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*===Uniform==='''1877'''Uniform:- A detailed description of the uniform and horse furniture can be found in the ''First annual report'' <ref name="report" /> :*'''By 1901''' - Officers - Khaki serge:*, NCOs and men - Khaki drill<ref name="IAL" /> ===Detached companies===*[[Poona]] - at formation in January 1878 this was G Company<ref name="report" /> ===Cadet companies===In 1877 cadets from the following schools were formed into three companies.<ref name="report" />*No 1 Company: Bombay Education Society School (Byculla)*No 2 Company: St Mary's Institution (Byculla)*No 3 Company: Scottish Schools (Byculla), Scottish Schools (Fort), Cathedral Choir School (Fort) ==History=====1877-78===The Bombay Volunteer Rifles produced an annual report<ref name="report">[http://www.archive.org/details/firstannualrepor00indi ''First annual report of the Bombay Volunteer Rifles for season 1877-78''] (1878). Online at Archive.org.</ref> at the end of their first year that contains a lot of useful information for anyone interested in the corps in this period. This publication is available to read online (see note). Included are a nominal roll of all 7 companies, listing hundreds of names (Appendix G), a nominal roll of officers (p.5), a nominal roll of bandsmen (p.11), details of winners of shooting competitions, members of the Rifle Association (the shooting range was at Coorla) and a list of honorary members (p.1). At formation, the Corps were limited to service within the limits of the Island of Bombay.<ref name="report" /> The Government offered the "Old Sailors' Home" as a Headquarters and issued the Corps with Henry-Martini rifles.<ref name="report" /> The report notes 770 men joined the regiment in the first year, with 160 struck off, leaving 610 volunteers (not including cadets).<ref name="report" /> 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" />
add some useful details from the First annual report
==Chronology==
*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" />
*'''1920''' redesignated the Bombay Battalion on 1st October<ref name="Jack">Jackson, Major Donovan ''India's Army'' (1940)</ref>
==Details==
*'''Headquarters''' - [[Bombay (City)|Bombay]]
==Notes==
