Kolar Gold Fields Battalion
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The Kolar Gold Fields Battalion were an auxiliary regiment.
Chronology
- 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]
Details
By 1940:[1]
- Uniform - Khaki
- Badge - Crossed pickaxe and hammer in circle superscribed "The Kolar Gold Fields Bn", all surmounted by crown
External links
- The names of Officers and NCOs of the Kolar Gold Fields Rifle Volunteers, 1905 are listed in an India List post.[2] (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 handwritten names
