- British Colonial Auxiliary Forces
This is a list of
auxiliary regiments or units formed by the British in individual colonies of theBritish Empire . The units mostly lead by British officers, had natives in the other ranks acted as volunteer force in those colonies and at time been used in conflicts the British Empire was involved in.Many of these units started out as auxiliary units and later became
regular units and forerunners to those countries modern military.List of Colonial Auxiliary Forces
Antigua Australia Barbados Bermuda *
Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps (1894-1965)
*Bermuda Militia Artillery (1895-1965)British Guiana British Honduras Burma *Burma Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve [ [http://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst;jsessionid=LfxbGZJbxnzHphhz1PxQnPcl85lT9mVxDNyf9XlhLvBLTRPydLJ0!-681372141?docId=5002319278 The Burma Navy under the SLORC.] ]
Canada Ceylon *Ceylon Volunteers (1881 - 1910)
*Ceylon Defence Force (1910 - 1948)
*Ceylon Royal Naval Volunteer ReserveDominica Falkland Islands *
Falkland Islands Defence Force (1892 - Present)Fiji *
Fiji Defence Force Gibraltar *
Royal Gibraltar Regiment Gold Coast Grenada Guernsey Hong Kong *Royal Hong Kong Regiment (1854-1997)
India ;Cavalry
*The Assam Valley Light Horse
*The Bihar Light Horse
*The Bikaner Camel Corps
*The Bombay Light Horse
*The Calcutta Light Horse
*Queen Victoria's Own Corps of Guides (Frontier Force)
*The Ghazipur Light Horse
*The Goraldpur Light Horse
*The Oudh Light Horse
*The Punjab Light Horse
*The Surma Valley Light Horse ;Infantry
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The Agra Volunteer Rifle Corps
*The Allahabad Rifles
*The Assam Bengal Railway Battalion
*The Baluchistan Volunteer Rifle Corps
*The Bangalore Contingent
*The Bengal and North West Railway Battalion
*The Bengal Nagpur Railway Battalion
*The Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway Regiment
*The Bombay Volunteer Rifles Corps
*The Calcutta and Presidency Battalion
*The Calcutta Presidency Battalion
*The Cawnpore Rifles
*The Chota Nagpur Regiment
*The Coorg and Mysore Company
*The Coorg and Mysore Rifles
*Queen Victoria's Own Corps of Guides (Frontier Force) Infantry which in 1911 became Queen Victoria's Own Corps of Guides (Frontier Force) Lumsden's Infantry.
*The Dehra Dun Mounted Rifles
*The East Coast Battalion
*The East Indian Railway Regiment
*The Eastern Bengal Company
*The Eastern Bengal Railway Battalion
*The Great Indian Pensinula Railway Regiment
*The Hyderabad Rifles
*The Kolar Goldfields Battalion
*The Lucknow Volunteer Rifle Corps
*The Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway Rifles
*The Madras Guards
*The Malabar Volunteer Rifles
*The Malwah Bheel Corps
*Meywa Bheel Corps
*The Midlands Volunteer Rifle Corps
*The Moulmein Volunteer Rifle Corps
*The Mussourie Battalion
*The Nagpur Rifles
*The Naini Tal Volunteer Rifles
*The Nilgri Malabar Battalion
*The Northern Bengal Mounted Rifles
*The North West Railway Battalion
*The Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway Battalion
*The Poona Rifles
*The Shillong Volunteer Rifles
*The Simla Rifles
*The South Andaman Volunteer Rifles Corps
*The South Indian Railway Battalion
*The Yercaud Volunteer Rifle Corps Jamaica *
Jamaica Defence Force Jersey Kenya *
Kenya Regiment Leeward Island
=Malaya=*
Malay States Volunteer Rifles (1915-1936)
*Malayan Naval Volunteer Reserve Malta Mauritius Montserrat New Zealand *
Waikato Mounted Rifles
*Hauraki Regiment Nigeria Rhodesia /Nyasaland *
Saint Kitts and Nevis Defence Force Singapore *
Singapore Volunteer Corps
*Singapore Naval Volunteer ForceSt Lucia Sudan *
Sudan Defence Force Trinidad/Tobago Medals
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Efficiency Decoration
*Efficiency Medal ee also
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