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*'''Uniform''' - Khaki drill<ref name=IAL />
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The '''Burma Railways Volunteer Corps''' were an [[auxiliary regiment]] in [[Burma]].
"In the case of an outbreak of hostilities, the special work of the Burma Railway Volunteers would be to ensure that the railway communications were undisturbed, and to hold the stations....one of the regulations of the Burma Railway Company is that all their European and Eurasian employees shall undergo the necessary military training to make themselves efficient members of it." <ref name=Southeast>Wright, Arnold (Ed) [http://digitalseasiavisions.library.cornell.edu/cgibookreader/tsea:362/text#page/pageviewer-idx?c=sea;cc=sea;q1=burma%20railway%20volunteers;rgn=full%20text;idno=sea362;didno=sea362;view=image;seq=267 /mode/1up ‘’Twentieth Century Impressions of Burma (1910) – Burma Railway Volunteers] , page 263. Website of Cornell University. Section discussing the history and activities of the Corps.</ref>
==Chronology==
*'''1899''' designation altered to Burma Railways Volunteer Corps (by GGO 730, dated 30th June 1899)<ref name=IAL />
*'''1906-1908''' numerical statistic = c 850 men. <ref name=Southeast />
*'''1st April 1917''' reconstituted as an IDF Unit with designation 21st Burma Railways Battalion<ref name=IA21>''Indian Army List'' April 1921, page 810-811</ref>*'''1st October 1920''' designated The Burma Railways Battalion <ref name=IA21/>
==Details==
*'''Headquarters''' - [[Rangoon]]
===Detached companies===
*[[Ywatang]]
*[[Yamethin]]
==Uniform==
In 1901: Khaki drill<ref name=IAL />
In 1911: "Sanction has been accorded for the Maulmain Volunteer Rifles and the Burma Rifles Volunteer Corps to wear drab instead of scarlet for the full dress uniform, The old uniform was dark green serge when those two corps were embodied in 1877" <ref>[http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/singfreepressb19110918.2.17.aspx The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser 18 September 1911, Page 4]</ref>
In 1921: Uniform - Full dress (Officers only) Drab
<br>Facings - Maroon
<br>Working Dress – Khaki drill.<ref name=IA21/>
==Muster Rolls==
Muster Roll of 1884-1885 [[Rangoon Volunteer Rifles]] is found at [http://www.angloburmeselibrary.com/the-volunteers.html The Anglo Burmese Library website]
The earlier Muster Roll of 1879 Rangoon Volunteer Rifles on the same page designates "E" Company as the Railway Company
==Notes==
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==External links==
*[http://seasiavisions.library.cornell.edu/bookreader/sea:362/#page/263/mode/1up Photograph, Burma Railway Volunteer Officers and Non-Commissioned Officers] page 259, ''Twentieth Century Impressions of Burma'' (1910) , see above
*[http://www.rothwell.force9.co.uk/burmaweb/BurmaRailBn.htm The Burma Railways Battalion, BAF] from Steve Rothwell’s The Burma Campaign
*[http://www.rothwell.force9.co.uk/burmaweb/brvc.htm Photograph, at Augban, pre 1941] from Steve Rothwell’s The Burma Campaign
*The National Anthropological Archives located in the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum Support Center in Suitland, Maryland USA has in its [http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/guide/_b3.htm catalogue] the following photograph reference:
:“Burma State Railway Volunteer Corps. Lieutenant Colonel W. Innes was corps commander. The photographer was P. Kilien, of Rangoon. Date 1893 Call Number: Photo Lot 131”
:Copies may be [http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/ordering.htm ordered]
:A different [http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=13008X5854J7V.4&profile=all&uri=full=3100001~!70983~!0&term=Klier,%20P.%20Burma%20State%20Railway%20Volunteer%20Corps%20in%20Uniform%20and%20in%20Formation;%20Lt.%20Col.%20W.%20Innes%20(Traffic%20Manager),%20Commanding%201893&menu=search&submenu=subtab157&source=~!siarchives#focus catalogue entry] describes the photograph as “Burma State Railway Volunteer Corps in Uniform and in Formation; Lt. Col. W. Innes (Traffic Manager), Commanding 1893” with the photographer as P.Klier
[[Category:Volunteer Corps]]
[[Category:Railway Regiments]]
[[Category:Burma Volunteer Corps]]
