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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9774, 22 March 1895, Page 3

According to the latest return, the total number of horses and mules belonging to the regular troops of the British army at home and abroad is 27,300, or 590 more than that set down for the year. A very large proportion of these horses are in India; and of the others, save for two cavalry regiments in Egypt and Natal., nearly all are ab home. The thirty-one regular cavalry regiments, including the Household Troops, employ 12,800 horses, leaving quite a third of the men unprovided with mounts, and the artillery have rather more than 12,000 animals, of which nearly two-thirds are on the establishment of the eighty field batteries, and 3000 are with the twenty horse batteries, or with the depots and riding establishments of those services. The remainder of the artillery animals are used by the mountain batteries, mostly stationed in India, and by the garrison companies. The forty companies (including the two remount companies of the Army Service Corps, all retained at home) have rather * over 1300 animals, the Royal Engineers 400, and the infantry battalions at) home about) 700, mostly for regimental transport eemce. j