The History of the SAFVC
8 JUL 1854
Singapore Rifle Corps established.
DEC 1887
Singapore Rifle Corps disbanded.
FEB 1888
Singapore Volunteer Artillery established.
1901
Singapore Volunteer Artillery Corps becomes the Singapore Volunteer Corps.
15 FEB 1915
Deployed in the Sepoy Mutiny of 1915. 11 dead volunteers.
1922
Reorganised into the Straits Settlement Volunteer Force. The SVC forms the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the newly formed SSVF.
15 FEB 1942
Fall of Singapore.
1948-1960
Deployed during the Malayan Emergency.
1949
Singapore Volunteer Corps reinstated.
1954
SSVF disbanded. SVC absorbed into the Singapore Military Forces.
1963-1966
Deployed during the Konfrontasi.
1965
People's Defence Force Act. SVC renamed the People's Defence Force and abosrbed into the Singapore Armed Forces.
MAR 1984
101 PDF, the last volunteer battalion, is disbanded.
15 FEB 2015
The SAF Volunteer Corps formed.
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Sources
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAF_Volunteer_Corps
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore_Volunteer_Corps