The East Indian Railway Rifle Volunteers at their camp of exercise, 1870 (c)

Photograph, India, 1870 (c).

The East Indian Railway Volunteer Rifle Corps was raised on 17 July 1869 under the Bengal Command. Part of the Indian auxiliary forces, its headquarters was at Jamalpur, the location of the East Indian Railway's locomotive workshops and associated colony.

One of eight photographs mounted on a sheet from an album, 1860-1870 (c).