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Originally raised as the [[Madras Volunteer Guards]] on the 2nd July 1857 and became the [[1st Madras Guards]]  on the 1st April 1917. Became the Madras Guards on the 1st October 1920.
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Originally raised as the [[Madras Volunteer Guards]] on the 2nd July 1857, and sometimes referred to as the Madras Volunteers.  Became the [[1st Madras Guards]]  on the 1st April 1917 and then  the Madras Guards on the 1st October 1920.
  
 
*'''Uniform''' - Blue
 
*'''Uniform''' - Blue
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*'''Motto''' - "Ready aye Ready"
 
*'''Motto''' - "Ready aye Ready"
  
==British Library holdings==
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==Regimental histories==
*''A Short History of the Madras Volunteer Guards: From 1857, the Date of Formation, to 1907, the Jubilee Year of the Corps''  by James Robert Coombes 1907. There is restricted online availablity, refer below.
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*''A Short History of the Madras Volunteer Guards, from 1857, the Date of Formation, to 1883'' by Robert Coombes 1883. This book should become freely available online c 2024 on [https://books.google.com.au/books/about/A_Short_History_of_the_Madras_Volunteer.html?id=5gYZAAAAYAAJ Google Books].
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*''A Short History of the Madras Volunteer Guards: From 1857, the Date of Formation, to 1907, the Jubilee Year of the Corps''  by James Robert Coombes 1907. Available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01000775906 . Also available HathiTrust Digital Library for those in North America.
  
 
==External links==
 
==External links==
* Victorian Wars Forum  [http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=6994  thread], including images, about the Madras Volunteers, which is confirmed to be the Madras Volunteer Guards. There was a Mounted Infantry Company.  It is also suggested that the uniform shown in this VWF [http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=5655 thread] might well be from the Madras Volunteer Guards
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131127094526/http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/article2057209.ece  Madras Miscellany - "Madras and the 1857 Revolt"] by S. Muthiah ''The Hindu'' 29 May 2011, now archived. Details the raising of the Madras Volunteer Guards.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131127094526/http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/article2057209.ece  Madras Miscellany - Madras and the 1857 Revolt] by S. Muthiah The Hindu 29 May 2011. Details the raising of the Madras Volunteer Guards
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*[https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/p15195coll29/item/18 Photograph of the Headquarters of the Madras Volunteer Guards] University of Houston Library.
*[http://digital.lib.uh.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/p15195coll29&CISOPTR=18 Photograph of the Headquarters of the Madras Volunteer Guards] University of Houston Library
 
  
 
===Historical books online===
 
'''Restricted''' availability only. Appear to be available in North America
 
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=fVx7uAAACAAJ ''A Short History of the Madras Volunteer Guards, from 1857, the Date of Formation, to 1883''] by Robert Coombes 1883 Google Books
 
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=BI3sGwAACAAJ ''A Short History of the Madras Volunteer Guards: From 1857, the Date of Formation, to 1907, the Jubilee Year of the Corps'']  by James Robert Coombes 1907 Google Books
 
 
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[[Category:Auxiliary Regiments]]
 
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Latest revision as of 02:25, 22 August 2020

Originally raised as the Madras Volunteer Guards on the 2nd July 1857, and sometimes referred to as the Madras Volunteers. Became the 1st Madras Guards on the 1st April 1917 and then the Madras Guards on the 1st October 1920.

  • Uniform - Blue
  • Facings - Scarlet
  • Badge - Royal arms within a garter with a crown over it and motto underneath
  • Motto - "Ready aye Ready"

Regimental histories

  • A Short History of the Madras Volunteer Guards, from 1857, the Date of Formation, to 1883 by Robert Coombes 1883. This book should become freely available online c 2024 on Google Books.
  • A Short History of the Madras Volunteer Guards: From 1857, the Date of Formation, to 1907, the Jubilee Year of the Corps by James Robert Coombes 1907. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01000775906 . Also available HathiTrust Digital Library for those in North America.

External links