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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
 
*[[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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*[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
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*[http://seasiavisions.library.cornell.edu/bookreader/sea:362/#page/271/mode/1up "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
  
  
 
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Revision as of 22:28, 13 December 2014

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
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