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*'''Badge''' - Royal arms within a garter with a crown over it and motto underneath
*'''Motto''' - "Ready aye Ready"
==British Library holdings==
*''A Short History of the Madras Volunteer Guards: From 1857, the Date of Formation, to 1907, the Jubilee Year of the Corps'' by James Robert Coombes 1907. There is restricted online availablity, refer below.
==External links==
* Victorian Wars Forum [http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=6994 thread], including images, about the Madras Volunteers, which is confirmed to be the Madras Volunteer Guards. There was a Mounted Infantry Company. It is also suggested that the uniform shown in this VWF [http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=5655 thread] might well be from the Madras Volunteer Guards
===Historical books online===
'''Restricted''' availability only. Appear to be available in North America
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=fVx7uAAACAAJ ''A Short History of the Madras Volunteer Guards, from 1857, the Date of Formation, to 1883''] by Robert Coombes 1883 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=BI3sGwAACAAJ ''A Short History of the Madras Volunteer Guards: From 1857, the Date of Formation, to 1907, the Jubilee Year of the Corps''] by James Robert Coombes 1907 Google Books
[[Category:Auxiliary Regiments]]
