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Revision as of 15:16, 12 March 2010
Auxiliary or volunteer regiments were usually local civilian volunteer corps tasked with local security.
History
- Post-1858 - volunteer corps formed over subsequent decades
- 1917 - Formation of Indian Defence Force (IDF), disbanded at the end of the war
- 1920 - Formation of Auxiliary Force (India) (AFI)
Indian volunteer force
After the Indian Mutiny local volunteer infantry forces began to be set up. Cavalry corps started in the 1860s and the first volunteer artillery brigade was constituted in 1879. Railway companies also formed infantry corps from their staff beginning in 1869.
The volunteer corps were open to Europeans and 'Eurasians' and, with the exception of an adjutant, consisted entirely of volunteers.
Indian Defence Force
During the First World War compulsory service was deemed necessary and the Indian Defence Force Act was passed in 1917. The volunteer corps became units of the IDF and were redesignated. European British men between the ages of 18 and 41 were subject to compulsory service. Some corps allowed Indians to join as volunteers.
The IDF corps performed local security duties during the war and were not sent to the front. Some officers were transferred to regular Indian Army units. After the War the IDF as an official organization was disbanded.
Auxiliary Force India
A further reorganization of the units occured in 1920 when the Auxiliary Force (India) replaced the IDF. Volunteers enrolled for an indefinite period but could be discharged after four years (or upon reaching the age of 45). The AFI was disbanded upon Partition.
Cavalry
- 1st United Provinces Horse
- 7th (Southern Regiment) United Provinces Horse
- Allahabad Light Horse
- Allahabad Troop Light Horse
- Assam Valley Light Horse
- Assam Valley Mounted Rifles
- Bihar Light Horse
- Bihar Mounted Rifles
- Bombay Light Horse
- Bombay Light Motor Patrols
- Bombay Light Patrol
- Cachar and Sylhet Mounted Rifles
- Calcutta Light Horse
- Calcutta Mounted Volunteer Rifles
- Calcutta Mounted Rifles
- Calcutta Volunteer Lancers
- Cawnpore Light Horse
- Central Bengal Light Horse
- Chota Nagpur Light Horse
- Chota Nagpur Mounted Rifles
- Chota Nagpur Regiment
- Darrang Mounted Infantry
- Darrang Mounted Rifles
- Dehra Dun Mounted Rifles
- Ghazipur Light Horse
- Gorakhpur Light Horse
- Lakimpur Mounted Rifles
- Northern Bengal Mounted Rifles
- Nowgong Mounted Rifles
- Oudh Light Horse
- Punjab Light Horse
- Sibsagar Mounted Infantry
- Sibsagar Mounted Rifles
- Southern Provinces Mounted Rifles
- Surma Valley Light Horse
- United Provinces Horse (Southern Regiment)
- United Provinces Light Horse
1917 redesignations
Corps redesignated as numbered battalions on the 1st April 1917 on formation of the IDF:
1920 redesignations
Battalions and regiments redesignated on the 1st October 1920 on formation of the AFI:
Infantry
- Agra Volunteer Rifle Corps
- Allahabad Rifles
- Allahabad Volunteer Rifle Corps
- Assam Bengal Railway Battalion
- 42nd Assam Bengal Railway Battalion
- Assam-Bengal Railway Volunteer Rifles
- Bangalore Battalion
- Bareilly Contingent
- Bellary Volunteer Rifle Corp
- Bengal and North-Western Railway Volunteer Corps
- Bengal Nagpur Railway Battalion
- Bengal Nagpur Railway Regiment
- 36th Bengal Nagpur Railway Regiment
- Bengal Nagpur Railway Volunteer Rifle Corps
- Berar Volunteer Rifle Corps
- Bhusawal Company
- Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway Volunteer Corps
- Bombay Volunteer Rifle Corps
- Burma Railways Volunteer Corps
- Calcutta Volunteer Rifle Corps
- Calcutta Scottish
- Cawnpore Rifles
- Cawnpore Volunteer Rifle Corps
- Coorg and Mysore Rifle Corps
- Darjeeling Volunteer Rifle Corps
- Dehra Dun Contingent
- Delhi Contingent
- East Coast Rifle Volunteer Corps
- Eastern Bengal Company
- Eastern Bengal State Railway Volunteer Rifle Corps
- 7th East Indian Railway Battalion
- 7th East Indian Railway Corps
- 12th Eastern Bengal Railway Battalion
- Eastern Bengal Railway Battalion
- East Indian Railway Regiment
- Eastern Bengal Railway Volunteer Rifle Corps
- East Indian Railway Volunteer Rifle Corp
- Gauhati Rifles
- Ghadeshi Volunteer Rifle Corps
- Ghazipur Volunteer Rifle Battalion
- Ghazipur Volunteer Rifle Corps
- Godavari Rifle Volunteer Corps
- Great Indian Peninsula Railway Volunteer Corps
- Hyderabad Rifles
- Kolar Gold Fields Battalion
- Lakhimpur Volunteer Rifle Corps
- Lucknow Rifles
- Lucknow Volunteer Rifle Corps
- Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway Rifles
- Madras Guards
- Madras Railway Volunteers
- Midland Railway Volunteer Corps
- Nagpur Regiment
- Nagpur Rifles
- 2nd Nagpur Rifles
- Nilgiri Malabar Battalion
- Northern Bengal Volunteer Rifle Corps
- Northern Bengal State Railway Volunteer Rifle Corps
- North-Western Railway Battalion
- 24th North-Western Railway Battalion
- North-Western Railway Regiment
- North-Western Railway Volunteer Rifles
- Orissa Volunteer Rifles
- Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway Battalion
- Oudh Volunteer Rifle Corps
- Poona Rifles
- Punjab Light Horse (Volunteers)
- Punjab Rifles
- 3rd Punjab Rifles
- 1st Punjab Volunteer Rifle Corps
- 2nd Punjab Volunteer Rifle Corps
- 3rd Punjab (North-Western Railway) Volunteer Rifle Corps
- Rajputana-Malwa Volunteer Rifle Corps
- Shillong Volunteer Rifles
- Simla Rifles
- 4th Simla Rifles
- Simla Volunteer Rifle Corps
- Sind, Punjab and Indus Valley Railways Volunteer Rifle Corps
- Sind Rifles
- South Andaman Volunteer Rifle Corps
- Southern Mahratta Railway Rifle Corps
- South Indian Railway Battalion
- 29th South Indian Railway Battalion
- South Indian Railway Volunteer Rifle Corps
- St. Michael's School Cadet Corps
- Sylhet Volunteer Rifle Corps
- Tirhoot State Railway Volunteer Rifle Corps
- Upper Burma Volunteer Rifle Corps
- Vizagapatam Rifle Volunteer Corps
- Yarcaud Company
1917 redesignations
Corps redesignated as numbered battalions on the 1st April 1917 on formation of the IDF:
1920 redesignations
Battalions and regiments redesignated on the 1st October 1920 on formation of the AFI:
1926
Artillery
Volunteer units of the Royal Artillery in India.
1917 redesignations
Batteries and brigades redesignated on the 1st April 1917 on formation of the IDF:
1920 redesignations
Batteries and brigades redesignated on the 1st October 1920 on formation of the AFI:
1925
1933 redesignations
Batteries and brigades redesignated in 1933:
Engineers
- No. 1 (Calcutta) Field Company
- No. 3 (Bombay) Field Company
- No. 4 (Karachi) Field Company
- No. 1 (Calcutta) Fortress Company
- No. 3 (Bombay) Fortress Company
- No. 4 (Karachi) Fortress Company
- No. 1 Electrical Engineer Company
- No. 3 Electrical Engineer Company
- No. 4 (Karachi) Electrical and Mechanical Company
- No. 4 (Searchlight) Company
- Calcutta Port Defence Volunteers