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North West Volunteer Rifles?
It would appear that my Grandfather was an instruction Sgt. for the North West Volunteer Rifles in Peshawar at some point between '14-18; does anyone have a link to their insignia?
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Would that be the North Western Railway Volunteer Rifles ?
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I think the full title was Bengal and North Western Railway Volunteer Rifles, but, like you, I can find no other one with the words "North Western" in it.
And it became 22nd Bengal and North Western Railway Battalion in the Indian Defence Force in 1917 (which falls within the time window given by the OP).
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So assuming that's your relatives Regiment then the badge in question is 2686A in white metal. When it was redesignated in 1917 as the North Western Railway volunteer rifles the badge would have been used was 2687 and was in bi metal. An interesting unit - "frequently in action on the North West Frontier manning the armoured trains employed by the regular army". Tim
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To be honest, I don't know; these are the records I'm working from:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ian_Army_(1903) |
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The thing is, I can not find anything that precedes them in the Vounteer Corps, nor in the IDF, nor something that follows them in the AF(I) This is another interesting web site: http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php/Auxiliary_Regiments It has only the Bengal and North Western in it's list. But scroll a bit down and surprise: Quote:
But for the OP here that is a possibility that also may fit his search.
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I only found it, more or less by incident, by using the browser search function with "North West". In fact I did that to jump through the tables, but it brought me this paragraph. As I said, just by incident.
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I'll take it! Thanks, Henk.
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This is both the joy and the frustration of historical research. Every door one opens leads to a series of other doors .
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Further bewildering reading.
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Which doesn't make sense, does it? |
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Looking further into the burnt records...
In a couple remarkable docs I found, I find my Grandfather went on field service with the NWRVR, and was a Serjeant-Instructor for the Maxim gun. There appear to be other units as well, if I'm reading the (incredibly faded) writing correctly. The time period would appear to be 1912-18; so now I have to wonder if he would have spent time in Africa (the only field service I know of for the NWRVR) and not have the word 'Africa' appear in the records that I can find. Maybe the frontier. So my question is this- as an instructor, would he have worn the badge of his 'home' regiment, or the one he was instructing? Would he have worn a Maxim/MG badge at all?
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If he was an instructor on temporary attaxchment to a series of units, he's most likely have retained the badging of his parent unit. And he would have worn the arm patch of a qualified Machiune Gunner.
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Thanks! ...I have a feeling that patch may be hard to come by... I'm still trying to figure out the field service. I do still think the NWRVR badge should be part of my collection. I also wish I could find more on the NWRVR.
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