THE IMPERIAL CONTINGENT.

Evening Post, Volume LXI, Issue 16, 19 January 1901, Page 2

THE IMPERIAL CONTINGENT.

[rRESS ASSOCIATION.] ADELAIDE, 18th January. The Government has been informed that the Impeiial troops will reach here in February, after their visit to New Zealand. ITS COMPOSITION. The Imperial Contingent now in Australia, and about to visit New Zealand, is composed as under: — Commanding Officer — Lieut. -Cob W. G. Crole Wyndham, C.B. (21sb Lancers). Staff. — Three officers and seven men. Captain Evelyn Wood (Scottish Rifles). Hon. Lieutenant and Quartermaster W. H. 1 Collins (King's Dragoon Guards). Regimental Sergeant-Major Laughton (21st Lancers). Royal Horae Artillery, V. Battery (56 men), Tuth two guns and one wagon under Major J. B. H. Askwith, Lieutenant Dixo». Household Cavalry (Ist and 2nd Life Guards, Royal Horse Guards), 24 men, under Captain G. C. Wilson. Ist King's Dragoon Guards {24 men), under Second Lieutenant W. T,. Y. W. Wood. 7th Hussars (22 men), under Lieutenant Viscount Cole. 21st Lancers (20 men), un<Je.r Lieut. R. H. Dick'-Cuuyngham. Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry (26 men), under Major Fitz. R.. P. Goddard, Second I Lieutenant W. F. 'Fuller. Royal Field Artillery, 10th Field Battery, with I^wo guns (56 men), under Second Lieutenant G. A. H. Hill. Royal Engineers, with wagons (with balloon section) tfnd pontoons (54- men), under Captain Powell, Second Lieutenant T. H. L. Spaight. Band HighUind, Light Infantry (34 men), under Bandmaster Evans. Royal Garrkon Artillery (43 men), under Second Lieutenant W. D. Warring-ion-Morrifi. Grenadier Guards (23 men), under Captain G. C. W. Heneage. Coldstream Guards (23 men), under Lieutenant the Hon. L. d'H. Hamilton. Scots. Guards (23 men), under Second : Lieutenant Lord Fakoner. Irish Guards (26 men), under Second Lieutenant R. C. A. M'Calmont. Second Queen's Royal West Surreys (23 men), under Lieutenant B. T. Churcher. Third East Kent Buffs (23 men), under Lieutenant M. S. Wiliiams. Somerset Light Infantry (23 men), under j Lieutenant C. E. Chichestcr. ' ! ! Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (21 i men), under Lieutenant A. P. WilliamsI Freeman. Northumberland Fusiliers (23 men), under Major J. F. Ridde-11. Royal Fusiliers (23 men), under Second Lieutenant A. C. Uhichester. Royal Welsh Fusiliers (20 men), under Second Lieutenant A. R. H. Rycrofl. Royal Irifch Fusiliers (22 men), under Lieutenant M. B. C. Carbery. Scottish, Rifles (Cameionians), 23 men, under Captain R. Oakley. ' " King's Royal Rifles (23 men), under Captain J. H. G. Feilden. Royal Irish Rifles (23 men), under Second Lieutenant C. M. L. Bechcr. Rifle Brigade (23 men), under Lieutenant R. P. H. Bernard. Pipers of different Scottish corps. Royal Highlanders (the Black Watch), 24 men, under Lieutenant Gveen. Seaforth Highlanders (Rothshire Buffs), 24 men, under Captain E. A. Cowans. Highland Light Infantry (24 men), under Captain o. W. Scrasc-Dickins. Cameron Highlanders (Queen's Own), 24 men, under Second Lieutenant J. M. Dougall. Army Service Corps (11 men), under Second Lieutenant F. W. D. M'Lean. Roya! Army Medical Corps (10 men), under Captain P. H. Whiston, Lieutenant D. 0. Hyde. The Indian detachment comprises representatives of the 18th Bengal Lancers, Queen's Own Corps of Guides (cavalry), 16th Bengal Cavalry, loth Bengal Cavalry, lltii Bengal Cavalry, 12th Bengal Cavalry, 9th Bengal Lancers, 13th'Bengal Lancers, 14th Bengal Lancers, 15th Bcngojl Lancers, 17th Bengal Lancers, Central India Horse, Ist Madras Lancers, 2nd Madras Lancers, Ist Hyderabad Contingent, 3rd Hyderabad Contingent, 4th Hyderabad Contingent, Ist Bombay Lancers, 2nd Bombay Lancers, 4th Bombay Cavalry, 3rd Pimjaub Cavalry, sth jaub Cavalry, Viceroy's uody Guaid, Imperial Servico Cavalry, Queen's Own Corps of Guides (infantry), 11th Bengal Infantry, 40th Bengal Infantry, 16th Juts Bengal Infantry, Ist Punjaub Infantry, 19th Pun jau b Infantry, 21st Punjaub Infantry, 29th Punjaub Infantry, 33rd Punjaub Infantry, 3rd Sikhs, 36th Sikhs, 37th Dogras, 38th Dogras, Ist Ghoorkhas, sth Ghoorklias, 46rd Ghoorkhas, Queen's Own Marines (sappers and miners), 4th Madras Pioneers, 10th Burma Rifles, 15th Madras Infantry, 17th Madras Infantry, 19th Madras Infantry, 22nd Madras Infantry, Ist Bombay Grenadiers, 2nd Bombay Grenadiers, 10th Bombay Light Infantry, 16th Bombay Light Infantry, 19th Bombay Light Infantry, 23rd Bombay Rifles, 2nd Infantry Hyderabad Contingent, 3rd Infantry Hyderabad Contingent, 6th Infantry Hyderabad Contingent, 4th Cashmere Imperial Infantry, Sirmoor. Sappers and Miners, Ferezapore Arsenal, Rawulpundi Arsenal, Cawnpoi-e Arsenal, and Poona Arsenal.