This is a list of auxiliary

Auxiliaries

An auxiliary force is a group affiliated with, but not part of, a military or police organization. In some cases, auxiliaries are armed forces operating in the same manner as regular soldiers...

 regiments or units formed by the British in individual colonies of the British Empire

British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom. It originated with the overseas colonies and trading posts established by England in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. At its height, it was the...

. The units mostly led by British officers, had natives in the other ranks acted as volunteer force

Military reserve

A military reserve, tactical reserve, or strategic reserve is a group of military personnel or units which are initially not committed to a battle by their commander so that they are available to address unforeseen situations or exploit suddenly developing...

 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

Regular

The term regular can mean normal or obeying rules. Regular may refer to:In organizations:* Regular Army for military usage* Regular clergy, members of a religious order subject to a rule of life* Regular Force for usage in the Canadian Forces...

 units and forerunners to those countries modern military.

Africa

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...

• King's African Rifles
  King's African Rifles
  The King's African Rifles was a multi-battalion British colonial regiment raised from the various British possessions in East Africa from 1902 until independence in the 1960s. It performed both military and internal security functions within the East African colonies as well as external service as...
  
   garrisoned the East African colonies of Nyasaland
  Nyasaland
  Nyasaland or the Nyasaland Protectorate, was a British protectorate located in Africa, which was established in 1907 when the former British Central Africa Protectorate changed its name. Since 1964, it has been known as Malawi....
  
  , Kenya
  Kenya
  Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...
  
  , Uganda
  Uganda
  Uganda , officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. Uganda is also known as the "Pearl of Africa". It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by South Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by...
  
   and British Somaliland
  British Somaliland
  British Somaliland was a British protectorate in the northern part of present-day Somalia. For much of its existence, British Somaliland was bordered by French Somaliland, Ethiopia, and Italian Somaliland. From 1940 to 1941, it was occupied by the Italians and was part of Italian East Africa...
  
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• Royal West African Frontier Force
  Royal West African Frontier Force
  The West African Frontier Force was a multi-battalion field force, formed by the British Colonial Office in 1900 to garrison the West African colonies of Nigeria, Gold Coast, Sierra Leone and Gambia. The decision to raise this force was taken in 1897 because of concern at French colonial...
  
   garrisoned the West African colonies of Nigeria, Gold Coast, Sierra Leone and Gambia.

Bermuda

Bermuda

Bermuda is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States, its nearest landmass is Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, about to the west-northwest. It is about south of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and northeast of Miami, Florida...

• Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps
  Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps
  The Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps was created in 1894 as an all-white racially segregated reserve for the British Regular Army infantry component of the Bermuda Garrison...
  
   (1894–1965)
• Bermuda Militia Artillery
  Bermuda Militia Artillery
  The Bermuda Militia Artillery was a unit of part-time soldiers organised in 1895 as a reserve for the Royal Garrison Artillery detachment of the Regular Army garrison in Bermuda.-Foundation:...
  
   (1895–1965)

Ceylon

• Ceylon Volunteers (1881–1910)
• Ceylon Defence Force (1910–1948)
• Ceylon Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
  Sri Lanka Volunteer Naval Force
  The Sri Lanka Volunteer Naval Force is the volunteer reserve force of the Sri Lanka Navy. The present headquarters of the VNF is at SLNS Lanka in Welisara. 95% of the members of the Volunteer Naval Force are now in the active service and deployed across almost all Sri Lankan Naval bases, with a...
  
  

Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...

• Royal Hong Kong Regiment (1854–1997)

India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

Cavalry

• The Allahabad Light Horse
• The Assam Valley Light Horse
• The Bihar Light Horse
• The Bombay Light Horse
• The Calcutta Light Horse
  The Calcutta Light Horse
  The Calcutta Light Horse was raised in 1872 and formed part of the Cavalry Reserve in the British Indian Army. The regiment was disbanded following India's independence in 1947.-Operation Boarding Party:...
  
  
• The Cawnpore Light Horse
• The Ghazipur Light Horse
• The Gorakhpur Light Horse
• The Northern Bengal Mounted Rifles
• The Oudh Light Horse
• The Punjab Light Horse
• The Surma Valley Light Horse

Infantry

• 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
• 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 Peninsula 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

Ireland

Ireland

Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

• Irish Guards
  Irish Guards
  The Irish Guards , part of the Guards Division, is a Foot Guards regiment of the British Army.Along with the Royal Irish Regiment, it is one of the two Irish regiments remaining in the British Army. The Irish Guards recruit in Northern Ireland and the Irish neighbourhoods of major British cities...
  
  
• Royal Irish Regiment
  Royal Irish Regiment
  The Royal Irish Regiment is an infantry unit of the British Army.-1992 creation:With an antecedence reaching back to 1689, the regiment was formed in 1992...
  
  
• Royal Irish Constabulary
  Royal Irish Constabulary
  The armed Royal Irish Constabulary was Ireland's major police force for most of the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. A separate civic police force, the unarmed Dublin Metropolitan Police controlled the capital, and the cities of Derry and Belfast, originally with their own police...
  
  
• Royal Ulster Constabulary
  Royal Ulster Constabulary
  The Royal Ulster Constabulary was the name of the police force in Northern Ireland from 1922 to 2000. Following the awarding of the George Cross in 2000, it was subsequently known as the Royal Ulster Constabulary GC. It was founded on 1 June 1922 out of the Royal Irish Constabulary...
  
  
• Police Service of Northern Ireland
  Police Service of Northern Ireland
  The Police Service of Northern Ireland is the police force that serves Northern Ireland. It is the successor to the Royal Ulster Constabulary which, in turn, was the successor to the Royal Irish Constabulary in Northern Ireland....
  
  

Jamaica

Jamaica

Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...

• Jamaica Militia Artillery
• Jamaica Engineer Corps
• Kingston (later Jamaica) Infantry Volunteers
• Jamaica Home Guard
• consolidated postwar to form:
• Jamaica Defence Force
  Jamaica Defence Force
  The Jamaica Defence Force is the combined military forces of Jamaica, consisting of an Army, Air Wing and Coast Guard. The JDF is based upon the British military model with organisation, training, weapons and traditions closely aligned with Commonwealth Realm countries...
  
  

Malaya

Federation of Malaya

The Federation of Malaya is the name given to a federation of 11 states that existed from 31 January 1948 until 16 September 1963. The Federation became independent on 31 August 1957...

• Malay States Volunteer Rifles (1915–1936)
• Malayan Naval Volunteer Reserve

Trinidad/Tobago

• Trinidad Volunteers (expanded during WWII to form:)
• Trinidad Regiment
• Trinidad Volunteer Artillery
• Trinidad Home Guard

Medals

• Efficiency Decoration
  Efficiency Decoration
  The Efficiency Decoration is a defunct medal of Britain and the Commonwealth awarded for long service in the Territorial Army of the UK, the Indian Volunteer Forces and Colonial Auxiliary Forces....
  
  
• Efficiency Medal
  Efficiency Medal
  The Efficiency Medal was a medal of Britain and the Commonwealth awarded for long service in the Territorial Army of the UK, the Indian Volunteer Forces and Colonial Auxiliary Forces....
  
  
• Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration
• Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal