Burma Rifles

Chronology

• 1916 Two companies of Burma Pioneers raised in Mandalay
• 1917 Burma Pioneers became the 70th Burma Rifles
• 1917 85th Burma Rifles raised from the Burma Military Police
• 1922 70th & 85th merged to form the 20th Burma Rifles
• 1937 renamed Burma Rifles on separation of Burma from India

External Links

• Burma Rifles Wikipedia
  
• The Burma Rifles www.rothwell.force9.co.uk
  
• 2nd Btn The Burma Rifles www.rothwell.force9.co.uk
  
• 12th Btn The Burma Rifles www.rothwell.force9.co.uk
  
• 14th Btn The Burma Rifles www.rothwell.force9.co.uk
  
• "Kurdistan 1919: Military Operations in Mesopotamian Kurdistan: South Kurdistan, May–June 1919" by Harry Fecitt. From Harry's Sideshows kaiserscross.com
• WW2Talk Forum thread "Interview: Major Neville Graham Hogan officer served with 2nd Bn Burma Rifles" includes link to a IWM 1991 interview
• Denis Wilmot Rae, born circa 1908 mentions that other ex Burma Rifle men who had escaped to India were connected with the Johnnies and Z-Force (WW2)

Historical books online

• Kachin military terms by C M Enriquez, Major, 85th Burma Rifles 1919 Archive.org
  • The Dedication indicates that D Company, 85th Burma Rifles, served in Mesopotamia 1917-1919
• A Burmese Enchantment by Captain C M Enriquez, 21st Punjabis (“Theophilus”) 1916 Archive.org. Biography of the author

A Burmese Loneliness: a tale of travel in Burma, the Southern Shan States and Keng Tung by Captain C M Enriquez, 21st Punjabis (Burma Military Police: 85th Burma Rifles) 1918 Archive.org.

A Burmese Wonderland : a Tale of Travel in Lower and Upper Burma by Major C M Enriquez, 3-70th Kachin Rifles, Divisional Recruiting Officer, Burma 1922 with a Map of Burma Archive.org

A Burmese Arcady, an account of a long and intimate sojourn amongst the mountain dwellers of the Burmese hinterland and of their engaging characteristics and customs by Major C M Enriquez, [3/70th] Kachin Rifles. 1923. Southeast Asia Visions, Cornell University.