Kolar Gold Fields Battalion

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The Kolar Gold Fields Battalion were an auxiliary regiment.

Chronology

  • 1903 formed as the Kolar Gold Fields Rifle Volunteers (name tbc) on 23rd January from a detachment of the Bangalore Rifle Volunteers[1]
  • 1917 became 43rd Kolar Gold Fields Battalion on 1st April[1]
  • 1920 redesignated on 1st October as the Kolar Gold Fields Battalion[1]

Details

By 1940:[1]

  • Uniform - Khaki
  • Badge - Crossed pickaxe and hammer in circle superscribed "The Kolar Gold Fields Bn", all surmounted by crown

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Jackson, Major Donovan India's Army (1940)

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