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, reports Scroll.
Advert for the Australian farms scheme – Civil & Military Gazette (Lahore) 26 July, 1922. Credit: British Newspaper Archive
In exchange for the officers taking out a loan from the company to pay the expenditures, which would then need to be repaid on a monthly basis, Australian Farms Limited would provide the land, tools, livestock, etc. necessary for the officers to establish themselves in agriculture.
The agreement also stated that Australian Farms Limited would ...
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