Northern Bengal Mounted Rifles

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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.

Uniform - Scarlet
Facings White
Badge - Bengal Tiger
Motto - "Fideliter"

External links

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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Auxiliary Regiments