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Calcutta Port Defence Volunteers
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.
Regimental Report
Seventeenth Annual Report of the Calcutta Port Defence Volunteer Corps, season 1915-1916 is available at the British Library
References
- ↑ Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 9, page 282
