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The '''Cossipore Field Brigade''' was an [[auxiliary regiment]].

==Chronology==
*'''1884''' raised 1st February<ref name=IAL>''Indian Army List'' 1st Sept 1901</ref>
*'''1888''' redesignated as '''Cossipore Artillery Volunteers''' on the 7th September<ref name=IAL />
*'''1917''' became '''I. (Cossipore) Mobile Brigade Artillery''', 1st April<ref name=Jack>Jackson, Major Donovan ''India's Army'' (1940)</ref>
*'''1920''' redesignated IV. (Cossipore) Field Brigade, 1st October<ref name=Jack />
*'''1925''' amalgamated with the [[I. (Calcutta Port Defence) Field Brigade]] on the 18th December to form the [[Bengal Artillery (AFI)]]

==Regimental History==
*''Cossipore Artillery Volunteers: A Brief History. Compiled from the records by Lieut.-Col. D. A. Tyrie''. Published in  Calcutta : Thacker, Spink & Co., 1912.  Available at the [[British Library]].

==First World War==
Some members of the Cossipore Artillery Volunteers, along with members of the Calcutta Port Defence Volunteers,  joined the '''[[Calcutta Volunteer Battery]]'''. Different detachments saw service in East Africa, Mesopotamia and Egypt.

==Details==
*'''Headquarters''' - [[Calcutta]]
*'''Uniform''' 
:*Full dress - Blue serge or cloth
:*Working dress - Khaki drill<ref name=IAL />

===Detached companies===
In 1901:<ref name=IAL />
<div style="column-count:3;-moz-column-count:3;-webkit-column-count:3">
*[[Cossipore]]
*Baliaghatta
*Barnagore
*Kamarhatty
*Tittaghur
*[[Barrackpore]]
*Samnagar
*S--pore?
*Garden Reach
*Kanknarah
*Teleiniepara
*Rishra
*Goosery
*Budge-Budge
*[[Howrah]]
*Champdany
*Hastings
*Gourepore
*[[Dum Dum|Dum-Dum]]
*Budderollah
*[[Fort Gloster]]
*[[Gondalpara]]
*Bally
*Juggerdal
*Khardah
*Isharpore
*Rajgunge
</div>

==Miscellaneous==
Dave White says "My wife's ancestor, Sergeant Thomas Lomas was their Rifle-Shooting champion for 1912-1913."<ref>[http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Cossipore_Artillery_Volunteers&oldid=870 FIBIwiki, 19 June 2007]</ref>

==Notes==
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[[Category:Auxiliary Force (India)]]
[[Category:Auxiliary Artillery Regiments]]