Ring, Bt. Maj. J. T. (XVIIIth), in Crime_The Campaigns and History of the Royal Irish Regiment, [v. 1,] from 1684 to 1902

in India, 189;

in New Zealand war, 194, 201, 202, 207-208, 220, 394

Roberts, F.-M. Lord, in Boer war, 314, 316, 323, 343, 347-348, 357

Roberts, Lt. S. (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 40, 386

Roberts’ Horse, in Boer war, 362, 363

Robinson, Hon. Capt. and Paymaster P. A. (XVIIIth), in Egypt, 1882, 240;

in Hazara campaign, 290

Rocke, Maj. J. H. (XVIIIth), in New Zealand war, 194, 214-220

Rogers, Lt. C. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 121

Rogers, Lt.-Col. G. W. N. (XVIIIth), in India, 225;

in Egypt, 1882, 240, 251, 252;

in Hazara campaign, 289, 290, 298

Rolleston, Capt. A. (XVIIIth), at Namur, 22, 40, 385-386

Rolleston, Capt. F. (XVIIIth), 5

Rolleston, Ensign W. (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 40

Rooke, Admiral Sir George, 14

Rosetta, 114

Royal Irish Regiment, the, raised in 1684, 1;

successive names borne by, 1-2;

strange experience of the regt. at Colnbrook, 3-4;

re-equipment of the regt., 4;

reported by Schomberg to be the best regt. in his army, 6;

wins distinction at siege of Limerick, 7;

in battle of Aughrim, 12;

turned into a marine corps for some months, 14;

the regt. in the assault on Terra Nova, 19;

William’s recognition of the bravery displayed in siege of Namur,

20-21;

Venloo stormed by, 27-28;

detachment of, at the storming of the Schellenberg, 32-33;

battle of Blenheim, 33-40;

battle of Ramillies, 44;

wins glory at siege of Menin, 45;

first regt. under fire at battle of Oudenarde, 48;

desperate gallantry of, at Tournai, 55-56;

Parker’s account of the Royal Irish at battle of Malplaquet, 58-59;

a detachment of, in defence of Gibraltar, 69-70;

recruiting standard of, in 1731, 70-71;

in Low Countries, 73-77;

at Lexington, 79-81;

bravery displayed by troops at Bunker’s Hill, 83-85;

mutiny in Guernsey quelled by, 87-89;

takes part in defence of Toulon, 91-95;

in capture of Calvi in Corsica, 98-100;

in the landing in Tuscany, 102-103;

in the campaign in Egypt under Abercromby, 107-115;

the second battalion raised, 116;

and disbanded, 118;

in the first Chinese war, 121-144;

in second Burmese war, 145-161;

in Crimean war, 164-188;

in Indian Mutiny, 189-192;

in the war in New Zealand, 194-220;

in second Afghan war, 229-231;

in the Egyptian war of 1882, 240-252;

in Nile Expedition, 258-287;

in the Hazara or Black Mountain expedition, 289-298;

in Tirah campaign, 299-307;

contingent of Royal Irish mounted infantry serves in Mashonaland,

307-308;

the regt. in the Boer war, 311-372;

mounted infantry furnished by the regt, for service in the Boer war,

361-369;

casualty roll of the various campaigns of, 385-402;

names of officers of, who died of disease in West Indies, 403;

names of members of the regt. to whom the Victoria Cross has been

awarded, 404;

names of N.C.O. and men of, to whom distinguished conduct medal has

been granted, 404-405;

names of warrant officers and N.C.O. of, to whom meritorious service

medal has been granted, 405;

names of N.C.O. and men of, who gained good conduct medal between

1849 and June 1902, 405-413, 414-415;

South African kit of, 416;

extract from Record of Service of first battalion in Boer war,

418-421;

succession of colonels of the Royal Irish and their biographies,

422-430;

memorials to those of the regt. who fell in various campaigns,

431-439

Royal Navy, the, at Toulon, 94-97;

at Elba, 102-104;

at Cadiz, 105;

in Egypt, 1801, 110-111;

in Chinese war, 125-140;

in Burmese war, 146-151;

in Crimean war, 187;

in New Zealand war, 198, 214;

in Egyptian war of 1882, 235, 237-238, 241;

in Nile Expedition, 257, 274, 278-282

Royal Regiment of Foot of Ireland, name given to the Royal Irish

Regiment at Namur by William III., 21

Royal Regiment of Ireland, on Irish establishment in 1684--sides with

James II.--joins army of Louis XIV., 21;

meets Royal Irish Regiment at Malplaquet, 58-59

Rundle, Lt.-General, in Boer war, 323, 330, 333, 340

Ruremonde, 28

Russell, Lt. J. J. R. (XVIIIth), in New Zealand war, 194, 204

Russell, Sir William, letter to ‘Times,’ 177-178

Russia, 162, 166-184, 186-187, 228-229

Ryan, L/-Corp. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 328

Ryan, Pte. J., No. 4129 (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 340, 371

Ryatt, Asst.-Surgeon (XVIIIth), in Crimean war, 165

Ryswick, Peace of, 23

St Arnaud, Marshal, in Crimea, 163

St Gillain, 76-77

St Leger, Capt. John (XVIIIth), 2

St Leger, Capt. S. E. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 310, 312, 361-363

St Ruth, General, in Irish war of William III., 9-13

St Venant, town in France, 60

St Vincent, Admiral Lord, 103-104

Salalieh, Egypt, 108

Salisbury, Rhodesia, 307

Salvin, Paymaster H. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 119, 403

San Domingo, 117, 118

Sannah’s Post, 322;

Royal Irish section of mounted infantry at, 362-363

Sargent, Maj. E. W. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 121, 143;

in Burmese war, 147;

in Crimean war, 165;

in India, 189, 225

Sargent, Capt. J. J. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 121, 128, 389

Sarras, 262, 263, 266;

Royal Irish win Lord Wolseley’s prize for fastest voyage to Debbeh

from, 269-270

Savile, Colonel A. R., letter of General Gordon to, 185-186;

valuable services in preparation of the history of the regiment,

preface p. viii.

Sarsfield, General, in Irish war of William III., 7, 11, 12

Saxe, Marshal, 74

Schellenberg, the, attacked by detachment of Royal Irish, 31-33

Schomberg, Marshal Duke of, commands William III.’s forces in Ireland,

his report on the regt., 6, 16

Scott, Ensign James (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 58

Scott, Lt. P. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 117, 403

Seaman, Asst.-Surgeon W. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 119

Sebastopol, 163, 165, 166, 174, 183-185

Sebright, General Sir John, Bart., Colonel of Royal Irish Regt., 422;

biography of, 426

Segrave, Lt. T. L. (XVIIIth), in Hazara campaign, 290

Selicke, Lt. R. (XVIIIth), Marlborough’s campaigns, 58

Senekal, 332

Senior, 2nd Lt. W. A. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 311

Serle, Ensign T. (XVIIIth), in North America, 85

Sessman, Pte. John (XVIIIth), in Crimean war, 188, 404

Sewell, Ensign T. H. S. (XVIIIth), in India, 225

Seymour, Capt. H. (XVIIIth), at Namur, 22, 385

Shanghai, 137

Sharman, Wm., officer of Royal Irish Regiment in 1736, 72

Shaw, Lt.-Col. Hugh, V.C. (XVIIIth), in Crimean war, 165;

in India, 189;

in New Zealand war, 194;

awarded V.C., 214-215, 216;

in Afghan war, 230, 231;

in Nile Expedition, 260, 269;

Lord Wolseley’s letter to, 270

Shee, Capt. J. (XVIIIth), in North America, 85

Shellal, 261

Shendi, 258, 259, 271

Shere Ali, Amir, 229

Sherlock, Lt. W. (XVIIIth), in India, 225

Shovel, Admiral Sir Cloudesley, the regt. serves as Marines under,

14-15

Simmons, Ensign P. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 121

Simmons, Quartermaster W. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 403

Simpson, General, in Crimea, 163

Simpson, Maj. A. W. (XVIIIth) in Nile Expedition, 260

Slaap Kranz, 340, 341

Slabbert’s Nek, the Royal Irish in attack upon, 333-341

Slator, Ensign W. (XVIIIth), in North America, 85

Smith, Ensign ---- (XVIIIth), at Limerick, 9, 385

Smith, Lt.-Col. ----, raid on Concord, 79-81

Smith, Lt. B. (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 40, 386

Smith, Capt. E. H. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 119

Smith, Ensign James (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 58

Smith, Ensign J. (XVIIIth), in Egypt, 1801, 110

Smith, Capt. St G. A. (XVIIIth), in Afghan war, 230

Smith, Ensign Samuel (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 40

Smith, Ensign T. H. (XVIIIth), in Burmese war, 147

Smith-Dorrien, General, in Boer war, 343, 346, 349, 350, 352-355

Smyth, Capt. R. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 117

Smyth, Maj. R. A. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 312, 365, 367, 370, 397

Snooke, Capt. H. (XVIIIth), in Egypt, 1801, 110;

in West Indies, 117, 403

Soudan, the, 253-258, 286

South African Volunteers, in Boer war, 362, 367

South African war, the.

_See_ Boer war

Southwell, Capt. John (XVIIIth), at Namur, 22, 385

Spencer, Asst.-Surgeon W. I. (XVIIIth), in New Zealand war, 194

Spens, Col., in Boer war, 353, 354, 419

Spyer, Col. J. H. A. (XVIIIth), in Afghan war, 230;

in Nile Expedition, 260, 307, 310

Stackpoole, Ensign E. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 119

Stacpoole, Capt. G. W. (XVIIIth), in Burmese war, 147;

in Crimean war, 165

Stainforth, Quartermaster J. (XVIIIth), in New Zealand war, 194

Stanhope, Ensign (XVIIIth), letter to Major Gillman respecting, 72-73

Stations of the regt. since its formation in 1684 to 1902, 375-384

Stearne, Brig.-General Robert (XVIIIth), his journal of the wars of

William III. and Anne, 2-60;

Colonel of Royal Irish Regiment, 422, 425

Stephenson, Capt. H. F. (XVIIIth), in Burmese war, 147;

in Crimean war, 165, 182, 392

Stevens, Lt. C. M. (XVIIIth), in Nile Expedition, 260

Stewart, Brig.-General, commands desert column in Nile Expedition,

271-274

Stewart, Col. D., 11th Hussars, sent with Gordon to Khartoum, 256;

murdered by Arabs, 270

Stewart, Surgeon J. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 122;

in Burmese war, 147

Stormberg, 312

Stotesbury, Lt. J. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 117

Strang, Ensign J. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 117, 403

Stratford, Lt. Hon. C. H. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 121, 141, 389

Stroud, Capt. Joseph (XVIIIth), 5;

in Marlborough’s campaigns, 40

Suakim, 257, 281

Suckling, Lt. F. H. (XVIIIth), in Burmese war, 147

Suez, 108

Suez Canal, 232-240

Sumpter, Paymaster L. T. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 403

Swaby, Lt. G. (XVIIIth), in Burmese war, 147

Swat Valley, tribes of, attack post at Malakand, 299

Sweeney, Pte. W. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 364-365, 371, 405

Swinburne, Lt. F. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 121, 141, 389

Swinburn, Capt. J. (XVIIIth), in Burmese war, 147;

in Crimean war, 165;

in India, 189

Swindley, Ensign A. R. H. (XVIIIth), in New Zealand war, 194

Sydney, Australia, 222-223

Symonds, Lt. G. H. (XVIIIth), in Egypt, 1882, 240;

in India, 288

Tabaksberg, mounted infantry of Royal Irish at, 368

Tallard, Marshal de, 33-40

Tanjur cataract, 264

Tank, town, 228

Tantia Tope, 191

Tartars, the, 122;

attack Ningpo, 133-141

Taylor, R., Surgeon’s Mate (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 40

Taylor, Capt. W. O’B. (XVIIIth), in Burmese war, 147;

in Crimean war, 165, 179, 182, 188;

in India, 189, 392

Tel-el-Kebir, battle of, 238, 241-250

Terry, Maj., in Egypt, 1882, 240

Tewfik, Khedive, 234, 235, 253-257

Thabanchu, mounted infantry of Royal Irish at, 366

Thacker, Lt. W. F. (XVIIIth), in New Zealand war, 194

Theobald, Lt. J. S. (XVIIIth), in Crimean war, 165;

in India, 189

Thomlinson, Maj. W. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 403

Thompson, 2nd Lt. D. M. (XVIIIth), in Afghan war, 230

Thompson, Lt. E. H. B., ---- batt. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 372

Timmins, Drummer Joseph (XVIIIth), 193

Timsah, lake, 238, 241

Tinghae, 123, 130-132

Tirah campaign, the, 299-303, 414-415

Tizard, Lt. H. E., Royal Munster Fusiliers, 299

Tobin, L/-Corp. M. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 365, 371

Tochi valley, attack by tribesmen of, upon British officer and his

escort, 298-299

Tod, Bandsman (XVIIIth), in India, 288

Todleben, General, splendid defence of Sebastopol by, 166-167, 173-176

Tomah, storming of stockade at, 154

Tomlinson, Lt.-Col. N. R. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 121, 134-136, 389

Toohey, Sergt.-Maj. William (XVIIIth), 405

Toppin, Maj. J. M. (XVIIIth), in Egypt, 1882, 240

Torres, Count de las, attacks Gibraltar, 66-70

Toulon, defence of, 90-95;

evacuation of, 95-97, 387

Tournai, siege of, 55-56, 386

Trains, instructions issued for the defence of, in South Africa, 417

Treasury, the, public indignation with shortcomings of, in Crimean war,

173

Tripp, Capt.-Lt. R. (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 40, 58, 386

Tufnell, Maj. E. (XVIIIth), in Afghan war, 230;

in Nile Expedition, 260

Turenne, Marshal de, 3

Turkey, co-operation of, with England in expedition of 1801 to Egypt,

107;

the Crimean war, 162

Tyrconnel, Earl of, devises reserve system, 2;

officers of the regt. disbanded by, 4, 5;

collects troops for James II., 5

Ughi, 291

Underhill, Lt. W. (XVIIIth), 5

Usher, Lt. W. (XVIIIth), 5

Vandaleur, 2nd Lt. T. B. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 312

Varna, landing of allied forces at, in 1854, 162

Vauban, towns fortified by, 17, 45, 51

Vauclin, Capt. W.

_See_ Vaughan, Capt. W.

Vaudemont, Prince de, covering operations at siege of Namur, 17-19

Vaughan, Capt. W. (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 40, 386

Vavasour, Lt. H. F. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 121, 123, 141, 389

Veale, Lt. R. (XVIIIth), in Egypt, 1801, 110

Vendôme, Marshal de, commander of French army in Flanders, 45-50

Venloo, storming of, 27-28

Venour, Lt. W. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 121, 139

Victoria Cross, names of members of Royal Irish Regt, who have been

awarded the, 404

Victoria, Queen, 164, 187, 302, 303

Vigors, Capt. P. U. (XVIIIth), 309;

in Boer war, 312, 361, 371

Viljoen, General Ben., attacks Monument Hill, 349;

captured by Major Orr, Royal Irish Regt., 359-360

Villars, Marshal de, operations of, against Marlborough, 41, 55, 56-60,

Villeroi, Marshal de, operations of, against William III., 17-18, 22;

against Marlborough, 41-42, 45-46

Wadi Haifa, 259, 261

Walker, Lt. C. W. (XVIIIth), in Hazara campaign, 290

Walker, Maj. E. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 117;

at San Domingo, 118

Wallace, L/-Sergt. ---- (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 371

Walsh, Ensign Edward (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 33, 40, 386

Walsh, Ensign Henry (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 40

Ward, Pte. ---- (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 363

Ward, Lt. A. T. (XVIIIth), in Egypt, 1882, 240;

in Hazara campaign, 290

Ward, Lieut. H. A. (XVIIIth), in Burmese war, 147;

in Crimean war, 165

War Office, the, public indignation against, owing to shortcomings in

Crimean war, 173

War with American Colonists, the, raid against Concord, 79-81;

Bunker’s Hill, 81-85, 87, 387

Waterford, 7, 9

Waters, Surgeon G. B. (XVIIIth), in Egypt, 1801, 110;

in West Indies, 117

Watkins, Lt. F. M. (XVIIIth), in Tirah campaign, 299

Watt, Lt. T. (XVIIIth), in India, 189, 394

Watt, Sergt.-Maj. T. (XVIIIth), in Crimean war, 188

Weddall, Capt. W. (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 40, 58, 386

Weddell, Capt. W.

_See_ Weddall, Capt. W.

Weir, Pte. J. (XVIIIth), in Crimean war, 182, 188

Welch, Lt. M. H. E. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 311, 367, 370, 398

Weldon, Surgeon R. (XVIIIth), 5;

in Marlborough’s campaigns, 40

Weldon, Ensign T. (XVIIIth), 5

Welkom, mounted infantry of Royal Irish at, 366-367

Wellington, Duke of, on our military weakness in 1846, 163

Wemyss, Lt.-Col. D. D. (XVIIIth), in Corsica, 97;

at siege of Calvi, 99, 100;

in expedition to Piombino, 102-103

Wepener, 322

West, Lt. H. (XVIIIth), 5

West Indies, 117, 118, 119;

names of officers of the regt. who died in, from 1805 to 1816, 403

Whelan, Pte. P., No. 2830 (XVIIIth), in Crimean war, 188, 404

Whelan, Pte. P., No. 3521 (XVIIIth), in Crimean war, 188, 404

White, Sir George, in defence of Ladysmith, 313

White, Capt. W. H. (XVIIIth), in Tirah campaign, 299;

in Boer war, 311, 335, 356-357

Whitfield, Capt. W. H. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 403

Whitley, Lt. J. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 117, 403

Wigston, Maj. F. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 121, 139;

in Burmese war, 147, 157, 160

Wilbraham, Ensign T. (XVIIIth), 5

Wild, Lt. R. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 117

Wilders, Lt. S. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 403

Wiley, Lt. I. (XVIIIth), in India, 189

Wilford, Lt. E. (XVIIIth), in Crimean war, 165

Wilkinson, Capt. Cuthbert (XVIIIth), 5

Wilkinson, Capt. J. G. (XVIIIth), in Burmese war, 147;

in Crimean war, 165, 182, 392

William III., King, 1-9, 16-21

Williams, Lt. B. C. W., Yorkshire Regt., 299

Williams, Capt. T. Warwick, 5th V.B. King’s Liverpool Regt., 312, 330,

370, 398

Willington, Lt. F. (XVIIIth), in Burmese war, 147

Willis, Lt.-General G. H. S., in Egypt, 1882, 236, 241-242

Wilson, Lt. and Adjutant A. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 121, 128, 141,

389

Wilson, Lt. A. I. (XVIIIth), in Afghan war, 230;

in Nile Expedition, 260

Wilson, Col. Sir Charles, in Nile Expedition, 272, 274, 278

Wilson, Lt.-Col. S. (XVIIIth), 223-224

Wilson, Lt.-General Sir John, Colours presented to the regt. by, 121

Wilton, Lt. E. H. (XVIIIth), in Crimean war, 165

Winburg, 323, 367

Wingfield, Capt. H. (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 58

Withers, General, at Malplaquet, 58

Wittebergen Mountains, 332

Wolseley, F.-M. Viscount, K.P., G.C.B., &c., amusing account of his

experience as a subaltern, 154-156;

wounded in Burmah, 160;

in Crimea, vi;

in Egypt, 1882, 236-251;

in Nile Expedition, 257-287, 302;

speech on presentation of new colours, 306-307;

Colonel-in-Chief of Royal Irish Regt., 422-423

Wolseley, Ensign J. R. (XVIIIth), in Crimean war, 165

Wood, Capt. J. J. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 121;

in Burmese war, 147, 152

Woodwright, Col. C. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 121;

in Burmese war, 147, 151, 158, 160

Woosung, capture of, 137

Worsopp, Capt. J. (XVIIIth), 5

Wray, Lt.-Col. T. C. (XVIIIth), in New Zealand war, 194, 202;

in Nile Expedition, 260, 261-262, 286, 289

Wright, Rev. ---- (Chaplain to XVIIIth), in Boer war, 317

Wynne, Lt. G. O. R. (XVIIIth), in Hazara campaign, 290, 298

Yang-Tse-Kiang, 128, 135, 136-137, 141

Yarner, Maj.-General Abraham, certificate given by, as to formation of

the regt. in 1684, 16

Yarner, Capt. John (XVIIIth), 5

Yeatman-Biggs, Maj.-General, in Tirah campaign, 299-301

Young, Ensign Jos. (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 58

Young, Surgeon Thomas (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 58

Zag-a-zig, Egypt, important railway junction at, 238, 244, 249, 250

Zand river, Royal Irish section of mounted infantry at, 363

FOOTNOTES:

[1] See Appendix 9.

[2] In Appendix No. 1 is given a list of the stations where the

regiment has been quartered in time of peace.

[3] Brigadier-General Robert Stearne, Brigadier-General Richard Kane,

Captain Robert Parker, and Sergeant John Millner, all of the Royal

Irish regiment, wrote histories or journals of the wars of William

III. and of Anne.

[4] An order to the Master-General of Ordnance, dated 14th February

1689, for the re-equipment of the regiment, gives these figures--

Firelocks.

Pikes. Tents.

Halberts. Flints.

Drums. Bayonets.

Bandalers

(=i.e.

Bandoliers.)

The full number }

of arms for the } 579 240 39 26 516 579 1000 156

regiment }

Whereof the officers }

have already } 60 0 7 5 16 79 0 0

Remain to complete }

the regiment } 519 240 32 21 500 500 1000 156

[5] See Appendix 9.

[6] See Appendix 9.

[7] (The names followed by a star are those of officers who had been

disbanded by Tyrconnel.)

Colonel--Edward, Earl of Meath.

Lieutenant-Colonel--G. Newcomen (sometimes spelled Newcomb).

Major--Fred^k. Hamilton.*

Captains--Robert Stearne, F. Preston, Chichester Philips,* J.

Worsopp, G. Hamilton, Parsons Hoy*, Cuth^t. Wilkinson, John

Yarner,* R. Needham, F. Rolleston.

Captain-Lieutenant--R. Pointz.*

Lieutenants--W. Flower,* G. Connock, Ant. Brabazon, W. Usher,*

J. Porter, Peter Latham,* Ch. Hubblethorne,* H. West, John

Culliford,* N. Carteret,* Ch. Brabazon, Robert Blakeney,* W.

Underhill.

Ensigns--J. O’Bryen, J. I. Chichester, G. Brabazon, T. Weldon,*

T. Allen, John Philips, Ed. Corker, J. Stroud, J. Leigh, H.

Brabazon, T. Wilbraham, R. Kane, R. Pigott.

Surgeon--R. Weldon.

--(Dalton’s British Army Lists and Commission Registers.)

[8] Although the regular regiments were now numbered, it continued

to be the fashion for many years to ignore their numbers and call

them by the names of their colonels. At the risk of committing an

anachronism, the author will at once adopt the modern system, and

write of the regiment as the XVIIIth or the Royal Irish.

[9] Walton’s ‘History of the British Standing Army,’ p. 135.

[10] See Appendix 2 (A).

[11] Thanks to the industry of Mr Dalton, the compiler of ‘British

Army Lists and Commission Registers,’ it is possible to trace with

some degree of accuracy the casualties among the officers of the

regiment in many, though by no means all the battles and sieges

between 1690 and 1712.

[12] In this and many other quotations from the regimental historians

the dates are according to the “old style,” and do not correspond

with those in this book, which are in the “new style.”

[13] See Appendix 2 (A).

[14] Story’s Continuation.

[15] See Appendix 9.

[16] Stearne.

[17] See Map No. 2.

[18] A letter preserved among the archives of the Brabazon family

shows that as early as 1689 the Earl of Meath was trying to obtain

for his regiment its proper place in the army.

_To_ WILLIAM BLATHWAYTE Esq.

Secretary att warr

att his house in Snt James Parke

London.

LISNEGARNEY _Alias_ LISBURNE

_Nov. ye 18th (89)_

DUKE SCHOMBERG’S HED QUARTERS

IRELAND.

Upon my Request to Duke Schomberg Concerning y^e post of my

Regiment; he told mee all the oather Regiments was posted as y^e

King had ordered him; of which he could make no allteraction tell

he knew farther his Mag^{ties} pleashure in y^e pertickuler of

Myne; his Grace appoynted Count Soalmes to enquier farther into

this matt^r & since by y^e Dukes appoyntment bid me give you y^e

State of my Case; which y^e Enclosed Certyfies by our Commissary

Generall, (Yarner,) & y^t when you ofered it before y^e King he

doubted not but y^t you would procure me an order, to be posted

as appeeres by y^e Inclosed. I beg y^e favour in y^e affaire, &

y^t you will give me a line in ansewer directed to me in this

place; which will be a great kindnesse dun to

Y^e asshured ffaith^{ll} servant

MEATH.

I doe hereby Certifie that the R^t. hon^{ble} the Earle of

Granard’s Regiment of foot was form’d into a Regiment the first

of April 1684, which was afterwards given to his son the Lord

Forbese, and afterwards, as I am informed, to S^r John Edgworth,

and now to the R^t hon^{ble} the Earle of Meath; Dated this 27

day of September 1689.

ABR: YARNER

_must^r Gen^{ll} of their_

_Maj^{ts} Forces in Ireland_.

[19] Surely the highest compliment ever paid to the Intelligence

Department of an Army!

[20] The modern names of the old numbered regiments are given in

Appendix 11.

[21] _I.e._, Prussians.

[22] When Lord Granard raised the regiment in 1684 a corps of Foot

Guards, called the Royal Regiment of Ireland, was on the Irish

establishment; in the war between James II. and William III. it sided

with the Stuart King, and after the surrender of Limerick it sailed

for France to join the army of Louis XIV., where it retained its

old name in its new service. The regiments were destined to meet at

Malplaquet in 1709.

[23]

----------------------------------+--------+-------+---------+------

Regiment. Officers |Officers| Other | Other |

killed. |wounded.| ranks | ranks |Total.

| |killed.| wounded.|

----------------------------------+--------+-------+---------+------

Grenadiers (drawn from } 8 | 10 | 150 | { 150 } | 318

thirteen regiments) } | | | {about} |

17th 3 | 8 | 101 | 149 | 261

XVIIIth 12 | 13 | 86 | 185 | 296

Mackay’s 2 | 15 | 73 | 166 | 256

Buchan’s 4 | 9 | 65 | 140 | 218

-----+--------+-------+---------+------

29 | 55 | 475 | 790 | 1349

----------------------------------+--------+-------+---------+------

[24] See Appendix 2 (A).

[25] This was probably an Algerian pirate, one of the swarm of

Moorish vessels which for centuries preyed upon the merchantmen of

southern and western Europe. When they captured a European ship, the

crew and passengers were carried off to Algiers and sold as slaves;

if there were women on board, they were bought for the _harems_ of

rich Moors. In 1816 England sent a great fleet to Algiers and after

a very heavy bombardment, effectually crippled the sea-power of its

freebooting population.

[26] In 1745 the XVIIIth had a somewhat similar experience at Mons.

See p. 77.

[27] Millner.

[28] The engagement took place virtually on the same ground as the

battle of Blenheim in 1704. French military writers always speak of

the second battle as Hochstädt, which is confusing to the English

student.

[29] From Parker we learn that the troops used to march off at 3

A.M.; about 9 they reached their camping ground, where “all manner

of necessaries for man and horse awaited them, so that the soldiers

had nothing to do but to pitch their tents, boil their kettles and

lie down to rest.” This admirable system, carefully organised by

Marlborough, whose care for his soldiers astonished his foreign

colleagues, naturally came to an end after the army had passed out of

the territories of the Allied Powers: once in the enemy’s country the

British troops had to face many hardships.

[30] The regimental historians do not mention the strength of the

detachment. Mr Fortescue states that the battalions on this occasion

were made up of contingents of 130 officers and men from each British

regiment.

[31] These were a battalion of the Guards, Royal Scots, and 23rd.

[32] ‘The Chronicles of an Old Campaigner,’ by M. de la Colonie

(translated by Lieut.-Colonel W. C. Horsley), p. 185.

[33] The British losses given by Millner are practically the same as

those adopted by Mr Fortescue (vol. i. p. 427). Sergeant Millner’s

casualty return is worthy of reproduction.

(First Part.)

+-----------------+---------+-------------+---------+-----------

| | | | |

| | | | |

+-----------------+----+----+-----+-------+----+----+-----+-----

| | K. | W. | K. | W. | K. | W. | K. | W.

| German (Horse | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 10

| Hollanders | 2 | 1 | 2 | -- | -- | 4 | 5 | 19

| Hanover | 1 | -- | -- | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 10

| Hessians | -- | 2 | 2 | -- | -- | 1 | 2 | 11

| Britains (_sic_)| -- | 2 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 13 | 12

| |----+----+-----+-------+----+----+-----+-----

| Total | 4 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 15 | 26 | 62

+-----------------+----+----+-----+-------+----+----+-----+-----

(Second Part.)

+-----------------+-----------+-------------+-------------+----------+

| | | | | |

+-----------------+-----+-----+------+------+------+------+----------+

| | K. | W. | K. | W. | K. | W. | |

| German (Horse | 9 | 36 | 268 | 1130 | 284 | 1182 | 1466 |

| Hollanders | 8 | 53 | 361 | 856 | 378 | 953 | 1311 |

| Hanover | 10 | 20 | 189 | 417 | 204 | 451 | 655 |

| Hessians | 3 | 14 | 91 | 195 | 97 | 223 | 320 |

| Britains (_sic_)| 16 | 58 | 420 | 1001 | 452 | 1084 | 1536 |

| |-----+-----+------+------+------+------+----------+

| Total | 46 | 181 | 1329 | 3599 | 1415 | 3893 | 5308 |

+-----------------+-----+-----+------+------+------+------+----------+

Of the above corps there were of the lieutenant-generals killed 6,

wounded 5; major-generals killed 2, wounded 2; brigadiers wounded 1.

[34] See Appendix 2 (B).

[35] See Map No. 1.

[36] The practice of compelling or inducing prisoners of war to

enlist in the army of their captors lasted until the nineteenth

century. During the great war with France we had in our pay

battalions composed of subjects of every country into which Napoleon

had carried his arms. The Emperor had drafted them into his

regiments, and when they were taken prisoners they usually preferred

to earn pay by enlisting in our army to languishing at Dartmoor or in

the hulks. Not unnaturally they showed, as a rule, no great anxiety

to meet their former comrades in battle, and usually found their way

to the West Indies as garrison troops.

[37] Some French historians, while they admit Tallard’s folly in

disregarding the opinion of his colleagues, deny that he used the

expression attributed to him by Parker, and father it upon St Ruth at

Aughrim.

[38]

(Table--First Part.)

-------------------+------+------+---------+---------+--------+---------

-------------------+------+------+----+----+----+----+---+----+----+----

Britains | | | K. | W. | K. | W. | K.| W. | K. | W.

Foot | 14 | -- | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 17 | 44

Horse and Dragoons| -- | 18 | -- | -- | 1 | -- | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3

+------+------+----+----+----+----+---+----+----+----

Total | 14 | 18 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 18 | 47

| | +----+----+----+----+---+----+----+----

Other Allies. | | |

Holland’s | 14 | 19 |

Lunenberg’s | 13 | 25 |

Wirtemberg’s* | 7 | 12 |

Danes | -- | 22 |

Germans** | 18 | 92 |

(11 batts. Prussian | |

7 do. Danes)| | |

+------+------+--------------------------------------

Total. | 66 | 188 |

-------------------+------+------+--------------------------------------

(Table--Second Part.)

-------------------+------+------+---------+-----------+-----------+------

-------------------+------+------+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+------

Britains | | | K. | W. | K. | W. | K. | W. |

Foot | 14 | -- | 26 | 74 | 509 |1220 | 557 |1350 | 1907

Horse and Dragoons| -- | 18 | 8 | 10 | 101 | 200 | 113 | 214 | 327

+------+------+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+------

Total | 14 | 18 | 34 | 84 | 610 |1420 | 670 |1564 | 2324

| | +----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+------

Holland’s | 14 | 19 | stations included | 772 |1424 | 2196

Lunenberg’s | 13 | 25 | Do. do. | 824 |1580 | 2404

Wirtemberg’s* | 7 | 12 | Do. do. | 450 | 674 | 1124

Danes | -- | 22 | Do. do. | 102 | 200 | 302

Germans** | 18 | 92 | Do. do. | | |

7 do. Danes)| | | |1724 |2500 | 4224

+------+------+---------------------+-----+-----+------

Total. | 66 | 188 | Do. do. |4542 |7942 |12,484

-------------------+------+------+---------------------+-----+-----+------

* (Seven squadrons, three of Hesse)

** (of the Empire, K. of Prussia, Circle of Suabia, Wirtemberg,

and other places)

[39] See Appendix 2 (B).

[40] See Appendix 9.

[41] Cust’s Annals, vol. i. p. 51.

[42] See Map No. 1.

[43] Kane, p. 69.

[44] See Appendix 2 (B).

[45] Parker, 133.

[46] See Appendix 2 (B).

[47] Other contemporary writers say that a large number of soldiers

found a miserable death in the sea of mud through which the army had

to struggle.

[48] Owing to the number of villages dotted over the battlefield of

Oudenarde it is almost impossible to give a clear description of it

in words. Reference to map No. 1 will enable the reader to follow the

letterpress without difficulty.

[49] In this cavalry affair the electoral Prince of Hanover,

afterwards George II., in charging at the head of a squadron, had a

horse shot under him. His rival, the Pretender, served at this battle

in the French army.

[50] During the night a large number of French soldiers lost their

bearings and strayed into the lines of the Allies. Eugene caught

many of them by ordering the drummers to beat the French “retraite,”

while Huguenot officers shouted out the rallying cries of various

regiments. The unlucky soldiers who answered to the call were pounced

upon, disarmed, and marched to the rear.

[51] See Appendix 2 (B).

[52] The Duke of Berwick was a natural son of James II.; he was in

the service of France, and greatly distinguished himself at the

battle of Almanza in Spain by defeating an army of the Allies, in

which were a considerable number of British troops. Almanza has

curious points of likeness to Fontenoy, for in both battles the

British won a great local success, but being unsupported by their

Allies were defeated at the end of the day.

[53] Fortescue, vol. i. p. 504.

[54] Millner remarks drily that after the French had flooded the

country they thought “they had our Army in a Pound, but searching

into the depths thereof they at last found themselves most snared

therein.”

[55] Fortescue, vol. i. p. 506.

[56] See Appendix 2 (B).

[57] Stearne.

[58] See Appendix 2 (B).

[59] See Map No. 1.

[60] Students of the literature of the Peninsular War will remember

frequent mention of the good terms existing between the British and

French soldiers when they met on outpost. Things seem to have been

much the same in the time of Marlborough, for Millner says that on

the night before Malplaquet “several of both sides had frequent and

friendly Commerce and Conferences with one another, as if we had

been in an alliance together; but at last each man being called to

his respective post, our Commerce was turn’d to, and swallowed up in

blood, as in the Salutations of the day after appeared.”

[61] The Malplaquet roll (Dalton, vol. 6) gives the names of the

officers who were at the battle of Malplaquet. The asterisks show

those who fought at Blenheim, not necessarily in the XVIIIth regiment.

Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel--R. Kane.*

Brevet Majors--M. Leathes* and F. de La Penotière.*

Captains--P. D’Offranville,* N. Hussey,* R. Parker,* W. Weddall,*

H. Wingfield, W. Leathes,* Ant. Pujolas,* Jas. Lilly.*

Captain-Lieutenant--R. Tripp.*

Lieutenants--S. Gilman, R. Ingoldsby, Jno. Blakeney,* B.

Devenish, John Cherry,* T. Carter, Simon Montford, E. Moyle, R.

Reed, Ch. Parker, Jas. Pinsent,* R. Selicke.

Ensigns--Jos. Young, Jas. Smith, Jas. Scott, R. Hawkins, T.

Broderick, T. Jennings, A. Forster, G. Halfhide, J. Eyre, J.

Hamilton, W. Hopkey, G. Mann.

Adjutant--R. Parker.

Quartermaster--Jacob Berger.

Chaplain--Rev. H. Reynolds.*

Surgeon--Thos. Young.

[62] Mr Callaghan, the historian of the Irish regiments in the

service of France, throws grave doubts on the accuracy of Parker’s

story, which however is corroborated by other officers of the XVIIIth.

[63] See Appendix 2 (B).

[64] Parker, who is corroborated by Stearne, tells a very curious

story about the grain rations at Aire. After saying that the enemy

had carried away all the wheat before the beginning of the siege, he

continues, “but we met with a considerable supply, which I fear will

scarce be believed by any but those that saw it. But fact it is, that

the soldiers found concealments under ground, which the mice had laid

up for their winter store, and that in such abundance, that it was

a great relief to us toward the end of the Siege. These hoards were

from four to six feet under ground, and in many of them our men found

some pecks of corn.”

[65] See Appendix 2 (B).

[66] See Appendix 2 (B).

[67] See Appendix 9.

[68] It is not known whether any of the XVIIIth were included, but it

is probable that Kane brought some of his old regiment with him to

the post of danger.

[69] Sayer’s ‘History of Gibraltar,’ p. 295.

[70] Sayer, p. 197. It would be interesting to know if the staff

officer who evolved the idea of thus “employing the unfortunate

Israelites” was heavily in debt to them!

[71] Sayer, p. 204. This writer mentions that out of the sixty guns

in position at the beginning of the bombardment twenty-three were

dismounted in seven days.

[72] In 1732 Cosby was succeeded by Sir Charles Hotham, Bart., who

on his appointment three years later to a regiment of Guards was

replaced by Major-General John Armstrong. See Appendix 9.

[73] See Map No. 2.

[74] The only mention of British losses at Ostend in the despatches

is a casual reference by Cumberland in a letter, where he speaks of

the seventy English soldiers taken by the French in the attack on the

covered way.

[75] Continuation of Stearne.

[76] The origin of grenadier companies is mentioned in Chapter I.

Light infantry companies were officially recognised soon after the

end of the Seven Years’ War (1763); they were composed of small,

active men, trained to act as skirmishers and in the outpost line. It

was the custom to collect the flank companies of different regiments

and turn them into provisional battalions: for instance, in the

attack on the Terra Nova at Namur the grenadier companies of thirteen

battalions were detached from their own corps and brigaded together;

and, nearly a hundred years later, both the grenadier and the light

infantry companies of the garrison of Boston were used in the same

way at Lexington and Bunker’s Hill. After the Crimean War flank

companies were abolished.

[77] See Appendix 2 (C).

[78] The engagement ought strictly to be called that of Breed’s Hill,

but it has always been known as Bunker’s Hill, and will be, as long

as the American War of Independence is remembered.

[79] The reinforcements sent to Prescott raised the number of

provincials on the peninsula to about 4000, but in Washington’s

opinion not more than 1500 were engaged at any one time during the

day.--Trevelyan’s ‘American Revolution,’ vol. i. p. 363.

[80] Trevelyan, vol. i. pp. 359, 360.

[81] Some historians consider that this number should be increased to

eleven hundred and fifty.--Fortescue, vol. iii. p. 159.

[82] See Appendix 2 (C).

[83] The following officers are shown by the muster roll as present

at Boston on June 25, 1775:--

Major--I. Hamilton (in command).

Captains--J. Mawby, J. Shee, B. Chapman, J. B. Payne, B. Johnson,

R. Hamilton, C. Edmonstone.

Lieutenants--G. Bowes, H. Fermor, John Mawby (adjutant), W.

Richardson, W. Blackwood, E. Crossby.

Ensigns--J. Delancey, E. Prideaux, G. Bentricke, T. Serle, F. J.

Kelly, C. Hoare, W. Slator.

Quartermaster-- ---- Batwicke.

[84] Bunbury, ‘Narrative of Campaign in North Holland,’ pp. 3, 4.

[85] See Map No. 3.

[86] The muster-roll of the XVIIIth Regiment for the six months

ending 25th December, 1793, gives the following list of officers:--

Lieutenant-Colonel--D. D. Wemyss, in command.

Major--J. Mawby (on leave).

Captains--W. Conolly, H. T. Montresor (recruiting), T. S.

Sebright (on leave), G. H. Vansittart (on leave), T. Probyn, D.

McDonald (on leave), J. Richardson, W. Gammell.

Captain-Lieutenant and Adjutant--R. Powell.

Lieutenants--J. Hope, T. G. Montresor (on leave), W. Morgan, C.

Dunlop, Sebright Mawby, H. Wolseley (on leave), W. Byron, T.

Mandiville (duty), M. Gamble, T. Holme (on leave), C. Grove, J.

Woodcock.

Ensigns--W. Johnston, T. Stuart, W. Iremonger, A. Steuart, W. R.

Rainsford (not joined), R. T. Bingham (duty), J. Woodcock, F.

Pennyman, G. Minchin.

Quartermaster--W. Musgrove (at Gibraltar for recovery of health).

Surgeon--C. Kennelly.

Mate--T. Jackson.

[87] Dundas, ‘Summary Account of Proceedings of Army and Navy at

Toulon.’

[88] Minto’s ‘Life of Elliot,’ vol. ii. pp. 205, 206.

[89] See Appendix 2 (D).

[90] See Map No. 3.

[91] Maurice’s ‘Diary of Sir John Moore,’ vol. i. p. 82.

[92] The despatch and Moore’s diary differ slightly about this date,

but they are in substantial agreement about the facts.

[93] The “Royal Grenadiers” may be an abbreviation of the grenadier

company of the “Royal Regiment of Ireland,” as the XVIIIth was still

frequently termed, or of “the Royals.” In the 2nd Battalion of the

Royals there were at this time two officers called MacDonald, and

in the Royal Irish a captain named Donald McDonald. If Moore was

accurate in his spelling of the name, an officer of the XVIIIth

shared with the future hero of Corunna the honour of being first into

the Mozello. In this assault Lieutenant S. Mawby of the regiment is

known to have taken part.

[94] The casualties may have been greater, for the losses in the

grenadier and light companies cannot be traced. Lieutenant-Colonel

Wemyss’s wound is not mentioned in the casualty returns.

[95] See Appendix 2 (E).

[96] See Map No. 3.

[97] Minto’s ‘Life of Elliot,’ vol. ii. p. 362.

[98] The “proof table” in the muster-roll for Christmas, 1796, shows

that the regiment had only three hundred and eighty-seven officers

and men “present,” while seventy-eight of all ranks were “absent”:

with the corps, either in the mainland of Italy or in Elba, there

were only fourteen officers, while twenty-five were on leave or

employed elsewhere.

[99] The muster-roll of the XVIIIth for Christmas, 1796, was signed

at Elba on April 9, 1797. Among the deaths appears the name of

Lieutenant George Mallet, who died during our occupation of the

island. When the writer of this history visited Elba many years ago,

he noticed on the wall of the garden where Napoleon used to walk

during his exile in 1814-15, tablets to the memory of two or three

British officers. One of these bore the following inscription:--

“Near this place lyeth the remains of Lieutenant George Mallett of

the 18th or Royal Regiment of Ireland who departed this life the 13th

of January 1797 in the 18th year of his age.”

Thanks to the good offices of Mr M. Carmichael, H.M. Consul

at Leghorn, and to the kindness of Lieutenant-General Count

Simminiatelli, commanding the troops in Tuscany, this tablet has been

presented to the regiment, and is now at the depôt at Clonmel.

[100] Pulteney had been known earlier in his career as Murray; he

changed his name late in life. See Appendix 9.

[101] This sudden rush of troops to Gibraltar produced great scarcity

of food. Eggs were sold at a shilling each, while “moderate-sized

turkeys” found eager customers at £3, 10s.

[102] The conquest of Egypt was no new idea to French statesmen. In

the middle of the seventeenth century, while Louis XIV. was revolving

in his mind schemes for the aggrandisement of France, he was urged

strongly, though unsuccessfully, not to seek expansion in Europe, but

to make himself master of Egypt, and by establishing her pre-eminence

in the Mediterranean secure for his country the trade of the Levant

and of the East. See Mahan’s ‘Influence of Sea Power on History,’ pp.

107, 141, 142.

[103] Taken in 1795 from the Dutch, then allies of France.

[104] See Map No. 3.

[105] The expedition of 1799. Dunfermline’s ‘Life of Abercromby.’

[106] See Map No. 3.

[107] The historians of this campaign do not agree about the exact

strength of Abercromby’s army. The figures in the text are summarised

from those given in the Life of Abercromby, written by his grandson,

James, Lord Dunfermline.

[108] Two field officers, 5 captains, 16 subalterns, 5 staff, 32

sergeants, 14 drummers, 449 rank and file.

[109] The following officers appear to have landed in Egypt with the

regiment:--

Lieutenant-Colonel--H. T. Montresor (in command).

Major--T. Probyn.

Captains--W. Morgue, C. J. Dunlop, H. Snooke.

Captain and Lieutenant--G. Jones.

Lieutenants--J. Jenkinson, P. Hay, J. Hoy, W. Conolly, J.

Kennedy, R. Yeale, G. Gorrequer, W. Gunn.

Ensigns--F. Hill, H. Bruley, H. W. Beavan, T. Baylis, ----

Hutton, W. Brand, A. Deane, J. Smith.

Paymaster--R. Irwin.

Adjutant--T. Gregory.

Quartermaster--M. M‘Dermott.

Surgeon--G. B. Waters.

Assistant-Surgeon--W. Maxton.

Major S. Mawby rejoined from sick leave during the campaign.

[110] The 8th, 13th, XVIIIth Royal Irish, and 90th regiments.

[111] See Appendix 2 (F).

[112] If the statements of two of the officers who left accounts of

the campaign are correct, this figure must be too low; Walsh in his

Journal says that 1160 dead Frenchmen were counted on the ground on

the afternoon of the 21st, while another writer states that 1040 of

the enemy were buried after the battle.

[113] See Appendix 9.

[114] British--cavalry, 510; infantry, 4800 (among whom were the

Royal Irish). Turks--cavalry, 600; infantry, 3600; with the combined

force were twenty field-guns.

[115] See Appendix 2 (F).

[116] The following officers arrived with the regiment:--

Majors--R. Campbell (in command) and C. Dunlop.

Captains--W. Loscombe, H. Snook, G. Reeves, J. Graham, E. Walker,

J. E. Inston D. O’Farrall, R. Smyth, T. Murray, C. O’Gorman.*

Lieutenants--R. Huson, F. Hill, J. Janns, J. Stotesbury, G.

Andrews, A. Baker, R. Wild, P. Scott, R. N. King, R. Hutton, W.

Coulson, A. Deane, T. Barflis.

Ensigns--J. Whitley, J. Strang.

Adjutant--T. Gregory.

Quartermaster--J. Atkins.

Surgeon--G. B. Waters.

Assistant-Surgeons--F. Micklen and W. Carver.

* This officer began life as page to the ill-fated Queen Marie

Antoinette.

[117] Sometimes called Haiti.

[118] The officers who went out with the second battalion to Curaçoa

were:--

Lieutenant-Colonel--J. W. Graves (in command).

Captains--J. Hoy, P. Bainbrigge, G. H. Gordon, E. H. Smith, R.

Percival, J. O’Connell.

Lieutenants--J. Aitken, J. S. Owen, J. Cowper, C. Maxwell, R.

Delachnois, W. MacDonald, R. Hopley, C. Carleton, F. Munro, J.

Aicken.

Ensigns--L. Hiatt, H. Kennedy, J. E. P. Langharne, E. Stackpoole,

T. W. Lowes.

Adjutant--J. Forrest.

Quartermaster--D. Cullen.

Paymaster--H. Salvin.

Surgeon--B. Cory.

Assistant-Surgeons--W. Seaman and W. Crofton.

[119] These figures, obtained from returns filed in the Record

Office, are considerably lower than those given in Cannon’s History

of the regiment. The names of the officers who died in the West

Indies will be found in Appendix 3.

[120] These islands, acquired by Britain during the Napoleonic war,

were ceded by her to Greece in 1864.

[121] Nine companies, consisting of 2 field officers, 7 captains, 16

subalterns, 3 staff, 35 sergeants, 11 drummers, 593 privates--667 all

told. The following officers served with the XVIIIth during the whole

or part of the China war:--

Field Officers--Colonel G. Burrell; Lieutenant-Colonels H. W.

Adams and J. Cowper; Majors R. Hammill, N. R. Tomlinson, W. F.

Dillon, J. Grattan, J. J. Sargent, F. Wigston.

Captains--C. J. R. Collinson, W. A. T. Payne, C. A. Edwards, J.

P. Mitford, J. C. Kennedy.

Lieutenants--Sir W. Macgregor, Bart., Sir H. Darell, Bart., A.

Wilson (adjutant), Hon. C. H. Stratford, G. W. Davis, S. Haly, J.

W. Graves, W. A. Gwynne, J. J. Wood, G. Hilliard, A. Murray, F.

Swinburne, T. Martin, H. F. Vavasour, D. Edwardes, S. Bernard, J.

Cockrane, A. W. S. F. Armstrong, J. H. Hewitt, W. P. Cockburn, H.

D. Burrell, C. Woodwright, J. P. Mayo, C. Rogers, W. Venour, E.

Jodrell, G. F. S. Call, C. Dunbar.

Ensigns--P. Simmons, E. W. Sargent, J. Elliot, M. J. Hayman, L.

M. T. Humphreys.

Paymaster--G. J. Call.

Quartermaster--J. Carroll.

Surgeon--D. McKinlay, M.D.

Assistant-Surgeons--C. Cowen, J. Baker, J. Stewart.

Only three of these officers had been on active service. Burrell had

served at the capture of Guadaloupe in 1810 and in the war on the

Canadian frontier in 1814; Grattan had taken part in the suppression

of the rebellion in Canada in 1832; Dillon had been on the staff at

the capture of San Domingo in 1809.

[122] See Map No. 4.

[123] ‘The War in China,’ by D. McPherson, M.D., pp. 21, 22.

[124] See Appendix 2 (G).

[125] Half the troops originally landed at Chusan are said to have

died there.

[126] The Chinese always described their enemies from the western

hemisphere as Barbarians or Foreign Devils.

[127]

COMPOSITION OF THE COLUMNS.

Other

_Right Column._ Officers.ranks.Total.

Major Pratt, 26th { 26th Cameronians 15 294 309

Cameronians { Madras Artillery 1 20 21

{ Madras Sappers and Miners 1 30 31

with one 6-pr., one 5-in. mortar.

_Left Column._

4th (Left) Brigade, { 49th Regiment 28 273 301

Lieut.-Colonel Morris, { 37th Madras Native Infantry 15 215 230

49th Regiment { 1 company Bengal Volunteers 4 112 116

3rd (Artillery) Brigade, { Royal Artillery 2 33 35

Capt. Knowles, R.A. { Madras Artillery 10 231 241

{ Madras Sappers and Miners 4 137 141

with four 12-pr. howitzers, four 9-pr. and two

6-pr. field-guns, three 5-in. mortars, and 152

32-pr. rockets.

2nd (Naval) Brigade, }

Capt Bourchier, R.N. } 27 403 430

1st (Right) Brigade, { XVIIIth Royal Irish 25 495 520

Major-General Burrell { Royal Marines 9 372 381

--- ---- ----

141 2615 2756

[128] This distinction won for Grattan a brevet-majority, and

incidentally caused him to become the hero of a curious adventure.

The ship in which he was returning from Calcutta took fire in the

Straits of Formosa. The boat to which Grattan had been told off

was fortunate enough to reach the shore, where her crew, passing

themselves off as Americans, were claimed by the United States Consul

at Macao, and by him sent on to Hong Kong.

[129] See Appendix 2 (G).

[130] This draft of 2 sergeants and 305 privates joined on June 8,

1841; the next, 152 rank and file, arrived about Christmas of the

same year; the third, in June, 1842, was only 43 strong. The officers

who died were Lieutenants G. W. Davis, S. Haly, and Lieutenant and

Adjutant A. Wilson. The latter was succeeded in his appointment by

Lieutenant J. W. Graves.

[131] ‘Life of Hugh, first Viscount Gough,’ by Rait, vol. i. pp. 209,

210.

[132] H.M. Paddleship _Nemesis_.

[133] ‘Doings in China,’ by Lieutenant A. Murray.

[134] The Chinese, like ourselves, have many orders, indicated by

the colour of a button, which is worn as we wear the insignia of the

C.B., C.M.G., &c.

[135] See Appendix 2 (G).

[136] This account of Cushin’s exploits is taken from papers left by

General Edwards and Lieutenant-Colonel Graves.

[137] Murray’s ‘Doings in China.’

[138] As Gough’s reinforcements had not yet joined, he only had

with him four British regiments and a small number of gunners and

engineers. The XVIIIth were 492 of all ranks.

[139] See Appendix 2 (G).

[140] In the MS. accounts of this engagement, the writers all mention

that the regiment marched off “left in front.” The XVIIIth must have

been very well drilled to be able to do this, for in those days

very few regiments could move otherwise than “right in front.” This

innovation is interesting in connection with the formation of the

Royal Irish in the attack on the Dockyard Creek at Sebastopol on June

18, 1855, described in chapter vii.

[141] How susceptible the Chinese soldiery are to the training of

British officers was proved first by the success of Gordon’s army in

1860 (see chapter xii.), and later, in 1900, by the good conduct of

the Wai-Hai-Wai regiment.

[142] Murray tells us that these white trousers were dug up out of

store in honour of this ceremonial parade. Throughout the war the

XVIIIth wore blue Nankeen trousers.

[143] See Appendix 2 (G). These figures, compiled from documents in

the Record Office, are considerably greater than those given in the

inscription on the memorial. Probably some of the deaths occurred

immediately after peace was made, and were therefore not included

among the losses during the war.

[144] Six officers, 6 sergeants, 6 drummers, and 118 rank and file.

[145] February 21, 1849.

[146] Some of the officers embarked in the _Buckinghamshire_, an

ill-fated ship which was burned at sea on March 3, 1851. They escaped

with their lives, but the regimental plate, and the trophies won in

many campaigns by the regiment, were lost, with the exception of one

piece of plate, a gold snuff-box, saved, according to tradition, by

an officer who, when the fire alarm sounded, snatched it off the mess

table, thrust it into his trousers’ pocket, and brought it safe to

land.

[147] The Royal Navy was represented by 6 steamers, 80 guns, 818

officers and men; the Indian Navy by the same number of steamers, 30

guns, 952 officers and men; there were also 7 steamers belonging to

the uncovenanted Service, carrying 33 guns, with crews amounting in

all to 500. The original land force consisted of 8000 or 9000 troops;

later arrivals raised General Godwin’s command to a nominal strength

of nearly 20,000.

[148] The following officers served in the war:--

Lieutenant-Colonel T. S. Reignolds, C.B. (in command).

” C. J. Coote.

Brevet-Lieut.-Col. J. Grattan, C.B.

Major F. Wigston.

Captain C. A. Edwards.

” A. Gillespie.

” G. F. S. Call.

” A. N. Campbell.

” W. T. Bruce.

” J. J. Wood.

” J. Borrow.

” J. Cormick.

” A. W. S. F. Armstrong.

Lieutenant I. H. Hewitt.

” W. P. Cockburn.

” C. Woodwright.

” R. Doran (adjt.).

” E. W. Sargent (adjt.).

” M. J. Hayman.

” F. D. Lillie.

” W. H. Graves.

” G. Swaby.

” C. F. Kelly.

” J. Swinburn.

” F. H. Suckling.

” H. F. Stephenson.

” G. A. Elliot.

” J. Canavan.

” G. L. W. D. Flamstead.

” H. Piercy.

” H. A. Ward.

” J. G. Wilkinson.

” F. Willington.

” F. Eteson.

Ensign T. R. Gibbons.

” T. H. Smith.

” A. H. Graves.

” G. W. Stacpoole.

” W. J. Hales.

” T. E. Esmonde.

” G. H. Pocklington.

” W. O’B. Taylor.

” J. W. Meurant.

Acting Paymaster Captain A. N. Campbell.

Quartermaster Lieutenant T. Carney.

Surgeon J. Stewart.

Assist.-Surgeon J. H. Dwyer.

” W. K. Chalmers, M.D.

[149] See Map No. 5.

[150] See Appendix 2 (H). Private Fergusson’s name, however, is not

among those who died of wounds.

[151] He was succeeded in the Adjutancy by Lieutenant E. W. Sargent.

[152] See Appendix 2 (H).

[153] General Edwards’ statement.

[154] Field-Marshal Viscount Wolseley’s ‘Story of a Soldier’s Life,’

vol. i. pp. 33-35. See a letter from General C. G. Gordon on the same

subject, p. 185.

[155] According to Colonel Elliot’s diary the actual number of Royal

Irish who embarked at Prome was nine officers and one hundred and

sixty-seven non-commissioned officers and men.

[156] Sir John Cheape’s despatch.

[157] Appendix 2 (H).

[158] See Appendix 2 (H).

[159] See Map No. 6.

[160] See chapter v. p. 120.

[161] The officers were--

Colonel--T. S. Reignolds, C.B. (in command).

Major and Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel--C. A. Edwards.

Majors--J. C. Kennedy and G. F. S. Call.

Captains--J. Cormick, M. J. Hayman, A. W. S. F. Armstrong, J.

Laurie, R. Inglis, H. F. Stephenson, C. F. Kelly, and J. Swinburn.

Lieutenants--J. G. Wilkinson (adjutant), T. E. Esmonde, G. W.

Stacpoole, W. O’B. Taylor, R. H. Jex-Blake, J. R. Blacker, E. H.

Wilton, W. J. Hales, and A. T. Frederick.

Ensigns--J. T. Ring, J. R. Wolseley, C. J. Coote, T. D. Baker, W.

Kemp, F. Fearnley, A. L. Dillon, and C. Hotham.

Quartermaster--M. T. Carney.

Surgeon--W. K. Chalmers, M.D.

Assistant-Surgeons--T. Crawford, ---- Ryatt, ---- Phillip.

Between January and September 1855 the following joined the regiment

in the trenches before Sebastopol:--

Captains--H. A. Ward and G. A. Elliot.

Lieutenants--G. H. Pocklington, J. W. Meurant, J. S. Theobald, R.

J. Adamson, A. Cottee, and M. T. Cunningham.

Ensigns--C. N. Fry and H. Shaw.

Joined after September 1855--

Major--A. N. Campbell.

Captains--E. W. Sargent, J. Borrow, and A. H. Graves.

Lieutenants--J. F. Bryant, R. W. E. Dawson, T. M‘G. M‘Gill, C. G.

D. Annesley, E. Wilford, S. Darvell, E. D. Ricard, W. B. Burke,

R. Bell, and H. Hutchins.

[162] The allied forces at this time consisted of the English,

French, and Turkish troops; the Sardinian contingent of 18,000 men

under General La Marmora did not reach the Crimea till May, 1855.

[163] In February, to 290 all ranks.

[164] Note by the author--This was no improvement on the Peninsula,

where the patients suffering from typhus and dysentery were fed in

the same way.

[165] ‘The Crimea in 1854 and 1894,’ by Field-Marshal Sir Evelyn

Wood, pp. 204 _et seq._

[166] Between November, 1854, and February, 1855, there were 9000

deaths in hospital: at the end of February there were no less than

13,600 officers and men in hospital: and though during that month

large drafts raised our strength on paper to 44,000, only 18,000 were

“present and fit for duty.”

[167] Captain W. Kemp, probably the last surviving officer of the

XVIIIth who served in the Crimea, has supplied the author with much

valuable information. When a subaltern of six months’ standing,

Captain Kemp was appointed acting adjutant of the regiment.

[168] An extract from Hamley’s ‘War in the Crimea,’ p. 208, will show

the inability of the Treasury to realise the needs of the army in the

Crimea. The Land Transport Corps was formed by an able and energetic

officer, Colonel McMurdo, “who had so well used his opportunities

that horses, trained drivers, escorts and vehicles were being rapidly

assembled and organised. All this demanded a great outlay, insomuch

that on one of the Colonel’s many requisitions, the Secretary to the

Treasury, Sir George Trevelyan, had written, ‘Colonel McMurdo must

limit his expenditure.’ When the paper returned to the Colonel with

these words, he wrote below them: ‘When Sir George Trevelyan limits

the war, I will limit my expenditure!’”

[169] The influence of Napoleon III.’s personal ambition on the

conduct of the siege and the effect of the rivalries of his Generals

are well described in Hamley’s ‘Crimea,’ wherein the student may

learn how difficult, if not impossible, it is for the chiefs of two

allied powers, engaged in the same operation of war, to see eye to

eye, even on the most important occasions.

[170] A small rounded hillock, not to be confused with “the Mamelon,”

the outwork to the Malakoff.

[171] Russell’s ‘The War,’ vol. i. pp. 490 _et seq._

[172] According to a tradition in the regiment, the men found the

breakfast-tables laid for the Russians whom they had so rudely

dispossessed, and promptly availed themselves of the hospitality of

their enemies!

[173] The Victoria Cross was instituted in 1856. Before that time the

only way in which a non-commissioned officer or private soldier was

rewarded for conduct meriting higher recognition than a medal for

meritorious conduct in the field was by a dole of money. For officers

there was no decoration to commemorate a deed of remarkable courage.

[174] Eyre’s capture of the cemetery and suburb was officially

included in the attack on the Redan.

[175] See Appendix 2 (I).

[176] Early in 1855 the Government realised that tents were

unsuitable quarters for the besieging army: and wooden huts were sent

off to the Crimea, not of one, but of several sizes and patterns.

This want of uniformity in design caused great confusion, and the

XVIIIth had not received its full complement of huts at the time of

the attack on the Redan.

[177] Since the Russian War no subjects of a foreign power have

been enlisted in a body to serve under the British flag. At the end

of the Crimean War a considerable number of the German legion were

sent at their own request to South Africa as settlers, where they

became useful members of the white population. During the last war

with the Boers, the author met in a Free State town an old German

cobbler, who, after proudly dilating on his services in the Legion,

explained that though he was too old again to shoulder a rifle with

the British, he would be proud to mend their boots!

[178] These numbers, which are taken from official documents in the

Record Office, do not agree completely with those on the Crimean

“Memorial” in St Patrick’s.

[179] One of the drafts had a narrow escape from shipwreck in the Sea

of Marmora. Their transport, the s.s. _Cleopatra_, in the middle of

the night of August 15th was in collision with another steamer, the

_Simla_, which was so badly injured that her captain ran her ashore

to prevent her from sinking in deep water; the _Cleopatra_ was cut

down to the water’s edge, but managed to reach the Golden Horn, where

the troops were at once transhipped and sent on to Balaclava.

[180] See Appendix 4.

[181] From the muster roll of June 25, 1858, it appears that the

officers in India at that date were--

Colonel--C. A. Edwards (in command).

Lieutenant-Colonel--G. F. S. Call.

Majors--J. Borrow, A. N. Campbell, E. W. Sargent.

Captains--C. G. D. Annesley, J. Canavan, G. A. Elliot, W. F.

G. Forster, W. H. Graves, H. M. Havelock, C. F. Kelly, G. H.

Pocklington, J. Swinburn, W. O’B. Taylor, R. H. J. Black, R. P.

Bishopp.

Lieutenants--R. J. Adamson, T. D. Baker, J. R. Blacker, J. F.

Bryant, W. B. Burke, S. Darvell, C. Hotham, W. Kemp (adjutant),

J. T. Ring, H. Shaw, J. S. Theobald, F. Fearnley, E. L. Dillon,

E. A. Noblett, H. Adams, R. H. Daniel, E. Hall, I. Wiley.

Ensigns--J. F. Daubeny, W. T. Le Brunn, T. Watt.

Surgeon--T. Crawford, M. D.

Assistant-Surgeons--F. Ffolliott, R. A. Hyde, C. E. Porteous, M.D.

Quartermaster--T. Carney.

Paymaster--C. E. Preston.

[182] See Appendix 2 (J).

[183] See p. 119.

[184] Drummer Joseph Timmins sounded the first “Fall-in” for the

second battalion. After long service with the Colours, he was

appointed to the permanent staff of the third battalion at Wexford.

He was discharged about 1890, and died a few years later.

[185] Letter of thanks to the regiment from P. B. Le Bin,

Lieutenant-Judge of Alderney, 1st November, 1862.

[186] The following officers left England with the battalion, or

joined during the New Zealand war:--

Lieutenant-Colonel--A. A. Chapman, in command.

Major and Brevet-Colonel--G. J. Carey.

Major--J. H. Rocke.

Captains--Sir H. M. Havelock, V.C. (who later assumed the name of

Havelock-Allan), J. Inman, W. D. Chapman, R. P. Bishopp, E. A.

Anderson, J. T. Ring, T. D. Baker, W. Kemp, F. Fearnley, E. L.

Dillon, E. A. Noblett, H. Shaw, J. F. Daubeny.

Lieutenants--R. W. E. Dawson (adjutant), T. C. Wray, E. Hall, J.

A. J. Briggs, S. T. Corrie, W. F. Thacker, E. A. Marsland, G.

A. Nicolls, C. G. Minnitt, W. T. Croft, J. J. R. Russell, F. P.

Leonard, O. R. Lawson.

Ensigns--J. B. Jackson, C. Dawson, A. J. A. Jackson, J. G. Butts,

B. G. Haines, C. G. Phillips, F. J. S. Pringle, H. D. Bicknell,

W. E. Chapman, H. Jones, D. R. Macqueen, G. B. Jenkins, J. C.

Fife, A. R. H. Swindley, E. C. Milner.

Adjutant--Lieutenant R. W. E. Dawson.

Quartermaster--J. Stainforth.

Surgeon--G. W. Peake, M.D.

Assistant-Surgeon--W. I. Spencer.

Paymaster--C. F. Heatly.

[187] See Map No. 7.

[188] ‘The War in New Zealand,’ by W. Fox, late Colonial Secretary

and native Minister of the Colony, pp. 30-32.

[189] 1st battalion, 12th, and 2nd battalions, 14th and XVIIIth

regiments, and the 40th, 57th, 65th, and 70th regiments, which were

still one-battalion corps. There were detachments of Royal Artillery

and Royal Engineers, a Military Train, a Naval brigade, and various

Colonial corps, including a contingent of friendly natives. The 43rd,

50th, and 68th regiments, and a considerable number of volunteers

enlisted in Australia, reached New Zealand later in the war.

[190] Pember Reeves, ‘The Long White Cloud,’ pp. 48, 49.

[191] Brevet-Colonel Carey, Lieutenant-Colonel Havelock, afterwards

Havelock-Allan, V. C., D.A.Q.M.G., and Captain T. D. Baker, A.M.S.,

were so constantly mentioned in despatches throughout the war that

it is unnecessary to record the fact after each affair in which they

were engaged.

[192] The regimental records of the New Zealand War are far from

complete, for the battalion was constantly broken up into small

detachments, buried in stockades in the depths of the bush. Between

these detachments and headquarters communication was most difficult,

and for weeks, and even months, the various portions of the regiment

knew nothing of each other’s proceedings.

[193] ‘Bush Fighting: The Maori War,’ by Major-General Sir J. E.

Alexander, p. 59.

[194] See Appendix 2 (K).

[195] Native house or hut.

[196] See Appendix 2 (K).

[197] See Appendix 2 (K). It was not until the bush had been cleared

for two hundred yards on each side of the track that waggons could

move through the forest of Hunua with safety.

[198] G. W. Rusden, ‘History of New Zealand,’ vol. ii. p. 45. In

another passage (p. 173) this author considers that the destruction

of this war party signally foiled the Maoris’ scheme of attack on

Cameron’s left and rear.

[199] Captain Kemp and Captain Briggs have supplied the author with

valuable information--the former by sending extracts from his diary,

the latter by recording his reminiscences of the campaign.

[200] The strength on December 1, 1863, of the ten companies of the

second battalion of the XVIIIth was 2 field officers, 9 captains, 20

subalterns, 5 staff, 47 sergeants, 22 drummers, 763 rank and file fit

for duty, and 24 sick, or a total of 892 of all ranks.

[201] Alexander, p. 129.

[202] This column was composed of 728 of all ranks; among them was

a detachment of the Royal Irish--1 captain, 3 subalterns, 1 staff,

5 sergeants, 3 drummers, and 140 rank and file. The smaller columns

were 250 and 100 strong.

[203] Carey’s despatch.

[204] Rusden, vol. ii. p. 205.

[205] Some of the historians of the New Zealand War assert that these

assaults were ordered by General Carey: others hold that they were

unauthorised: the balance of evidence is in favour of the latter

opinion.

[206] Rusden, vol. ii. pp. 207, 208.

[207] Two anecdotes will show how stern was the courage of the Maori

warriors. General Alexander describes how an officer was standing at

the head of the sap, watching his opportunity to enter the _pah_.

The head of a fierce-looking Maori appeared above the parapet, but

the Englishman was a quick shot and the head disappeared. When the

troops got into the works the officer looked for the man he had hit.

The Maori had dropped with a bullet through his brain, but this

death-wound was not his only injury. Some time during the siege his

leg had been broken and roughly bound up with flax and a tent-peg, to

enable him to go on fighting. In the retreat a native for some time

escorted a party of women and children. “As his pursuers approached,”

says Mr Rusden, “he turned and knelt down to take deliberate aim.

Time after time, without firing a shot, he thus arrested the pursuit

while the women fled. At last he himself was shot, and it was found

that his gun was not loaded.”

[208] See Appendix 2 (K).

[209] General Alexander tells an interesting anecdote about the

fighting in the Taranaki district in 1864. In a skirmish the son of

a chief was made a prisoner, badly wounded in the leg. To save his

life the surgeons amputated the limb, and when the young man was fit

to be moved a message was sent to his father that he might take the

lad back to his village. The chief was very grateful for the kindness

his son had received at our hands; he presented the General with a

cartload of potatoes, and assured him that in future he would not

kill any wounded soldiers who fell into his hands, but would only cut

off one of their legs and send the men back to camp!

[210] Fox, pp. 126, 139, 140.

[211] Hence the name “Hau-Haus,” by which these fanatics were

generally known.

[212] The official description of the act of bravery for which

Captain Shaw was awarded the Victoria Cross is as follows: “For his

gallant conduct at the skirmish near Nukumaru in New Zealand, in

proceeding under a heavy fire with four privates of the regiment

who volunteered to accompany him to within thirty yards of the bush

occupied by the rebels, in order to carry off a comrade who was badly

wounded. On the afternoon of that day Captain Shaw was ordered to

occupy a position about half a mile from the camp. He advanced in

skirmishing order, and, when about thirty yards from the bush, he

deemed it prudent to retire to a palisade about sixty yards from

the bush, as two of his party had been wounded. Finding that one of

them was unable to move, he called for volunteers to advance to the

front to carry the man to the rear, and the four privates referred to

accompanied him, under a heavy fire, to the place where the wounded

man was lying, and they succeeded in bringing him to the rear.”

[213] See Appendix 2 (K).

[214] The only event recorded of the stay of the XVIIIth at Patea

is the death of two young officers, Lieutenants Lawson and Jenkins,

who, unable to swim, were carried by the tide out of their depth and

drowned.

[215] The unavowed but well-understood object of this reduction in

the regular forces in New Zealand was to throw upon the colonists the

chief burden and expense of the war, of which the Home Government was

thoroughly weary.

[216] Lieutenant-Colonel Chapman was invalided home in June. As

Brevet-Colonel G. J. Carey was an acting Brigadier-General, Rocke, as

the next senior officer, assumed the command of the battalion.

[217] Not to be confounded with the camp near Auckland.

[218] It was not till 1870 that the last embers of the rebellion were

completely stamped out by the local forces of New Zealand.

[219] See Appendix 4.

[220] See Appendix 2 (K). The rivers in New Zealand took heavy toll

from the Royal Irish, eight of whom were drowned in fording streams.

[221] Three Field-Officers, 8 Captains, 12 Lieutenants, 5 Ensigns,

1 Surgeon, 1 Assistant-Surgeon, 1 Paymaster, 1 Quartermaster, 49

Sergeants, 21 drummers, 759 rank and file.

[222] Governor Sir G. Bowen to Colonial Office, 9th March 1869.

[223] Now “colonies” no longer, but “States” of the Australian

Commonwealth.

[224] Among the other officers mentioned was Lieutenant H. S. F.

Bolton, who enlisted in the army in 1859: obtained his commission in

the West India regiment; was a special service officer in Ashantee,

and finished his career as a major in the Royal Irish regiment. He is

now one of the military Knights of Windsor.

[225] As Lieutenant-Colonel G. F. S. Call had already started on

his homeward voyage, Major E. W. Sargent was in command; the other

officers with him were Captains C. J. Coote, J. F. Bryant, and R.

I. Adamson; Lieutenants J. W. Home, T. B. Meredith, J. F. Mosse,

W. Sherlock, and T. N. R. Burton; Ensigns G. A. Macdonnell, H. B.

Moore, G. C. Irving, T. H. S. Sewell, G. W. N. Rogers; Adjutant W. H.

Herbert; Paymaster R. B. Farwell; Quartermaster M. Hackett; Surgeon

J. H. Lewis; Assistant-Surgeons H. A. Coglan and W. Orr.

[226] See chapter vii.

[227] See Appendix 9.

[228] See Appendix 9.

[229] The following officers of the regiment served in the Afghan

War:--

Lieutenant-Colonel--M. J. R. MacGregor.

Majors--R. I. Adamson and H. Shaw, V.C.

Captains--A. J. A. Jackson, J. G. Butts, J. Blair, H. F. S.

Bolton, W. W. Lawrence, St G. A. Smith, E. Tufnell, and J. W.

Graves.

Lieutenants--S. Phillips, J. B. Forster, J. H. A. Spyer, P. A.

Morshead, H. S. Lye (adjutant till promoted captain), S. S.

Parkyn, C. E. Le Quesne, H. M. Hatchell, Hon. M. H. H. McDonnell,

and P. B. Lindsell.

Second Lieutenants--N. A. Francis (adjutant), R. M. Maxwell, A.

I. Wilson, D. M. Thompson, B. J. C. Doran, E. B. W. J. Fraser, S.

Moore, H. F. Loch, and H. E. Richardson.

Quartermaster--R. Barrett, succeeded by Sergeant-Major W.

Jamieson.

Paymaster--Captain J. Forbes-Mosse.

[230] The names will be found in Appendix 2 (L). A memorial to those

who lost their lives in Afghanistan, in Egypt in 1882, and the Nile

campaign of 1884-85 is in the barrack square of the depôt at Clonmel.

[231] See Appendix 9.

[232] See Appendix 9.

[233] See Map No. 8.

[234] Cromer’s ‘Modern Egypt,’ vol. i. pp. 91, 92.

[235] The figures quoted are all in British currency.

[236] The British Government in 1875 suddenly bought up four

millions’ worth of Suez Canal shares, owned by the Khedive, which he

was about to put upon the market. This stroke of policy made England

a large shareholder in the Canal Company, and therefore gave her an

important position in the commercial management of its affairs.

[237] About 90,000 Europeans, chiefly English and French, carried on

business in Egypt at this time.

[238] Lord Cromer’s ‘Modern Egypt,’ vol. i., gives an excellent

account of the European diplomacy of this period.

[239] A quaint report by an Egyptian officer in charge of a battery

“complained of the very improper conduct of the English fleet in

that, whilst his men were at work on the battery at night, suddenly

a blaze of electric light was thrown upon them, so that what they

were doing could be seen as if it were day--a proceeding which, as

the officer avers, was distinctly discourteous on the part of the

English.”--Maurice, ‘Military History of the Campaign of 1882 in

Egypt.’

[240] Reinforcements of many thousands more were on their way to

Egypt when the collapse of Arabi’s rebellion rendered their presence

at the front unnecessary.

[241] Maurice, p. 41.

[242] Maurice, pp. 25, 26.

[243] The officers who went out to Egypt with the battalion were

Brevet-Colonel C. F. Gregorie (in command); Majors J. M. Toppin and

G. W. N. Rogers; Captains J. H. Daubeney, C. E. Dixon, C. E. G.

Burr, H. S. Lye, C. E. Le Quesne, and H. M. Hatchell; Lieutenants

E. J. Grant, A. G. Chichester, J. H. Chawner, G. H. Symonds

(Adjutant), D. G. Gregorie, A. S. Orr, W. R. B. Doran, A. T. Ward,

H. D. Daly; Quartermaster and Honorary Captain T. Hamilton; Surgeon

J. Prendergast, A.M.D.; Paymaster P. A. Robinson. Attached to the

battalion were Captains C. N. Jones (Connaught Rangers) and H. H.

Edwards (Royal Welsh Fusiliers); Lieutenants G. P. Hatch (Wiltshire

regiment), N. L. Pearse (Derbyshire regiment), H. H. Drummond-Wolff

(Royal Fusiliers), and E. M. Barttelot (Royal Fusiliers).

[244] See Appendix 2 (M).

[245] Otherwise known as the Sweet-water Canal.

[246] The orders directed that the water-bottles should, if possible,

contain cold tea, the beverage which Lord Wolseley constantly

recommended on active service.

[247] It was forbidden to strike matches, so watches could not be

consulted.

[248] This distance is understated; it was probably more than 800

yards.

[249] A delightful story is told of one of the XVIIIth who was asked

on his return home how many of the enemy had fallen. He replied, “I

don’t just know, but I killed devil a one less than five hundred with

my own bayonet!”

[250] The names will be found in Appendix 2 (M). There is a memorial

to those who died in this campaign in the barrack square of the depôt

at Clonmel.

[251] The mosquitos at Alexandria appear to have made a great

impression, not only on the bodies, but also on the imaginations of

the young officers of the Royal Irish. One subaltern stated that

these pests had bitten his foot through the sole of a shooting boot,

while another asserted that the mosquitos were so intelligent and so

strong that three of them used to combine to lift up his mosquito-net

to allow their friends to feast upon his hot Irish blood.

[252] Colvile, ‘History of the Soudan Campaign’ (official), p. 1.

[253] See Map No. 9.

[254] Colonel Stewart had already been to Khartoum, where he was sent

on a tour of inspection soon after the European officers had demanded

large reinforcements to enable them to make head against the Mahdi.

[255] The junior ranks of the British army are so used to receiving

their rations with regularity on active service that they appear to

think the Army Service Corps can feed them as the ravens fed Elijah.

They do not realise the enormous amount of thought and calculation

which have been lavished on the subject for months before the opening

of a campaign. It is not within the scope of a regimental history

to describe in detail the process by which Lord Wolseley succeeded

in feeding his column in a country the principal products of which

are water and sand. Those who wish to study the subject will find

full information in Colvile’s ‘History of the Soudan Campaign,’ and

Butler’s ‘Campaign of the Cataracts.’

[256]

Lieutenant-Colonels--H. Shaw, V.C. (in command), T. C. Wray

(second in command).

Majors--A. W. Simpson, E. Tufnell, C. E. Dixon.

Captains--J. H. A. Spyer, J. B. Forster, H. W. N. Guinness, W. J.

F. Morgan, A. M. Boisragon.

Lieutenants--C. M. Stevens, A. I. Wilson, B. J. C. Doran, S.

Moore (adjutant), K. P. Apthorp, E. F. Hickman, L. C. Koe, and

W. R. B. Doran. Lieutenant H. J. Jones joined at Wadi Halfa on

December 8.

Quartermaster and Honorary Lieutenant--W. Jamieson.

Paymaster and Honorary Major--J. Forbes-Mosse (attached; before

joining the pay department this officer had been in the XVIIIth).

Surgeon--Captain G. B. Hickson, Medical Staff.

[257] Colvile’s ‘History of the Soudan Campaign,’ vol. i. pp. 117-119.

[258] The cataract of Kaiber is termed the Third. It should really be

numbered the Eighth. Butler, ‘Campaign of the Cataracts,’ p. 200.

[259] For the benefit of the civilian reader it must be explained

that “Skipper” is army slang for the officer commanding a company.

[260] Captain Forster’s marching-out state at Sarras showed a total

of ninety-two in his company; his marching-in state at Korti only

seventy-seven of all ranks.

[261] This name is spelt Jakdul in some maps.

[262] The Maconochie ration, so much appreciated during the war of

1899-1902, was not then in use.

[263] See Appendix 2 (N).

[264] Colvile’s ‘History of the Soudan Campaign,’ vol. ii. p. 73.

[265] Marching-out state from Abu Klea, 23rd February 1885:--

---------------------+------+------------+------+-----+------+-----+---+----

| OFFICERS. | OTHER RANKS. |

+------+-----+------+------+-----+------+ Camels.

---------------------+------+-----+------+------+-----+------+-----+---+----

Naval Brigade, | 11 | | 11 | 102 | 2 | 104 | | |

XIXth Hussars, | 1 | | 1 | 13 | 1 | 14 | | |

Light Camel Regiment,| 13 | 1 | 14 | 196 | 6 | 202 | | |

Mounted Infantry } | | | | | | | | |

Camel Regiment, } | 20 | 1 | 21 | 311 | 5 | 316 | | |

Royal Artillery, | 6 | | 6 | 75 | 2 | 77 | | |

Royal Engineers, | 2 | | 2 | 24 | | 24 | | |

Royal Irish Regiment,| 21 | 1 | 22 | 596 | 13 | 609 | | |

Royal Sussex do., | 7 | | 7 | 217 | 7 | 224 | | |

Royal West Kent do., | 1 | | 1 | 21 | | 21 | | |

Commissariat and }| | | | | | | | |

Transport Corps, }| 6 | | 6 | 38 | | 38 | | |

Medical Staff Corps, | 5 | 1 | 6 | 43 | | 43 | | |

Headquarter Staff, | 6 | | 6 | 4 | | 4 | | |

Army Chaplain, | 1 | | 1 | | | | | |

+------+-----+------+------+-----+------+-----+---+----

| 100 | 4 | 104 | 1640 | 36 | 1676 | 1180| 30| 386

---------------------+------+-----+------+------+-----+------+-----+---+----

[266] 25 officers, 3 warrant officers, 33 sergeants, 15 drummers, 891

rank and file.

[267] The following officers of the Royal Irish regiment served in

the Hazara campaign:--

Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel--G. W. N. Rogers.

Major--R. K. Brereton.

Captains--W. J. F. Morgan, F. J. Gavin, A. N. Lysaght,

Brevet-Major--B. J. C. Doran.

Lieutenants--K. P. Apthorp, A. S. Orr, W. R. B. Doran, A. T.

Ward, P. de S. Bass, H. J. Downing, A. B. King, L. C. Koe, J. E.

Cullinan, C. W. Garraway, T. L. Segrave, G. O. R. Wynne, C. W.

Walker, W. Gloster, R. O. Kellett.

Paymaster--Honorary Captain P. A. Robinson.

Quartermaster--Honorary Major T. Hamilton.

[268] The distances are only approximate.

[269] The column marched in the following formation. The

advance-guard of two companies of the Royal Irish was followed in

succession by brigade headquarters, two guns, and three companies

of Native infantry. Then came the headquarters of the column, the

remainder of the Royal Irish, two more guns and some Gatlings, five

companies of native infantry, the regimental reserve ammunition, a

company of native infantry, the Field hospital, and a detachment of

Royal Engineer telegraphists. In rear was the whole of the baggage,

including the seven days’ supply, escorted by four companies of

native infantry.

[270] These are the official figures. In the opinion of some of the

officers who were present they are too high.

[271] As the official account states that eighty-eight dead bodies

were found on the ground over which the swordsmen attempted to

charge, it is clear that the Royal Irish used their weapons to good

purpose.

[272] This trophy, pierced with more than one bullet, hangs in the

Officers’ Mess of the second battalion.

[273] While the regiment was at the front Mr Rudyard Kipling in a

ballad made the immortal Mulvaney predict the result of sending an

Irish corps on a campaign where field canteens were not allowed.

Thanks to the kind permission of Mr Kipling the ballad is reproduced.

“THE WAY AV UT!”

“The Black Mountain Expedition is apparently to be a tetotal

affair.”--_Vide_ ‘Civil and Military Gazette,’ October 5, 1888.

“A charge of Ghazis was met by the Royal Irish, who accounted

for the whole of them.... The Royal Irish then carried the

position.”--‘Pioneer.’

“I met with ould Mulvaney and he tuk me by the hand,

Sez he: ‘Fwhat _kubber_’ from the front, and will the Paythans stand?”

“O Terence, dear, in all Clonmel such things were never seen,

They’ve sent a rigimint to war widout a fiel’ canteen!

“’Tis not a Highland rigimint, for they wud niver care,

Their Corp’rils carry hymn-books an’ they open fire wid prayer--

’Tis not an English rigimint that burns a blue light flame,

’Tis the Eighteenth Royal Irish, man! as thirsty as they’re game!

“An’ Terence bit upon his poipe, an’ shpat behin’ the door--

‘’Tis Bobs,’ sez he, ‘that knows the thrick av making bloody war.

Ye say they go widout their dhrink?” “and that’s the trut,”’ sez I!

“Thin Heaven help the Muddy Khels they call an Akazai!

“I lay wid them in Dublin wanst, an’ we was Oirish tu,

We passed the time av day, an’ thin the belts wint ‘_whirraru_,’

I misremember fwhat occurred, but, followin’ the shtorm,

A ‘Freeman’s Journal’ Supplemint was all my uniform!

“They’re rocks upon parade, but oh! in barricks they are hard--

They’re ragin,’ tearin’ divils whin there’s ructions on the kyard--

An’ onless they’ve changed their bullswools for a baby’s sock, I think

They’d rake all Hell for grandeur--an’ I _know_ they wud for dhrink!

“An’ Bobs has sent them out to war widout a dhrop or dhrain?

’Tis he will put the ‘_jildy_’ in this dissolute campaign.

They’d fight for frolic half the year, but now their liquor’s cut,

The wurrd ’l go: ‘Don’t waste your time! the bay’net and the butt!’

“Six hundher’ stiflin’ throats in front--tu hundher’ lef’ behind

To suk the pickins av the cask whiniver they’ve a mind!

I would _not_ be the Paythan man forninst the ‘_Sungar_’ wall

Whin those six hundher gintlemen projuce the long bradawl!

“They will be dhry--tremenjus dhry--an’ not a dhram to toss--

Divils of Ballydaval, Holy Saints av Holy Cross!

An’ Holy Cross they all will be from Carrick to Clogheen,

Thrapesin’ after naygur-_log_ widout a fiel’ canteen.

“Will they be long among the hills? my troth, they will not so--

They’re cramming down their fightin’ now to have ut done, an’ go--

For Bobs, the Timp’rance Shtrategist, has whipped them on the nail.

’Tis cruel on the Oirish, but--’tis murther on the Kheyl!”

[274] See Appendix 2 (O).

[275] The following officers took part in the Tirah Campaign:--

Lieutenant-Colonel--W. W. Lawrence (in command).

Majors--J. B. Forster, H. S. Lye, F. J. Gavin, E. Lindesay.

Captain and Brevet-Major--B. J. C. Doran (served on the staff

throughout the operations and was mentioned in despatches).

Captains--A. S. Orr, A. B. King, D. H. Davis (adjutant), G. F. R.

Forbes, R. G. S. L. Moriarty, H. N. Kelly.

Lieutenants--J. B. S. Alderson, C. E. Galway, F. L. Fosbery, E.

F. Milner, E. H. E. Daniell, W. H. White, F. M. Watkins, F. S.

Lillie.

2nd Lieutenants--C. de J. Luxmore, T. J. Willans, L. J. Lipsett,

H. W. R. Potter, G. W. P. Haslam, T. C. FitzHugh, M. Furber, J.

G. Lawrence, D. Barton.

Quartermaster and Hon. Lieutenant--J. J. Fox.

Surgeon--Major C. R. Bartlett, R.A.M.S.

The following officers were attached to the battalion:--

Captain--G. L. Hobbs, the Connaught Rangers.

Lieutenants--H. E. Tizard, Royal Munster Fusiliers; B. C. W.

Williams, Yorkshire regiment; A. J. B. Church, the Connaught

Rangers; F. A. D’O. Goddard, Royal Munster Fusiliers; H. R. G.

Deacon and F. J. Byrne, both of the Connaught Rangers; G. A.

Ellis and M. L. Pears, both of the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles).

Second Lieutenant--H. W. Gough, the Connaught Rangers.

[276] During the short time the battalion was at the front no less

than 455 of the Royal Irish fell ill and were admitted into hospital.

[277] See Appendix 9.

[278] See Appendix 9.

[279] For casualties see Appendix 2 (P).

[280] See Appendix 9.

[281] Gazette of July 19, 1898. See chapter xiii. and Appendix 9.

[282] While out with the hounds at Clonmel one of the officers of

the first battalion made a sensational jump, thus described in

the sporting papers: “Mr Vigors, of the Royal Irish Regiment, now

stationed at Clonmel, was riding a cob he had purchased a short time

previously from Mr Burke, and racing at the road fence (a low wall

on the inside, but very treacherous on the roadway, as it had been

cut away 9 feet to level a hill) the cob jumped clean on to the road,

with a fall outside of 11 feet. The horse never fell, but Mr Vigors

fell on the cob’s neck, and slipped off at the far side of the road,

luckily unhurt.”

[283] See page 361.

[284] For the details of the kit and equipment with which the

soldiers sailed for South Africa, see Appendix 6.

[285] See page 365.

[286] The following officers went to the war with the battalion;

followed it to South Africa; served on the staff, or with mounted

infantry. (The ranks are those held at the beginning of the war):--

Lieutenant-Colonel--H. W. N. Guinness (in command).

Major--H. M. Hatchell.

Majors--F. J. Gavin, A. N. Lysaght, K. P. Apthorp.

Captains--A. S. Orr, H. J. Downing (Adjutant), W. Gloster, W. E.

S. Burch, J. B. S. Alderson, G. M. Grogan, F. L. Fosbery, E. F.

Milner, E. H. E. Daniell, R. L. Owens, R. G. L. Crumpe.

Lieutenants--W. H. White, M. H. E. Welch, A. W. Brush, L. L.

Farmer, E. M. Panter-Downes, J. A. M. J. P. Kelly, G. A. Elliot,

T. C. Fitz Hugh, H. T. A. S. Boyce, G. W. P. Haslam.

Second Lieutenants--G. H. Holland, J. L. O. Mansergh, H.

Anderson, W. M. Acton, C. E. Dease, J. L. Cotter, G. A.

O’Callaghan, L. W. M. Lloyd (seconded from 4th battalion), H.

G. Gregorie (from Imperial Light Infantry), Hon. H. R. T. G.

Fitzmaurice-Deane-Morgan (3rd battalion), W. A. Senior (nominated

by the authorities of Public Schools), S. Hutchins (9th battalion

K.R.R.C.), R. B. S. Dunlop (Channel Islands Militia), F. Call,

T. B. Vandaleur (Local Military Forces of Cape of Good Hope), F.

J. R. Hughes (3rd battalion), A. C. S. Fletcher, R. Palmer (3rd

battalion West Riding regiment).

Quartermaster and Honorary Captain--F. P. Reger.

Surgeon--Lieutenant J. Matthews, R.A.M.C. (during the greater

part of the war).

The officers who served extra regimentally were--

_On the Staff_--

Majors--A. G. Chichester, B. J. C. Doran, Brevet-Major W. R. B.

Doran.

_With Mounted Infantry_--

Captains--R. A. Smyth, S. G. French, R. R. Arbuthnot, S. E. St

Leger.

Lieutenants--P. U. Vigors, E. C. Lloyd, S. H. L. Galbraith.

The following officers of the 5th (Irish) Volunteer battalion, King’s

(Liverpool regiment) were attached at various times:--

Captain--T. Warwick Williams.

Lieutenants--J. Goffey, J. H. Grindley, J. L. L. Ferris, W. G.

Lindsey, H. M. Bayer, D. R. Grindley.

[287] One of the shells fell in the tent occupied by the Roman

Catholic chaplain, Father Alexander--happily when he was not at

home! At Bloemfontein he was succeeded by Father Rawlinson, who was

attached to the battalion for many months. The Anglican chaplain was

the Reverend ---- Wright.

[288] Lieutenant E. M. Panter-Downes, Royal Irish, was in charge

of the signallers, and received much praise for his work in the

Colesberg-Arundel operations.

[289] The mounted infantry of the Royal Irish were present at the

relief of Kimberley, and at Cronje’s surrender on February 27.

[290] ‘Official History of the War in South Africa,’ vol. ii. p. 250.

[291]

Other

Officers. ranks.

3rd battalion Royal Irish regiment

(formerly Wexford militia), 2 136

4th ” ” ”

(formerly North Tipperary militia), 1 127

5th ” ” ”

(formerly Kilkenny militia), -- 160

[292] According to the Official History, one part of this detachment

marched 45 miles in 36 hours; the other covered 73 miles in 52 hours.

[293] A large party of the Royal Irish mounted infantry served in

Hamilton’s column.

[294] Official History, vol. iii. p. 105. This part of the Orange

Free State had been the scene of a long series of wars with the

Basutos, whom the original Vortrekers (the pioneers of the Dutch

emigration from Cape Colony) had gradually driven back into the

mountains of Basutoland.

[295] Composition of Clements’ column on June 28, 1900 (from

Clements’ Staff Diary):--

2nd Bedford regiment 854

2nd Worcester ” 846

1st Royal Irish ” 892

2nd Wiltshire ” 908

8th Battery R.F.A. 136

2 guns 5-in. 6th Co. R.G.A. 63

1 section ammunition column 17

1 section 38th Co. R.E. 32

2nd Brabant’s Horse and 2 companies Yeomanry 696

16th Imperial Yeomanry 237

Malta M.I. 133

Royal Scots M.I. 67

12th brigade Field Hospital 38

12th brigade Bearer Company 33

12th brigade Supply Depôt 9

----

4961

[296] See Appendix 2 (Q).

[297] See Appendix 2 (Q).

[298] So called because the officers and men belonged to regiments

stationed at Malta at the beginning of the war.

[299] The correspondence was as follows:--

“I, Ralph Clements, Major-General, having full power from

Field-Marshal Lord Roberts, G.C.B., &c., Commander-in-Chief of Her

Britannic Majesty’s forces now in South Africa, hereby demand the

surrender of the town of Bethlehem to me by 10 A.M. this day, Friday,

July 6, 1900--failing which I shall bombard the town.

“The inhabitants are hereby informed that should the town surrender,

and subsequent to its surrender any firing takes place at the troops

under my command when occupying it, the town will be shelled and

burned.

“R. CLEMENTS.”

“To well-respected Sir R. CLEMENTS.

“RESPECTED SIR,--In connection with the missive you have addressed

dated 6th July to the village of Bethlehem I have, your Excellency,

herewith to state that no reply can be given.

“The responsibility will rest on you for the blood of innocent women

and children in case you should bombard the town.--I have the honour

to be, Sir, &c.,

“C. R. DE WET,

“_Chief Commandant_.”

[300] The greater part of the Royal Irish mounted infantry were in

this column, see p. 367.

[301] See Appendix 2 (Q).

[302] When the author visited Slabbert’s Nek in 1907 he found the

grave well kept, and marked by handsome cross of white marble. The

graves at Bethlehem were also in good order.

[303] See Appendix 2 (Q).

[304] Lance-Corporal Doyle was promoted to be corporal on July 26,

1900.

[305] See Appendix 2 (Q).

[306] In South Africa every estate in the country is called a farm,

but this is a misnomer, for no Boer landowner (at least before the

war) thought of working his estate as a farm in the European sense of

the word. He was indifferent to agriculture, and devoted his land to

the raising of stock. By Australians the Boer farms would be called

runs; by Canadians from the north-west of the Dominion they would be

described as ranches.

[307] Official History, vol. iii. p. 380.

[308] In Hamilton’s Force were soldiers from all parts of the British

Empire. The Divisional troops were Brabant’s Horse (South African

volunteers); two batteries of Royal Field artillery; four guns of

a Canadian volunteer battery; the “Elswick battery,” manned by

artisans, volunteers from the north of England; two 5-in. guns, and

a section of pom-poms.

Mahon’s Force was composed of a battery of Royal Horse artillery;

a section of pom-poms; the Imperial Light Horse (South African

volunteers); Lumsden’s Horse (volunteers from India, largely

recruited from planters in Behar); a battalion of Imperial Yeomanry

(volunteers from the Old Country); a squadron of Hussars, and mounted

volunteers from Queensland and New Zealand.

Infantry brigades--Smith-Dorrien’s: the first battalions of the Royal

Scots, Royal Irish, and Gordon Highlanders, and the mounted infantry

of the City Imperial volunteers; Cunningham’s: 1st battalion King’s

Own Scottish Borderers, 2nd battalion Royal Berkshire regiment, 1st

battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.

The Engineers, Ammunition and Supply Park, Hospitals, and Bearer

Companies were all supplied by the regular army.

The strength of Smith-Dorrien’s Infantry units was as follows:--

Fit for duty.

------------------------- Sick at

At On headquarters or Total.

headquarters. detachment. on detachment.

1st Royal Scots 1206 61 121 1388

1st Royal Irish 868 239 199 1306

1st Gordon Highlanders 741 236 153 1130

[309] See Appendix 2 (Q).

[310] See Appendix 2 (Q).

[311] The experience gained after some months of escorting trains is

epitomised in the instructions issued by the Chief of the General

Staff, which will be found in Appendix 7.

[312] Barry had served with the 2nd battalion in the campaigns on the

north-west frontier of India.

[313] The machine gun was recaptured a few months later by the Royal

Irish, and was presented to the regiment by the Secretary of State

for War in 1904.

[314] For his conduct on this occasion No. 4216 Corporal H. N. Forbes

was awarded the medal for Distinguished Conduct in the Field.

[315] See Appendix 2 (Q).

[316] See Appendix 2 (Q).

[317] According to regimental tradition the information reached

Captain White, Royal Irish, the local Intelligence officer, in a

curious way. Viljoen had in his service a Kaffir, whose father was

employed by us at Lydenburg. The younger Kaffir overheard Viljoen

mention in conversation that he meant to return to Pilgrim’s Rest

on a certain day; and obtaining leave of absence, passed the news

on to his father, who in his turn reported it to the Intelligence

department. It seems almost incredible that Viljoen should have been

guilty of such an indiscretion as to talk of his intended movements

within earshot of a Kaffir: but if the account is accurate, it

affords another illustration of the truth of the saying--“What is

rumoured in your camp to-day will be known to-morrow by the enemy.”

[318] Afterwards Sergeant-Major, 2nd battalion, Royal Irish regiment.

[319] See Appendix 2 (Q).

[320] See Appendix 2 (Q). Captain St Leger’s exploit would

have remained unknown had not Corporal Parker written to his

own commanding officer to report the matter. Unfortunately the

non-commissioned officer’s letter did not reach the War Office until

the list of rewards for South Africa was finally closed.

[321] As early as May, 1900, the author ascertained from Boer

prisoners that in the commandos it was commonly said that if the

burghers were driven out of Pretoria they would break back through

the east of the Free State and burst into Cape Colony by the drifts

over the Orange river near Aliwal North.

[322] This man’s death was a sad one: he fell down a well, 45 feet

deep, at Needspan, and his body was not discovered for several days.

An officer writes of him: “he was one of the best soldiers and the

cheeriest of men whom I have ever met; and his behaviour both in camp

and field was excellent.”

[323] See Appendix 2 (Q).

[324] See Appendix 2 (Q).

[325] See Appendix 2 (Q).

[326] See Appendix 2 (Q).

[327] See Appendix 2 (Q).

[328] See Appendix 2 (Q).

[329] The names of most of the militia officers who were seconded

in these battalions for service in South Africa have been mentioned

already; among the others who did duty either with mounted infantry

or with other infantry corps at the seat of war were: Captains G. H.

P. Colley, J. O. Johnson, A. J. Fox, and Lieutenant E. H. B. Thompson.

[330] _I.e._, identity card.

[331] The Memorials are enumerated, and described in the order that

they appear in the frontispiece, commencing on the left.

[332] These are grouped round the South African Window.

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Transcriber’s note:

All changes noted in the CORRIGENDA at the front of the book have

been applied to the etext.

Some Footnotes having the same text on a page were merged in the

original book, for example ‘1 & 2 See Appendix 9’. These have been

separated in the etext to two distinct Footnotes.

Curly braces { and } present in some Tables in the original book

have sometimes been removed in the etext Tables.

The name Villeroi is sometimes spelled Villeroy; this dual spelling

has been left unchanged.

Six occurrences of the italicised _moral_ have been replaced by

_morale_.

The seven references to ‘Curaçoa’ refer to the Caribbean island

of Curaçao.

Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been

corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within

the text and consultation of external sources.

Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text,

and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained: for example,

great-coat, greatcoat; breast-works, breastworks; in-shore, inshore;

embarcation; withes; drily.

Pg 9: ‘Ensign ... Smith’ replaced by ‘Ensign ---- Smith’ (unknown

name).

Pg 13: ‘Captain ... Butler’ replaced by ‘Captain ---- Butler’.

Pg 22: ‘, ... Blunt’ replaced by ‘, ---- Blunt’.

Pg 64: ‘William Crosby.’ replaced by ‘William Cosby.’.

Pg 198: ‘waterpoof sheet’ replaced by ‘waterproof sheet’.

Pg 296: ‘Colonel ....,’ replaced by ‘Colonel ----,’.

Pg 296: “Colonel ....’s” replaced by “Colonel ----’s”.

Pg 296: ‘Colonel .... turned’ replaced by ‘Colonel ---- turned’.

Pg 343: ‘under the disspiriting’ replaced by ‘under the dispiriting’.

Pg 352: ‘Colesburg campaign’ replaced by ‘Colesberg campaign’.

Pg 393: ‘P. Hugnes,’ replaced by ‘P. Hughes,’.

Pg 395: ‘affair at Nukumaro’ replaced by ‘affair at Nukumaru’.

Pg 438: ‘is at page 252’ replaced by ‘is at page 231’.

INDEX:

Four references to ‘Abercrombie’ replaced by ‘Abercromby’.

‘Khangeim’ replaced by ‘Khangheim’.

‘Slaap Krantz’ replaced by ‘Slaap Kranz’.

Footnote 18: ‘must^r Gen^{ll}’ is short for ‘Muster Master General’.

Footnote 26: ‘See p. 177’ replaced by ‘See p. 77’.

Footnote 33: the Table was very wide and has been split into two

parts. The left-side column (Corps loss) has been duplicated for the

second part.

Footnote 38: the Total ‘2324’ in the Table and spelled out in the

text on page 39, is incorrect and should be ‘2234’, but it has not

been changed. The Table was very wide and has been split into two

parts. The three left-side columns (Corps, No. of Battalions, No.

of Squadrons) have been duplicated for the second part. Two notations

beginning ‘(Seven squadrons ...)’ and ‘(of the Empire ...)’ were

inside the Table in the original book. These have been marked with

* and ** and placed under the Table as Notes.

Footnote 279: ‘see Appendix 1 (P)’ replaced by ‘see Appendix 2 (P)’.

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