THE ARMY IN SOUTH AFRICA

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1523, 28 February 1901, Page 24

THE ARMY IN SOUTH AFRICA

Though the forces in South Africa have been to a small extent reduced by tho Avithdrawal of the Household Cavalry Composite Regiment, a battery of Horse Artillery, and tho City Imperial and other volunteers, Home and colonial (says the “Cape Times” of January 26th), the number of the regular troops, militia, Imperial Yeomanry, and volunteer service companies of line regiments remain about the same as they haA r e been since the last regiments Avere sent out early last year. There are still seventeen regular cavalry regiments at thefront—the sth, 6th, and 7th Dragoon Guards, the Royal Dragoons, Scots Greys, Inniskilling Dragoons, the sth, 9th, 12th, 16th and 17th Lancers, and the Bth, lOthj 13th, 14th, 18th and 19th Hussars ; nine horse and 45 field batteries; and of engineers ten field companies, seven fortress companies, two railway companies, one division of

the Telegraph Battalion, two troops of the Bridging Battalion, one field troop, one field park, and three balloon sections. Of departmental troops there are at the front 41 companies of the Army Service Corps, nine companies of the Army Ordnance Corps, and a very large portion of the Royal Army Medical Corps.

The regular and militia infantry under Lord Kitchener, number 113 battalions, 84 of the former, and 29 of the latter. The regulars are the 2nd and 3rd Grenadiers, Ist and 2nd Coldstreams, and Ist and 2nd Scots (six battalions of Guards), the Ist Royal Scots, 2nd Royal West Surrey, 2nd East Kent, 2nd xvoyal Lancaster, Ist and 2nd Northumberland Fusiliers, 2nd Royal Warwickshire, 2nd Royal Fusiliers, Ist King’s Liverpool, 2nd Norfolk, 2nd Lincolnshire, Ist «md 2nd Devonshire, Ist Suffolk, 2nd Somersetshire Light Infantry, 2nd West Yorkshirej 2nd East Yorkshire, 2n . Bedfordshire, Ist Leicestershire, Ist Royal Irish, Ist Yorkshire, 2nd Lancashire Fusiliers, 2nd Royal Scots Fusiliers, 2nd Cheshire, Ist oyal Welsh Fusiliers, 2nd South Wal>s Borderers, Ist King’s Own Sc a-fcish. Ihndecors, 2nd Cameronians, isc Royal i ruiskiliir.g Fusiliers, 2nd Giouces-crmire, l-t and 2- d Worcestershire, lt.v, East lan a.shire, 2nd East Surrey, _nd Dire f (_. -r all’s Light Infant"y, Ist West Riding, Ist Border, Ist -•:*•>. x. 2ml Hampshire, Ist South Staffordshire. 2nd Dorsetshire, Ist South Lancashire, Ist Welsh, 2nd Black Watch, Ist Oxfordshire Lignt Infantry, Ist Essex, Ist Sherwood Foresters, Ist North Lancashire, 2nd Northamptonshire, 2nd Royal Berkshire, 2nd Royal West Kent, 2nd Yorkshire Light Infantry, 2nd Shropshire Light Infantry, 2nd Middlesex, Ist and 3rd King's Royal Rifles, 2nd Wiltshire, Ist and 2nd Manchester, 2nd North Staffordshire, Ist York and Lancaster, Ist Durham Light Infantry, Ist Highland Light Infantry, 2nd Seaforth Highlanders, Ist and 2nd Gordon Highlanders, Ist Cameron Highlanders, 2nd Royal Irish Rifles, Ist and 2nd Royal Irish Fusiliers, Ist Connaught Rangers, Ist Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Ist Leinster, Ist Royal Munster Fusiliers, Ist and 2nd Royal Dublin Fusiliers, and Ist and 2nd Battalions of the Rifle Brigade. The Militia Battalions in South Africa are the 3rd Royal Scots (Edinburgh), 3rd West Surrey, 3rd East Kent, 3rd and 4th Royal Lancaster, 6th Royal Warwickshire, 3rd Norfolk, 4th Somersetshire Light Infantry, 4th West Yorkshire, 4tli Bedfordshire (Hertford Battalion), 3rd Yorkshire, 6th Lancashire Fusiliers, 4th Cheshire, 3rd South Wales Borderers. 3rd King’s Own Scottish Borderers (Dumfries), 4th Cameronians (Lanark), 3rd East Lancashire, 3rd West Riding, 4th South Staffordshire, 3rd South Lancashire, 3rd Welsh, 4th Sherwood Foresters (Notts), 6th. Middlesex. 9th King’s Royal Rifles (North Cork), 4th North Staffordshire, 3rd Durham Light Infantry, 4th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Renfrew’)? 3rd Leinster (King’s County), and sth Royal Dublin Fusiliers.