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The '''Bombay Battalion''' were was an [[auxiliary regiment]] under the Bombay command.
==Chronology==
*possible Possible earlier chronology to be researched
*'''1877''' raised on 15th August as '''Bombay Volunteer Rifles'''<ref name="IAL">''Indian Army List'' 1st Sept 1901</ref> (by General Order of the Honorary Governor in Council No. 533 of 1877)<ref name="report" />
*'''1917''' 1st April became '''16th Bombay Battalion'''<ref name="Jack" />
Appendix B of the ''First annual report'' contains the rules of Corps. The first two prescribe that the Rifle Corps is to be composed of Europeans and Eurasians who must be over 16 and taller than 5 foot 2 inches.<ref name="report" />
===Highland Company===
The Bombay Volunteers raised a Highland company in 1914 and which was disbanded in 1922. Hunting Stewart tartan.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20061118154633/http://www.btinternet.com/~james.mckay/commonwr.htm Summary of the Commonwealth Scottish Regiments] by Kim Stacy. Scroll down. Information by the Scottish Military Historical Society, now an archived webpage.</ref>==Regimental histories==*''The Bombay Volunteer Rifles: a History'' by Samuel T. Sheppard 1919.: Available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01001795347*''Bombay Volunteer Rifle Corps. Eighth annual report, season, 1884-85''. Available at the BL UIN: BLL01018840723*''āJā ... Company, Bombay Volunteer Rifles. First Annual Report, 1915-1916''. Available at the BL UIN: BLL01001795348==NotesReferences==
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[[Category:Auxiliary Force (India)]]
