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*Badge - Arms of Calcutta surmounted on crossed rifles
*Motto - ''Per Ardua Stabilis Esto''
==External links==
*India-British-Raj [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ/2013-11/1385284442 post] by Chris Wood about the Calcutta Volunteer Rifles.
**2nd. Batt. Calcutta V.R. Motor Cycle Machine Gun Detachment (1913):
::35 Europeans with (15) motor cycles including 'Triumph' 3½h.p, 'Indian' 1912 V-Twin and an American 'Rambler', plus 4 motor cars, with .303 Maxim machine guns, personal arms being the Mk III Short Rifle. Designed as a mobile detachment. "Details from the Journal of the Institute of Military Historical Research"
:*23rd July 1925 consisting of 4 Infantry companies, 1 Armoured Car Section, 2 Light Motor Patrols, 1 Motor Cyclist Platoon
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090806235242/http://geocities.com/cdferree/history/longido.html Battle By Accident: The Battle For Longido Mountain, 3 - 4 November 1914] [East Africa] by Dennis L. Bishop and Holger Dobold. Contains a brief reference to “a section of the Calcutta Volunteer Maxim Battery (2 machineguns)”
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[[Category:Auxiliary Force (India)]]
