THE COLONIAL DIVISION.
ARRANGEMENT OF THE " ; FORCES. MAJOR ROBIN'S CONTINGENT. London, April 14. > Lieutenant-Colonel Martyn is chief staff officer of Major-General Hutton's division; Lord Rosmead aide-de-camp; and Colonel Hoad, Victoria, assistant adjutant-general. The Major of Brigade, New South Wales, and Major Cartwright, Canada, sire also assistant-adjutants. Colonel Gordon, South Australia, is officer-in-charge of the communications, with Captain Rankin, of the Mounted Infantry, South Africa, as staff officer. Major Yandeleur, of the Scots Guards, has been advanced to the position of base transport officer.
The four corps of the division ' 7 ill be under the commands respectively of Colonels Alderson, De Lisle, Pilcher, and Henry.
The first corps includes the force raised by Lord Strathcona.
The second corps comprises Major Knight's •. New South Wales mounteds and Captain Moore's West Australians.
The third corps includes Ricardo's Queenslanders and Robin's New Zealanders.
The fourth comprises Colonel Price's Victorians, Captain Reid's South Australians, and Captain Cameron's Tasmanians.
The division includes all the Australians except the cavalry.
Each corps, with the exception of New South Wales, will be accompanied by a force of Imperial mounted men. A battery of Imperial Artillery also joins, besides the Canadian Artillery and a number of Vickers-Maxims.
The New South Wales Army Medical Corps under Surgeon-Colonel Williams, constitute the medical branch of the division.'
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11347, 16 April 1900, Page 5
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