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They sailed from Bombay 16 July 1915, arriving in Basra 24th July.<ref>''En-Dor Unveiled : The Story behind The Road to En-dor'' by Tony Craven Walker, refer External links, above</ref>
The Volunteer Artillery Battery included some men from the [[Calcutta Volunteer Battery]], several men of the Bombay Volunteer Artillery, "some of whom made the great sacrifice".<ref name=TOI>"Volunteers At Kut: How the Gunners Fought" ''The Times of India'' 16 Oct 1919: page 12 </ref><ref> 'Searle of the Bombay Artillery' (with a footnote specifying Bombay Volunteer Artillery ) is mentioned as a POW following the fall of Kut in "Trumpeter Inwood, an Anglo-Indian hero of the Kut Garrison" by Rosemary Reardon page 25, ''[[FIBIS Journal]]'' No 32, Autumn 2014, quoting TNA WO 157/1059. However, his name does not appear on a list of Volunteer Artillery Battery members.(see following Reference). Alternatively, and perhaps more likely, the Bombay Volunteer Artillery men may have been part of the [[First World War#Anglo-Indians|Anglo Indian Battery]].</ref> There is also at least one member of the Madras Artillery Volunteers, C Rollins, whose CWGC entry for his death at Amara also records him as a member of the Volunteer Artillery Battery, RFA.<ref>
[http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/630052/ROLLINS,%20C ROLLINS, C.] Rank:Gunner Service No:5 Amara War Cemetery. Commonwealth War Graves Commission</ref>
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*"Kut Heroes: Bombay's Welcome": Corpl. Hutt and Gunners Archer, Gosh, Anderson, Ariss, Mitchell and Dias, all R.F.A. Volunteer Field Battery<ref>''The Times of India'' 30 Dec 1918: page 9</ref>
* See [[Calcutta Volunteer Battery]] for two POW death records from the CWGC website.
==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.
*''In Kut and Captivity : with the Sixth Indian Division'' by Major E W G Sandes 1919 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/stream/inkutcaptivitywi00sand#page/54/mode/2up/search/%22Artillery+Battery%22 Page 54], [https://archive.org/stream/inkutcaptivitywi00sand#page/126/mode/2up/search/%22Artillery+Battery%22 page 126], [https://archive.org/stream/inkutcaptivitywi00sand#page/140/mode/2up/search/%22Artillery+Battery%22 page 141], [https://archive.org/stream/inkutcaptivitywi00sand#page/154/mode/2up/search/%22Artillery+Battery%22 154], [https://archive.org/stream/inkutcaptivitywi00sand#page/158/mode/2up/search/%22Artillery+Battery%22 page 159]-160-161, [https://archive.org/stream/inkutcaptivitywi00sand#page/226/mode/2up/search/%22Artillery+Battery%22 page 227], [https://archive.org/stream/inkutcaptivitywi00sand#page/410/mode/2up/search/%22Artillery+Battery%22 page 410], [https://archive.org/stream/inkutcaptivitywi00sand#page/474/mode/2up page 475]
*[http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/148548 ''Britain’s Betrayal In India: The Story of the Anglo-Indian Community''] by Frank Anthony 1960. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.148548 Archive.org version]. Chapter VII "World Wars I and II", page 122, includes the Volunteer Artillery Battery which states it was "raised in Burma from the Anglo-Indians", page 124. However, the Battery was not exclusively Anglo Indian. For example, Elias Henry Jones, refer above, a Welshman, was initially a gunner (private) in the Battery.
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