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25th Motor Machine Gun Battery (Calcutta Volunteers)

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Charles Nida, in his autobiography ''Chota Sahib... You've Had a Busy Day'' provides an account of the establishment and training the Battery received, but no details of its subsequent deployments.<ref> [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=3MefAgAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA156 ''Chota Sahib... You've Had a Busy Day''], pages 156 onwards. Google Books. Also available are [https://web.archive.org/web/20230219004543/https://whitbywriters.com/chota-sahib-youve-had-a-busy-day/ Transcribed extracts] from the book, in particular from [https://web.archive.org/web/20221129064621/https://whitbywriters.com/2021/12/14/chapter-20-the-motorcycle-machine-gun-battery/ Chapter 20]. whitbywriters.com. Also available at the British Library UIN: BLL01014676175. There is an implication that the author may subsequently have become involved with aircraft, and it appears he became an officer in the RAF, National Archives catalogue reference [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8210833 AIR 76 - Air Ministry: Department of the Master-General of Personnel: Officers' Service Records AIR 76/374/21 - Name Nida, Charles Henry George] 1918-1919</ref>
The '''25th Motor Machine Gun Battery (Calcutta Volunteers)''' was raised in Calcutta c 1916, due to the efforts of the commandant Captain Heilgers, head of a well-known Calcutta merchant house, with a compliment of sixty six officers and men.
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