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"Despite the Battalions' names, Europeans were in commissioned and non-commissioned officer roles, the latter including lance corporal, corporal, sergeant, sergeant major."<ref>India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2012-06/1338935586 post] dated 6 June 2012</ref>
The Battalions were still disbanded in existence in 1859February 1860 according to the government order[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=amlDAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA195 "Reduction of the 1st and 2nd Native Veteran Battalions"] dated 10 February 1860, as evidenced by page 195 Allen’s Indian Mail January-June 1860 . This order advises "European officers serving with battalions will be posted to the European veterans" ==External links==*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=ygMLAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA124 page Page 124 of the Madras section] of the ''East India Register and Army List for 1859'' , titled "Invalid Establishment", which lists (some/all?) of the officers in the 1st and 2nd N.V.B. There were no similar entries in the ''Indian Army and Civil Service List for 1864'' (which is the next known Indian Army List available online), suggesting the Battalions had been disbanded by then.
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