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Volunteer regiments were formed during the [[First World War]]. [http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/great-war-on-land/75-other-war-theatres/1072-indian-volunteers-in-the-great-war-east-african-campaign.html Indian Volunteers in the Great War East African Campaign] gives details of The North-Western Railway Volunteers, who served in East Africa, although the Commonwealth War Graves Commission classifies them as an East African Protectorate unit in its records.
There is also reference to service in Mesopotamia, and perhaps Persia,<ref>[http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2000-01/0948180245 Railway Regiments] by Colin Wilton-Davies dated 17 January 2000</ref>but it is not known whether this was by an individual officer, perhaps doing survey type work, or whether other volunteers from the Battalion were also deployed there.
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