Bangalore Battalion

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The Bangalore Battalion were an auxiliary regiment.

Chronology

  • 1868 raised as the Bangalore Rifle Volunteers on 31st November[1][2][3]
  • 1884 some detached companies separated to form the Coorg and Mysore Rifle Corps on 21st November[4]
  • 1903 one detachment separated to become the Kolar Gold Fields Rifle Volunteers on 23rd January[4]
  • 1917 amalgamated with the Coorg and Mysore Rifles to become 6th Bangalore, Coorg and Mysore Battalion on 1st April[4]
  • 1920 redesignated on 1st October as the Bangalore Battalion [4]

Details

In 1901:[1]

  • Headquarters - Bangalore
  • Uniform - Khaki drill
  • Detachments:

By 1940:[4]

  • Uniform - Rifle green
  • Facings - scarlet
  • Motto - "Defence not Defiance"

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Indian Army List 1st Sept 1901
  2. ↑ Govt. of India Mily. Dept. letter No. 998, dated 22nd March 1869 and GGO 553, dated 19th May 1870
  3. ↑ Jackson gives the formation date as 21st December 1868.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Jackson, Major Donovan India's Army (1940)
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