THE BRITISH TROOPS IN THE FIELD

Otago Witness, Issue 2456, 10 April 1901, Page 26

THE BRITISH TROOPS IN THE FIELD

Though the forces in South Africa have been to a small extent reduced by the with drawal of the Household Cavalry Composite Regiment, a battery of Horse Artillery, and the City Imperial and other volnteers, Home anil colonial, the number- of the regular troops, Militia, Imperial Yeomanry, and Volunteer Service Companies of line regiments remain about the same as they have been since the last regiments were sent out early last year. There are still 17 regular cavalry regiments at the front — the sth, 6th, and 7th Dragoon Guards, the Royal Dragoon 3, Scots Greys, Inniskilling Dragoons, the sth, 9th, ' 12th, 16th, and 17th Lancers, and the Bth. 10th, 13th, 14th, 18th, and 19th Hussars ; nine hor B e and 45 field batteries : and of Engineers 10 field companies, seven fortress companies two lailway companies, ono division of the Telegraph Battalion, tvo'troops of the Bridging Battalion. one field troop, and field park, and three balloon sections. Of departmental tioops 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 Royal Lancaster, Ist and 2nd Northumberland Fusiliers, 2nd Royal Warwickshire, 2nd Royal Fusiliers, Ist King's Liverpool, 2nd Norfolk, 2nd Lincolnshire, Ist and 2nd Devonshire, Ist Suffolk, 2nd Somershire Light Infantry, 2nd West Yorkshire, 2nd EasJ; Yorkshire, 2nd Bedfordshire, Ist Leicestershire, Ist Royal Irish, Ist Yorkshire, 2nd Lancashire Fusiliers, 2nd Royal Scots Fusiliers, 2nd Cheshire, Ist Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 2nd South Wales Borderers, Ist King's Own Scottish Borderers, 2nd Cameronians, Ist Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 2nd Gloucestershire, Ist i>nd 2nd Worcestershire, Ist East Lancashire, 2nd East Surrey, 2nd Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, Ist West Riding, Ist Border, Ist Royal Sussex, 2nd Hampshire, Ist South Staffordshire, 2nd Dorsetshire, Ist South Lancashire, Ist Welsh, 2nd Black Watch, Ist Oxfordshire Light 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, 2rid Wiltshire, let 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 e>nd 2nd Royal Irish Fusiliers, Ist Connaught Rangers, Ist Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Ist Leinster, Ist Royal Munster Fusiliers, l9t 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, 6Wi Royal Warwickshire, 3rd Norfolk, 4th Somersetshire Light Infantry, 4th West Yorkshire. 4th 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), 6^h Middlesex, 9th King's Royal Rifles (North Cork), 4th North Staffordshire, 3Td Durham Li^ht Infantry, 4th Argyll and Sutherland Higlilandci'3 (Renfrew), 3rd Leinster (Kings County), and sth Royal Dublin Fusiliers.