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The '''Volunteer Artillery Battery''' took part in the [[Mesopotamia Campaign]] during the [[First World War]], as part of the British Army R. F. A. (Royal Field Artillery). This unit may '''possibly''' also have been known as the '''Mobile Battery'''. However, for Army record purposes the men appear to have been mainly classified as Indian Defence Force, or according to the original Volunteer regiment in India from which they originated.
Detachments of the Volunteer Artillery Battery were captured at Kut.
* See [[Calcutta Volunteer Battery]] for two POW death records from the CWGC website.
==Medal Index Cards==
The Medal Index Cards for Bombardier J Baroni, and Gunner F W Sirr list the Corps as "Indian Defence Force".<ref>
[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D7550519 Medal card of Baroni, J Corps: Indian Defence Force Regiment No: 16 ...] WO 372/25/1134 and [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D7566359 Medal card of Sirr, F W Corps: Indian Defence Force Regiment No: 49 ...] WO 372/28/3521</ref>
==External links==
*''En-Dor Unveiled : The Story behind The Road to En-dor'' by Tony Craven Walker February 2014. [http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hesperuspress.com%2Fthe-road-to-en-dor%2Fdownloads%2FEndorUnveiled.pdf html version], [https://www.hesperuspress.com/the-road-to-en-dor/downloads/EndorUnveiled.pdf pdf], [http://www.hesperuspress.com/the-road-to-en-dor/download-free-ebook.htm link to other downloads] hesperuspress.com. Retrieved 26 October 2014. Contains correspondence from E H Jones, refer "Historical books online" below. He was part of the Contingent from Burma.
