A total of 93 officers in all left India and relocated to Australia with sizable landholdings. Here is why some British Indian Army officers migrated to Australia to become farmers.
The Royal Warrant 1922 was put into effect in April 1923, and a number of Indian Army officers discovered that their positions were "surplus to requirements."
One of the alternatives offered to these officers was the chance to relocate to the Australian state of Victoria with a sizable farming plot of land...
