Railway units in the First World War
This page is an attachment to First World War-Mesopotamia-Railways
The following Railways related Indian Army units appear in the First World War medal card indexes and the “ Abbreviations used in the World War One Medal Cards”.(Refer Online Records in First World War) They could be connected with the Railways in Mesopotamia , but other war zones are also a possibility.
Units mentioned in “Abbreviations”
- Bombay & Central Indian Railway Battalion Indian Defence Force B & C.I. RY BN. I.D.F
- Mesopotamian Railways MESO. R.; MESO. RYS.; MESPOT. RLYS.
- North West Railway Maxim Gun Company N.W. RLY. M.G. COY.
- Railway Construction Company RLY. C.C.
- Railway Defence Force RLY. D.F.
- Railway Regiment RLY. REGT.
- Railway Battalion Sappers & Miners RY. BN. S & M.
Additional units mentioned in the medal card indexes. This list does not exhaustive, there may well be others.
- Burma Railways Battalion Auxiliary Forces India
- Bushire Light Railway
- Indian Army Reserve Railways
- Indian Army Railways
- Indian State Railways
- India Railways
- Iraq Railways
- Military Railways Indian Army
- Military Railways
- 2nd Battalion North West Railways Volunteer Rifles
- Railways Advisory Section Operating Section
- Railways Baghdad
- 6th Railways Jat Light Infantry
- Railways Sappers and Miners
- 45th Railways Sikhs
- 1st Battalion The Protectorate Railways Regiment Auxiliary Forces India (Possibly connected with the Aden Protectorate?)
- 29th South Indian Railway Battalion (possibly East Africa)