Calcutta Port Defence Volunteers

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Circa 1909, the Calcutta Port Defence Volunteers, consisted of five companies, two being naval divisions, one of garrison artillery, one of submarine miners, and one of electrical engineers, with a strength in 1903-4 of 333.[1]

For the Artillery Company, see Calcutta Naval Artillery Volunteers, which was the 1883 designation.

For the Engineering Company, see No. 1 (Calcutta) Fortress Company, which was the 1933 designation.

References

  1. Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 9, page 282