Malabar Volunteer Rifles

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The Malabar Volunteer Rifles were a volunteer corps under the Madras command.

Chronology

1885 incorporated the Calicut and Tellicherry Volunteer Corps as companies (PMG No 4454, 13 Aug 1885)^[1]
1885 raised as the Malabar Volunteer Rifles on 14th August^[1]
1917 amalgamated on 1st April to become 20th Nilgiri Malabar Battalion^[2]

Details

In 1901:^[1]

Headquarters - Calicut
Uniform - khaki drill

Detachments:

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Indian Army List 1st Sept 1901

↑ Jackson, Major Donovan India's Army (1940)

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