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The '''Upper Burma Volunteer Rifles''' were an [[auxiliary regiment]] based in [[Burma]].
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The '''Upper Burma Volunteer Rifles''' were an [[auxiliary regiment]] based in [[Burma]]. Subsequently, probably by 1918, the name changed to the '''Upper Burma Battalion'''.<ref>"Growing up in the jungles of Burma, my grandpa learned to shoot with an organization his mother apparently equated with the Boy Scouts. According to the inscription on a small silver cup he won in a 1918 shooting contest, however, the group was the 34th Upper Burma Battalion". [http://noncomposmentismama.wordpress.com/ready-aim-fire /Ready, Aim... FIRE] Non Compos Mentis Mama retrieved 2 April 2011</ref>
  
 
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*[[National Army Museum]]    [http://www.nam.ac.uk/inventory/objects/results.php?shortDescription=&event=&campaign=&associatedName=&unit=&placeNotes=Yenangyaung&productionNotes=&keyword=  catalogue entry]  for a photograph of 'D' Coy Upper Burma Battalion, Indian Defence Force, Yenangyaung Oil Field, 1921
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===Historical books online===
 
*[http://digital.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=sea;cc=sea;idno=sea362;q1=impressions%20of%20burma;node=sea362%3A1.4;frm=frameset;view=image;seq=271;page=root;size=s "Upper Burma Volunteer Rifles"] ''Twentieth century impressions of Burma : its history, people, commerce, industries, and resources'', page 267 by Arnold Wright 1910 Southeast Asia Visions
 
*[http://digital.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=sea;cc=sea;idno=sea362;q1=impressions%20of%20burma;node=sea362%3A1.4;frm=frameset;view=image;seq=271;page=root;size=s "Upper Burma Volunteer Rifles"] ''Twentieth century impressions of Burma : its history, people, commerce, industries, and resources'', page 267 by Arnold Wright 1910 Southeast Asia Visions
  

Revision as of 12:56, 2 April 2011

The Upper Burma Volunteer Rifles were an auxiliary regiment based in Burma. Subsequently, probably by 1918, the name changed to the Upper Burma Battalion.[1]

Chronology

  • 1886 raised 6th December[2]

Details

Detached companies

In 1901:[2]

  • Minbu
  • Kyaukse
  • Myingyan
  • Magwe
  • Shwebo
  • Bhamo
  • Yamethin
  • Sagaing
  • Pagan
  • Pokoke
  • Kalewa
  • Meiktila
  • Pyinmana
  • Ye-u
  • Katha
  • Monywa
  • Mogoung
  • Kendat and Thayetmyo
  • Ruby Mines
  • Myitkyina

Notes

  1. "Growing up in the jungles of Burma, my grandpa learned to shoot with an organization his mother apparently equated with the Boy Scouts. According to the inscription on a small silver cup he won in a 1918 shooting contest, however, the group was the 34th Upper Burma Battalion". /Ready, Aim... FIRE Non Compos Mentis Mama retrieved 2 April 2011
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Indian Army List 1st Sept 1901

External links

Historical books online

  • "Upper Burma Volunteer Rifles" Twentieth century impressions of Burma : its history, people, commerce, industries, and resources, page 267 by Arnold Wright 1910 Southeast Asia Visions