An old archival photograph of my paternal grandfather, Shri Shyamala Ranga Bhashyam Naidu, seated, in a smashing stylish pale cream suit, with a sola hat, splendid oxford leather shoe, with horizontal striped socks, a good fountain pen, cream colored thin cotton hankie. This was probably the day of retirement of his Boss, in the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway Regiment which was one of the provincial Indian Railway Armed Regiments. My paternal grandfather took over from his boss, sometime in 1935-1940.
The Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway Regiment were an auxiliary regiment under the Bombay command. They comprised staff of the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway. They had an armed regiment, dressed in Khakhi, HQ Mumbai, called "B, B & CIR Vol Rifle Corps". My paternal grandfather later got dequartered in then Bombay, and thus, decided to settled down in the city, after being positioned in the regular administrative services of the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway.
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