This seems a tenuous claim at best.While the Guides Cavalry and Guides Infantry exist even to this day, these Regiments never used the numbers indicated.Nor were they ever associated with Lahore.And I don't recall the British ever recruiting soldiers for fighting regiments from the urban areas.Recruits always came from villages. Mandeep Singh Bajwa Chandigarh India ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar" <bosham@gmail.com> To: <india-british-raj@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 8:41 PM Subject: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] Lahore Nama > Snipped from > http://lahorenama.wordpress.com/2008/03/10/lahore-lahore-aye-maaut-maaut-aye/ > > March 10, 2008 > > 'Lahore Lahore Aye, Maaut Maaut Aye' > > Quote *** They belonged to different mohallahs of the old walled city > of Lahore. In one fateful day, on the Third of September, 1879, the city > lost 41 sons out of 69 killed. Their great grand children, now old men > in their eighties, remember the respect they once commanded. They had > a nameplate outside Mohallah Qassaban, inside Delhi Gate, that was > removed in the 1920s after Jallianwala. They were the cannon fodder > of the British Empire, unsung, forgotten, the ones who never came back. > > The story of the 41 soldiers belonging to the old walled city out of the > 69 Indians who never returned from Kabul in 1879 was told for years. > The (Kabul) Residency was set up in July 1879, and a small detachment > of cavalry and infantry belonging to the 21 Guides Cavalry and 48 Guides > Infantry, elite regiments belonging to Lahore, were sent as a security > measure. > > On the 3rd September 1879, without warning, Afghan soldiers attacked > the Residency and were joined by almost the entire civilian population > of Kabul. *** Unquote > > ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar > Nagpur, India > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message