Circa 1910-1935
Formed of Indian silver and embossed with a King’s crown over a light infantry bugle and the regimental title ‘G.I.P. Rlwy Regt’.
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The G.I.P. Railway opened in 1853 and in 1870 was connected with the East Indian Railway to make possible direct travel between Bombay and Calcutta. The advent of this latter route is said to have been part of the inspiration for Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days. The G.I.P. Railway Regiment was part of the Auxiliary Forces of British India and was originally formed as a volunteer corps under the Bombay Command. Its members were part-timers belonging the railway’s European and Anglo-Indian staff. It underwent several changes of title becoming the 13th Great Indian Peninsula Battalion in the First World War. By the Second World War it comprised two of the fourteen railway battalions in the A.F.I.