Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps
The Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps (BVRC) was created in 1894 as an all-white racially segregated reserve for the British Regular Army infantry component of the Bermuda Garrison. Renamed the Bermuda Rifles in 1948, it was amalgamated into the Bermuda Regiment in 1965.
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