Kolar Gold Fields Battalion

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The Kolar Gold Fields Battalion were an auxiliary regiment.

Chronology

  • 1903 formed as the Kolar Gold Fields Volunteer Rifles (possibly, tbc) on 23rd January from a detachment of the Bangalore Rifle Volunteers[1]
  • 1917 became 43rd Kolar Gold Fields Battalion on 1st April[1]
  • 1920 redesignated on 1st October as the Kolar Gold Fields Battalionref name=Jack />

Details

By 1940:[1]

  • Uniform - Khaki
  • Badge - Crossed pickaxe and hammer in circle superscribed "The Kolar Gold Fields Bn", all surmounted by crown

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Jackson, Major Donovan India's Army (1940)

External links

“The Kolar Gold-Fields” Indian pictures and problems p182, Sir Ian Zachary Malcolm (1907) Archive.org, briefly mentions the corps of Volunteers