THE ARMY IN SOUTH AFRICA

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4288, 22 February 1901, Page 7

THE ARMY IN SOUTH AFRICA

Tli.ju;’:i tho forces in South Africa have boon to a small extent reduced by the withdrawal of tho Household Cavalry Composite Regiment, a battery of Horse Artillery, and the City Imperial and other volunteers, Home and colonial (says the ‘'Capo Times’’’ of January 2tiui). the number of the regular troops, railitia, Imperial Yeomanry, and volunteer service companies of line regiments remain about tho same as they have been since the last regiments were sent out early last year. There are still seventeen regular cavalry regiments at the front—the sth, 6th, and 7th Dragoon Guards, the Royal Dragoons, Scots Greys, Inniskilling Dragoons, tho sth, 57th, 12th, 16th and 17th Lancers, and the Bth, 10th, 13th, 14th, 18th and 19th Hussars: nine horse and 45 field batteries; and of engineers ten field companies, seven fortress companies, two railway companies, ono division of tho Telegraph Battalion, two troops of the Bridging Battalion, one field troop 4iiio 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.

Tho regular and militia infantry under Lord Kitchener, number 113 battalions. 81 of the former, and 29 of the latter. Tho regulars arc the 2nd and 3rd Grenadiers. Ist and 2nd Coldstreams, and Ist and 2nd Scots (six battalions of Guards), the Ist Royal Scots, 2nd Rova) West Surrey, 2nd East Kent, 2nd xvoya’ Lancaster, Ist and 2nd Northumberland Fusiliers, 2nd Royal Warwickshire, 2uil Royal Fusiliers, Ist King’s Liverpool, 2nd Norfolk, 2nd Lincolnshire, Ist and 2nd Devonshire) Ist Suffolk, 2nd

Somersetshire Light Infantry, 2nd West Yorkshire. 2nd East Yorkshire, 2n . Bedfordshire, Ist Leicestershire, Ist Koval Irish, Ist Yorkshire, 2nd Lancashire Fusiliers, 2nd Royal Scots Fusiliers, 2nd Cheshire, Ist oyai Welsh FuaUiers 2nd South Walts Borderer-, Ist King’s Own Sc >ttish l!.mlo/ors, 2nd CEtneroniaus, Ist Roy il i>.miskilln:g Fusiliers, 2nd GioueesA/siiiro, Ist end 2f d Worcestershire, l-o East 1 .inrasbiro, 2nd East Surrey, -:nd Derc -,f C*-rnv.ell’s Light Infant “v, Ist Wc<t Rilum, Lt Border, Ist Loyal >....svx. 2nd Hampshire, Ist South Staffordshire, 2nd Dorsetshire, Ist South Lancashire, Ist Welsh, 2nd Black Watch, Ist Oxfordshire Ligia Infantry, Ist Essex, Ist Sherwood Foresters, Ist North Lancashire, 2nd Northamptonshire. 2nd Koval 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 . a . ~. ,• ■ Manchester, 2nd North .'■daaordsi.ue. Ist- York and Lancaster, Ist Durham Light Infantry. Ist Highland Light Xn'“VT?'’, 2 , nd yeaforth Highlanders, Ist an( ‘ Gordon Highlanders, Ist Came-y-u A.lghlanders, 2nd Royal Irish Rifles, L'-c ■Vnd 2nd Royal Irish Fu-iliors, Ist Connaught Rangers, Ist Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Ist Leinster, Is: Royal Munster Fusiliers, Ist and 2nd Royal. Dublin Fusiliers, and Ist and 2nd Battalions of the Riflo Brigade. The Militia Battalions in South Africa are tho 3rd Royal Scots (Edinburgh), Urd West Surrey, 3rd East Kent, ’3rd and 4th Royal Lancaster, (Jth Royal Warwickshire, 3rd, Norfolk, 4th Somersetshire Eight Infantry. 4th West Yorkshire, 4tii Bedfordshire (Hertford Battalion), 3rd Yorkshire, Gth Lancashire Fusiliers, 4th Cheshire. 3rd South Wales Borderers, 3rd King’s Own Scottish Borderers (Dumfries), 4th Cameronians (Lanai k), 3rd East "Lancashire, 3rd We-t Riding, 4th South Staffordshire, 3rd South Lancashire, 3rd \V clsh, 4th Sherwood Foresters (Notts), Lilli Middlesex, 9th King’s Royal Rifles (North Cork), ■I til North. Staffordshire. 3rd Durham Light Infantry, 4th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Renfrew), 3rd Leinster (King’s County), and 6th Royal Dublin Fusiliers.