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The '''Upper Burma Volunteer Rifles''' were an [[auxiliary regiment]] based in [[Burma]]. Subsequently, probably by 1918The battalion was raised on 9th December 1886 as the Upper Burma Volunteer Rifles. As part of the Indian Defence Force Act of 1917, all the units of the Indian Volunteers became units of the Indian Defence Force and the name changed to battalion was retitled the '''34th Upper Burma Battalion'''on 1st April 1917.<ref>"Growing up With the formation of the Indian Auxiliary Force in 1920 the jungles of battalion was again retitled as the Upper Burma, my grandpa learned to shoot with an organization his mother apparently equated with the Boy ScoutsBattalion. According It retained this title when transferred to the inscription on a small silver cup he won Burma Auxiliary Force in a 1918 shooting contest, howeverApril 1937, following the transfer of units to the group was Burma Army with the 34th separation of administration from India<ref>The Upper Burma Battalion". [http://noncomposmentismama.wordpress.com/ready-aim-fire /Ready, Aim... FIRE] Non Compos Mentis Mama retrieved 2 April 2011Burma Auxiliary Force from Steve Rothwell’s The Burma Campaign</ref>
==Chronology==
In 1901:<ref name=IAL />
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*Minbu[[Bhamo]]*[[Kalewa]]*[[Katha]]*Kendat
*Kyaukse
*[[Magwe]]
*[[Meiktila]]
*[[Minbu]]
*Mogoung
*Monywa
*Myingyan
*Magwe*Shwebo*Bhamo*Yamethin*SagaingMyitkyina*[[Pagan]]
*Pokoke
*Pyinmana
*Ruby Mines
*Sagaing
*[[Shwebo]]
*[[Thayetmyo]]
*[[Yamethin]]
*Ye-u
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In the early 1900s, Shwebo was the headquarters of a company of the Upper Burma Volunteer Rifles, drawn from the Shwebo, Katha, Bhamo, and Myitkyina Districts. <ref>[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V22_327.gif Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 22, page 321]</ref>
==Notes==
==External links==
*[http://www.rothwell.force9.co.uk/burmaweb/UpBurmaBnBAF.htm The Upper Burma Battalion, Burma Auxiliary Force] Steve Rothwell’s The Burma Campaign
*[[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
===Historical books online===
