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The '''Upper Burma Volunteer Rifles''' were an [[auxiliary regiment]] based in [[Burma]].Subsequently, probably by 1918, the name changed to the '''Upper Burma Battalion'''.<ref>"Growing up in the jungles of Burma, my grandpa learned to shoot with an organization his mother apparently equated with the Boy Scouts. According to the inscription on a small silver cup he won in a 1918 shooting contest, however, the group was the 34th Upper Burma Battalion". [http://noncomposmentismama.wordpress.com/ready-aim-fire /Ready, Aim... FIRE] Non Compos Mentis Mama retrieved 2 April 2011</ref>
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==External links==*[[National Army Museum]] [http://www.nam.ac.uk/inventory/objects/results.php?shortDescription=&event=&campaign=&associatedName=&unit=&placeNotes=Yenangyaung&productionNotes=&keyword= catalogue entry] for a photograph of 'D' Coy Upper Burma Battalion, Indian Defence Force, Yenangyaung Oil Field, 1921===Historical books online===
*[http://digital.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=sea;cc=sea;idno=sea362;q1=impressions%20of%20burma;node=sea362%3A1.4;frm=frameset;view=image;seq=271;page=root;size=s "Upper Burma Volunteer Rifles"] ''Twentieth century impressions of Burma : its history, people, commerce, industries, and resources'', page 267 by Arnold Wright 1910 Southeast Asia Visions
