page_title: Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps
section_title: Great War
hierarchical_section_title: Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps / Great War
caption_attribution_description: English: Officers of the Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps attached to 2/4th Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment in Bermuda during April and May, 1918. Front row (left to right): Captain T.S. Murdoch, BVRC; Captain Jas. Paterson, Adjutant 2/4th E. Yorks; Colonel WH Land, VD, Commanding 2/4th E Yorks; Lietenant GR Atkinson, 2/4th E Yorks; Captain HH Lockward, BVRC. Back Row: Second-Lieutenant GCG Montagu, BVRC; Second-Lieutenant GC Conyers, BVRC; Regimental Sergeant Major R. MacDonald, 2/4th E Yorks; Second-Lieutenant WD Wadson, BVRC; Second-Lieutenant PS Ingham, BVRC; Second-Lieutenant SP Eve, BVRC; Captain SS Spurling, BVRC; Second-Lieutenant AH Lightbourn, BVRC; Second-Lieutenant EPT Tucker, BVRC.
context_page_description: The Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps was created in 1894 as an all-white, racially segregated reserve for the Regular Army infantry component of the Bermuda Garrison. Renamed the Bermuda Rifles in 1951, it was amalgamated into the Bermuda Regiment in 1965.
context_section_description: The BVRC continued to train and develop over the next two decades. When war was declared in 1914, it was embodied to fulfill its role within the Garrison. As the economy would have suffered from taking so many young men from their jobs, some soldiers continued to perform their civil jobs, before taking their turns standing sentry at the many places around Bermuda that the BVRC guarded. The primary task the BVRC was given was guarding the coastline but it filled other roles, the most important of which was as a staging point for trans-Atlantic convoys, overseen from the Royal Navy's dockyard on Ireland Island.
caption: BVRC officers attached to 2/4th Btn East Yorkshire Regiment in 1918
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