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'''The Rangoon Port Defence Volunteer Corps''' boasted Artillery, Naval and Electrical Engineering Units. The [[Rangoon]] Volunteer Artillery Corps had been raised in October 1879 and the Naval and Engineering Units in September 1892. (At this time a Fife Band was attached to the Rangoon Naval Volunteers Corps.<ref> [http://www.archive.org/stream/notesstatisticsi00burmrich#page/2/mode/2up Notes & Statistics in Four Parts – Rangoon 1892] archive.org </ref>) To overview these three branches, the Rangoon Port Defence Volunteers Corps was formed as an Administrative Battalion by Sir Richard Carnac Temple in 1893.
In April 1902 the engineering unit was restructured and divided into a submarine mining corps and an electrical engineering corps but the Corps was reorganised in May 1905 and, subsequently, only the electrical engineering corps continued.<ref name=Southeast>Wright, Arnold (Ed) [http://digitalseasiavisions.library.cornell.edu/cgibookreader/tsea:362/text#page/pageviewer-idx?c=sea;cc=sea;q1=rangoon%20port%20defence;rgn=full%20text;idno=sea362;didno=sea362;view=image;seq=268 /mode/1up ''Twentieth Century Impressions of Burma (1910)'' - Rangoon Port Defence Volunteers] , page 264. Website of Cornell University. Section discussing the history and activities of the Corps. Also contains a photograph showing [http://digitalseasiavisions.library.cornell.edu/cgibookreader/tsea:362/text#page/pageviewer-idx?c=sea&cc=sea&idno=sea362&q1=rangoon+port+defence&frm=frameset&view=image&seq=263 /mode/1up Uniform of the Rangoon Port Defence Artillery Volunteer Officers]. , page 259 </ref>
The Volunteer Artillery Corps had adopted the motto of "Repose and Defense" - which was later discarded.
