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“...all the British tea planters were members of the North Bengal Mounted Rifles....We were issued rifles and received an allowance to cover the expenses of maintaining a horse”.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=sbGMrVYl4tYC&pg=PA184 ''Shot down''], page 184 by John M Curnow 2006 Google Books</ref> | |||
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Revision as of 14:00, 26 April 2010
Originally formed on the 6th August 1873 as the Northern Bengal Volunteer Rifle Corps. The unit absorbed the Darjeeling Volunteer Rifle Corps on 5th August 1881. Reorganised on 15th February 1889 and became The Northern Bengal Mounted Rifles.
- Uniform - Scarlet
- Facings White
- Badge - Bengal Tiger
- Motto - "Fideliter"
“...all the British tea planters were members of the North Bengal Mounted Rifles....We were issued rifles and received an allowance to cover the expenses of maintaining a horse”.[1]
References
External links
- Photograph of cadets from North Point (St Joseph’s College Darjeeling) c 1936 from One hell of a life: an Anglo-Indian Wallah's memoir from the last decades of the Raj, page 82 by Stan Blackford 2000
- Photograph of the 1939 Victoria School cadet corp attached to the Northern Bengal Mounted Rifles (NBMR)(scroll down) From vsdh.org
- NBMR 1941-47 (pdf) from Koi-hai.com