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::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
*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)”
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