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*Badge - Arms of Calcutta surmounted on crossed rifles
*Motto - ''Per Ardua Stabilis Esto''
==External links==
*India-British-Raj post by Chris Woods <ref>Original URL was <nowiki>http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ/2013-11/1385284442</nowiki> indicating it was dated November 2013, however it cannot be now located in the current [https://mlarchives.rootsweb.com/listindexes/emails?searchemails=Chris+Woods&listname=india-british-raj&searchsender=on&page=1 Rootsweb Archives for the India British Raj Mailing List] searching for sender Chris Woods.</ref> 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", [probably the article available online, below].
:*23rd July 1925 consisting of 4 Infantry companies, 1 Armoured Car Section, 2 Light Motor Patrols, 1 Motor Cyclist Platoon
*Photograph<ref>[https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/vintage-cars-classics-india/162572-pre-war-military-vehicles-india-9.html#post4759048 Post 127, page 9 "Pre-War Military Vehicles in India"] Team-BHP.com.</ref> of Rolls Royce Silver Ghost armoured cars of the Calcutta Presidency Battalion Auxiliary Force that assisted the Calcutta Police in 1919 for over 2 months in curbing the disturbances that occurred then. Seen outside the battalion garage.
*[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)”
*[https://www.jstor.org/stable/44231002 "1694. An unusual Motor Cycle and Machine Gun detachment of the AF(I)"] by W. Y. Carman and Alan Harfield ''Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research'' Vol. 81, No. 328 (Winter 2003), pp. 384-392 (9 pages) jstor.org. Register with jstor.org, and read online for free. (Limit per month applies).
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[[Category:Auxiliary Force (India)]]
