The Burma Campaign

Army in Burma - Order of Battle - 1937

A. Maymyo Infantry Brigade

Maymyo 10th (Abbottabad) Mountain Battery, Indian Artillery
2nd Battalion, The King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry less detachment
3rd Battalion, 20th Burma Rifles
4th Battalion, 20th Burma Rifles
  No. 10 D.S. Company, RIASC less detachments
  No. 11 Animal Transport Company, Mule, RIASC less detachment
Mandalay 2nd Battalion, The King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry detachment
2nd Battalion, 20th Burma Rifles
13 Field Company, Madras Sappers & Miners
  No. 10 D.S. Company, RIASC detachment
  No. 11 Animal Transport Company, Mule, RIASC detachment

B. Rangoon Infantry Brigade Area – HQ - Mingaladon

Mingaladon 1st Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps less detachment
1st Battalion, 20th Burma Rifles less detachment
  No. 10 D.S. Company, RIASC detachment
  Rangoon Arsenal, IAOC
  No. 21 Platoon (IMW), IAOC
Rangoon 1st Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps detachment
1st Battalion, 20th Burma Rifles detachment
  No. 10 D.S. Company, RIASC detachment

Order of battle at the point of separation of Burma Army from India, April 1937. This listing, taken from the Indian Army List for October 1937, still shows the Burma Rifles Regiment as “20th Burma Rifles. The “20th” was dropped from the regimental title upon separation.