Bombay Battalion

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The Bombay Battalion were an auxiliary regiment under the Bombay command.

Chronology

  • possible earlier chronology to be researched
  • 1877 raised on 15th August as Bombay Volunteer Rifles[1]
  • 1917 1st April became 16th Bombay Battalion[2]
  • 1920 redesignated the Bombay Battalion on 1st October[2]

Details

  • Headquarters - Bombay
  • Uniform:
  • Officers - Khaki serge
  • NCOs and men - Khaki drill[1]

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Indian Army List 1st Sept 1901
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Jackson, Major Donovan India's Army (1940)
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