Upper Burma Volunteer Rifle Corps

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The Upper Burma Volunteer Rifles were an auxiliary regiment based in Burma. The battalion was raised on 9th December 1886 as the Upper Burma Volunteer Rifles. As part of the Indian Defence Force Act of 1917, all the units of the Indian Volunteers became units of the Indian Defence Force and the battalion was retitled the 34th Upper Burma Battalion on 1st April 1917. With the formation of the Indian Auxiliary Force in 1920 the battalion was again retitled as the Upper Burma Battalion. It retained this title when transferred to the Burma Auxiliary Force in April 1937, following the transfer of units to the Burma Army with the separation of administration from India[1]

Chronology

  • 1886 raised 6th December[2]

Details

Detached companies

In 1901:[2]

In the early 1900s, Shwebo was the headquarters of a company of the Upper Burma Volunteer Rifles, drawn from the Shwebo, Katha, Bhamo, and Myitkyina Districts. [3]

Notes

  1. The Upper Burma Battalion, Burma Auxiliary Force from Steve Rothwell’s The Burma Campaign
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Indian Army List 1st Sept 1901
  3. Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 22, page 321

External links

Historical books online

  • "Upper Burma Volunteer Rifles" Twentieth century impressions of Burma : its history, people, commerce, industries, and resources, page 267 by Arnold Wright 1910 Southeast Asia Visions