Raised in 1884, the Cossipore Artillery Volunteers, was a Calcutta based volunteer artillery unit. The unit had its origins dating back to 1888, when the regiment was raised. Volunteers from the Cossipore Artillery Volunteers served with the Calcutta Volunteer Battery in East Africa during he Great War. Like several other Calcutta based volunteer units, the Cossipore Artillery Volunteers included large numbers of Scottish expatriates - in particular from the Scottish city of Dundee - many of which were employed in the Jute Mills and Jute Trade centred on Calcutta, but controlled by Scottish capital. So many Scots served in the regiment, that it boasted its own regimental kilted Pipe Band. The regiment was eventually amalgamated to form the Bengal Artillery (Auxiliary Force India). Another key source of volunteers for the Cossipore Volunteer Artillery, was the pool of skilled European and Eurasian technicians and, who worked at the numerous Ordnance depots located at Cossipore and adjacent Dum Dum Cantonment.
