Upper Burma Volunteer Rifle Corps
The Upper Burma Volunteer Rifles were an auxiliary regiment based in Burma. Subsequently, probably by 1918, the name changed to the Upper Burma Battalion.[1]
Chronology
- 1886 raised 6th December[2]
Details
Detached companies
In 1901:[2]
- Minbu
- Kyaukse
- Myingyan
- Magwe
- Shwebo
- Bhamo
- Yamethin
- Sagaing
- Pagan
- Pokoke
- Kalewa
- Meiktila
- Pyinmana
- Ye-u
- Katha
- Monywa
- Mogoung
- Kendat and Thayetmyo
- Ruby Mines
- Myitkyina
Notes
- ↑ "Growing up in the jungles of Burma, my grandpa learned to shoot with an organization his mother apparently equated with the Boy Scouts. According to the inscription on a small silver cup he won in a 1918 shooting contest, however, the group was the 34th Upper Burma Battalion". /Ready, Aim... FIRE Non Compos Mentis Mama retrieved 2 April 2011
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Indian Army List 1st Sept 1901
External links
- National Army Museum catalogue entry for a photograph of 'D' Coy Upper Burma Battalion, Indian Defence Force, Yenangyaung Oil Field, 1921
Historical books online
- "Upper Burma Volunteer Rifles" Twentieth century impressions of Burma : its history, people, commerce, industries, and resources, page 267 by Arnold Wright 1910 Southeast Asia Visions