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Indian Army EEF, Outline
History
Roll of Honour
Indian Army EEF, Roll of Honour
Lest we forget
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Indian Army EEF, Roll of Honour
Battles where Australians fought, 1899-1920
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Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps
Further Reading:
AIF, MEF, EEF & DMC, The Indian Subcontinent
Battles where Australians fought, 1899-1920
AIF, MEF, EEF & DMC
The Indian Subcontinent
Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps, Outline
Hat Badge of the Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps
Unitas Salus Nostra - Unity, Our Salvation
South Africa, 1902
Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps
In 1900 the Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps was established with headquarters in Kandy; the officers and other ranks were made up of Europeans, who were tea and rubber planters in the central highlands of Ceylon. It’s first Commanding Officer was Colonel R.N. Farquharson, a retired Naval Captain. The regiment was a volunteer regiment mobilized under internal emergencies or for deployments overseas.
The regiment's first deployment was in 1902 when a detachment was sent to South Africa arriving just before hostilities ended, not having experienced combat in the Second Boer War. The overall conduct of Ceylon troops received accolades from General Kitchener, Chief of Staff to Lord Roberts in South Africa, who affirmed, “The Ceylon Contingent did very good work in South Africa I only wish we had more of them.”
In the First World War the regiment sent a force of 8 officers and 229 other ranks commanded by Major J. Hall Brown. The unit sailed for Egypt on October 1914, and was deployed in defence of the Suez Canal. After which the unit was transferred to the Australia New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) and was in 1915 dispatched to Anzac Cove (‘Z’ Beach) on the Gallipoli Peninsula. The CPRC also performed operational duties as guards to ANZAC headquarter staff, including the General Officer Commanding ANZAC, Lieutenant General William Birdwood, who remarked, “I have an excellent guard of Ceylon Planters who are such a nice lot of fellows.” According to its onetime Commanding Officer (CO), Colonel T.Y. Wright (1904-1912), the CPRC had sustained overall losses of 80 killed and 99 wounded in the First World War.
Further Reading:
The Battle of Anzac Cove, Gallipoli, 25 April 1915
AIF, MEF, EEF & DMC, The Indian Subcontinent
Battles where Australians fought, 1899-1920
AIF, MEF, EEF & DMC
The Indian Subcontinent
Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps, Officers 1908
Hat Badge of the Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps
Unitas Salus Nostra - Unity, Our Salvation
South Africa, 1902
Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps Officers
Honorary Colonel
Right Honorable Sir JW Ridgeway, GCB, GCMG, KCSI.
Lieutenant Colonel
Lieutenant Colonel TY Wright, 19 July 1904, South African Veteran.
Majors
Major GA Craib, 13 February 1906.
Major WH Biddulph, 1 June 1906.
Captains
Captain JE Martin, 12 February 1902.
Captain E Rosling, 5 November 1903.
Captain W Sinclair, 1 June 1904, Assistant Adjutant.
Captain AJ Forbes, 20 February 1907.
Captain EK Smith, 3 April 1907.
Captain GCS Hodgson, 25 June 1907.
Lieutenants
Lieutenant EB Creasy, 7 October 1903.
Lieutenant EM De C Short, 5 November 1903.
Lieutenant J Hall-Brown, 28 December 1906.
Lieutenant H Worship, 28 December 1906.
Second Lieutenants
Second Lieutenant FC Smith, 31 March 1906.
Second Lieutenant MM Smith, 20 February 1907.
Second Lieutenant F Booth, 20 February 1907.
Second Lieutenant A McP Blair, 20 February 1907.
Second Lieutenant WJ Agar, 20 February 1907.
Second Lieutenant FW Boyd, 20 June 1907.
Second Lieutenant GW Bolton, 2 July 1907.
Vacant
Captain W Sinclair, 1 June 1904.
Lieutenant JG Veall, 13 February 1904.
Further Reading:
Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps, Outline
AIF, MEF, EEF & DMC, The Indian Subcontinent
Battles where Australians fought, 1899-1920
EEF
Indian Army, EEF
Roll of Honour
The Roll of Honour contains the names of all the men from the Indian Army enrolled within the Egyptian Expeditionary Force known to have served and lost their lives in Egypt and Palestine during the Great War.
Roll of Honour
Indian Army EEF, Roll of Honour
Lest We Forget
Further Reading:
Indian Army EEF, Roll of Honour
Battles where Australians fought, 1899-1920
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