Northern Bengal Mounted Rifles: Difference between revisions

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Originally formed on the 6th August 1873 as the Northern Bengal Volunteer Rifle Corps. The unit absorbed the Darjeeling Volunteer Rifle Corps on 5th August 1881. Reorganised on 15th February 1889 and became The Northern Bengal Mounted Rifles.

Photograph of cadets from North Point (St Joseph’s College Darjeeling) c 1936 from One hell of a life: an Anglo-Indian Wallah's memoir from the last decades of the Raj, page 82 by Stan Blackford 2000
Photograph of the 1939 Victoria School cadet corp attached to the Northern Bengal Mounted Rifles (NBMR)(scroll down) From vsdh.org
NBMR 1941-47 (pdf) from Koi-hai.com

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-*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=DMhMlGkawTQC&pg=PA82 Photograph of  Cadets from North Point]  (St Joseph’s College Darjeeling) c 1936 from  ''One hell of a life: an Anglo-Indian Wallah's memoir from the last decades of  the Raj'', page 82 by Stan Blackford  2000
+*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=DMhMlGkawTQC&pg=PA82 Photograph of  cadets from North Point]  (St Joseph’s College Darjeeling) c 1936 from  ''One hell of a life: an Anglo-Indian Wallah's memoir from the last decades of  the Raj'', page 82 by Stan Blackford  2000
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+*[http://www.vsdh.org/vsdh/sallygow/sallygowp2.html Photograph of the 1939 Victoria School cadet corp] attached to the Northern Bengal Mounted Rifles (NBMR)(scroll down) From vsdh.org
+*[http://www.koi-hai.com/images/FinalNBMR.pdf  NBMR 1941-47] (pdf) from Koi-hai.com