62 Cavalry, the First Indian Armoured Regiment of the independent India, is celebrating its Golden Jubilee. This momentous event will take place in Ambala on 31 March, 2006. The celebration will begin with an impressive mounted parade which will be reviewed by the Chief of Army Staff Gen J J Singh.

62 CAVALRY was raised by Lt Col RS Butalia on 31 Mar 1957 at Ambala Cantonment. Drawn from the existing cavalry regiments of the time, 62 CAVALRY is constituted from the three warrior classes of SIKH, JAT and DOGRAs.It has distinction of being the First Indian Armoured Regiment to be raised entirely on Tanks.

Merely into its ninth year, 62 CAVALRY took on the elite of Pakistan's Armour head on in the 1965 operations. The Pakistani troops had Patton tanks which were publicized as invincible during the period and 62 Cavalry had Sherman as their war Horses. But Sherman minnows proved to be shark for the Pakistani tanks which were made out of modern metallurgy. And a fight which was initially perceived as an unequal struggle took the world by surprise. At the end of that war Pakistan lost an estimated 300 tanks and India's losses were 128 tanks.

The Regiment was honoured by the President during its silver Jubilee, when Late Shri Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy presented a Guidon to the Regiment on 31 March 1981.

During the parade the COAS will bestow the Regiment with a Standard in recognition of its achievements. The celebrations will be graced by the Honourable Chief Minister of Punjab, Capt Amarinder Singh, in recognition of the services rendered by 62 CAVALRY personnel who hail from Punjab apart from Lt Gen GD Singh, Deputy Chief of Army Staff (P&S), the Colonel of the Regiment of 62 CAVALRY.