I share Doony's concerns about the badge. Also, there was never a '1 Bombay Pioneers', the nearest being the 1st Battalion, 2nd Bombay Pioneers, formed in 1922 from the 107th Pioneers and disbanded in 1933. Parsis were not one of the groups traditionally recruited into the British Indian Army, as they tended to be found in the mercantile and trade occupations. A very strange situation!
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