Difference between revisions of "Kolar Gold Fields Battalion"

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The Kolar Gold Fields Battalion were an auxiliary regiment.

1903 formed as the Kolar Gold Fields Rifle Volunteers (name tbc) on 23rd January from a detachment of the Bangalore Rifle Volunteers^[1]
1917 became 43rd Kolar Gold Fields Battalion on 1st April^[1]
1920 redesignated on 1st October as the Kolar Gold Fields Battalion^[1]

By 1940:^[1]

Uniform - Khaki
Badge - Crossed pickaxe and hammer in circle superscribed "The Kolar Gold Fields Bn", all surmounted by crown

This India List post includes the names of Officers and NCOs of the Kolar Gold Fields Rifle Volunteers, 1905 (scroll to near the bottom of the page)
“The Kolar Gold-Fields” Indian pictures and problems p182, Sir Ian Zachary Malcolm (1907) Archive.org, briefly mentions the corps of Volunteers
"Officers & NCOs of Kolar Gold Fields Volunteers" - Karnataka, 1896 - Old Indian Photos Photograph with nhandwritten names

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 *This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2010-11/1289094120 post] includes the names of  Officers and NCOs of the Kolar Gold Fields Rifle Volunteers, 1905 (scroll to near the bottom of the page)
 *[http://www.archive.org/stream/indianpicturespr00malcuoft#page/182/mode/2up “The Kolar Gold-Fields”] ''Indian pictures and problems'' p182, Sir Ian Zachary Malcolm (1907) Archive.org, briefly mentions the corps of Volunteers
+*[https://www.oldindianphotos.in/2014/07/officers-ncos-of-kolar-gold-fields.html "Officers & NCOs of Kolar Gold Fields Volunteers" - Karnataka, 1896 - Old Indian Photos] Photograph with nhandwritten names
 [[Category: Auxiliary Force (India)]]