme-1916 (en)
- Capture of Damascus (en)
- First Afghan War (en)
- First Battle of El Alamein (en)
- First Battle of Ypres-1914 (en)
- Indian Mutiny (en)
- Persian Conflict (en)
- Second Afghan War 1879-80 (en)
- Third Afghan War (en)
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- Current Regimental Cap Badge (en)
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- Indian Army Armoured Corps (en)
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- Bicentenary celebrations of The Poona Horse, February 2017 (en)
- The stealth frigate INS Sahyadri affiliates with Poona Horse, December 2016 (en)
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- Bicentenary celebrations of The Poona Horse1.jpg (en)
- Bicentenary celebrations of The Poona Horse2.jpg (en)
- Bicentenary celebrations of The Poona Horse3.jpg (en)
- Bicentenary celebrations of The Poona Horse4.jpg (en)
- INS Sahyadri, the latest stealth frigates of IN affiliates with Poona Horse-2.jpg (en)
- INS Sahyadri, the latest stealth frigates of IN affiliates with Poona Horse.jpg (en)
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- Poona Horse, Fakhr-e- Hind (en)
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- The Poona Horse is an armoured regiment in the Armoured Corps of the Indian Army. The regiment, known before independence as The Poona Horse (17th Queen Victoria's Own Cavalry), was raised as a regular cavalry regiment in the Bombay Presidency army of the East India Company. It was formed from the , raised in 1820, and the , raised about 1817–18. The latter unit was absorbed into the regular forces about 1860 and the two regiments later became the 33rd Queen Victoria's Own Light Cavalry and the 34th Prince Albert Victor's Own Poona Horse. (en)
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- 17th Horse (Poona Horse) (en)
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- Poona Horse, Fakhr-e- Hind (en)
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