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*'''Badge''' - Eight pointed star surmounted by a crown with a bugle encircled by a garter in the centre | *'''Badge''' - Eight pointed star surmounted by a crown with a bugle encircled by a garter in the centre | ||
*'''Motto''' - "One and all" | *'''Motto''' - "One and all" | ||
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Revision as of 14:46, 20 April 2007
The 1st Battalion was formed as the Madras Railway Volunteers on the 21st August 1885 and the 2nd Battalion as the Southern Mahratta Railway Rifle Corps on the 20th October 1886. Amalgamated with the Bellary Volunteer Rifle Corp, which was raised on the 24th July 1885, on the 28th January 1898. Reconstituted as the Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway Rifles on the 4th June 1910 and then the 32nd Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway Rifles on the 1st April 1917 before becoming the Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway Rifles again on the 1st October 1920.
- Uniform - Khaki
- Facings - White
- Badge - Eight pointed star surmounted by a crown with a bugle encircled by a garter in the centre
- Motto - "One and all"