SIEGE AND CAPTURE OF KOTAH
The strongly fortified city of Kotah on the River Chumbul had been for many months held by a formidable insurgent force. Major-General Roberts, of the Honourable East India Company’s Army, commanding in Rajpootana, now moved against it from Nusseerabad, with two strong brigades; the 1st marching on the 10th March. With this brigade were three companies of the regiment, under the command of Captain (Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel) Heatly.
The 2nd Brigade, commanded by Colonel Parke, of the 72nd Highlanders, to which the head-quarters of the regiment (strength 11 officers and 300 men) was attached, moved from Nusseerabad on the 11th March. The whole force comprised H.M.’s 8th Hussars, a company of Royal Engineers, the 72nd, 83rd, and 95th Regiments, a numerous force of native cavalry and infantry, a siege-train of 18 heavy guns and mortars, also 3 troops and batteries of horse and foot artillery of the Hon. Company’s service—about 4500 of all arms. The force encamped on the 22nd March before the city, on the opposite bank of the River Chumbul; the regiment furnished the usual working parties, trench and battery guards, outlying picquets, etc., until the 25th of the month, when, the capture by the enemy of the Rajah’s palace, which was held by our troops, being imminent, 200 men of the detachment of H.M.’s 83rd Regiment, with the 1st Brigade, were directed to cross the river, with other troops, for its protection; this detachment sustained a loss of 3 men killed and 5 non-commissioned officers and men wounded in the following three days, in which some vigorous assaults by the enemy were repulsed with heavy loss in killed and wounded. On the 30th the city was taken, having been entered by three columns of assault, the centre column being led by the head-quarters division of the 83rd Regiment, under Lieutenant-Colonel Steele; the detachment of the 83rd with the 1st Brigade, commanded by Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Heatly, was in reserve, and entered the city later in the day. The regiment sustained a loss of 1 man killed and 6 wounded. The enemy abandoned their defences and retired towards Gwalior, having sustained a considerable loss in the siege and assault; about 80 guns were taken in the city, with large magazines of ammunition and supplies.
Having remained encamped before Kotah till the 18th April, the besieging force was broken up, and the regiment marched on return to Nusseerabad, arriving there on the 29th. The usual relief of detachment of one company in the fort of Ajmere took place on the 3rd May.
Enfield rifles were issued to the regiment at this time; the waist-belt, with small pouch in front, had been supplied to the regiment in supersession of the old cross-belts about one year previously.
Lieutenant-Colonel Kelsall having retired on full pay, Major Steele succeeded to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment on the 13th April, 1858.
On the 23rd May, the two companies which had been on detachment at Neemuch, under command of Major Austen, since December, rejoined the head-quarters of the regiment.
About the middle of June, the decisive successes of the division of the army commanded by Major-General H. Rose having caused the rebel army to evacuate the Gwalior territory, a very numerous hostile force, estimated at 10,000 men, crossed the River Chumbul, and entered the territory of the Rajah of Jeypoor, who had always displayed friendly feelings towards the British Government. A considerable force, about 2500 strong, of which the head-quarters and 600 of the 83rd composed a part, was placed under orders for field service in consequence, and marched from Nusseerabad on the 28th June, under command of Major-General Roberts. On the 3rd July this force arrived within one march of the city of Jeypoor, which was in imminent danger from the advance of the rebel army. On the approach of General Roberts’s division, the enemy, changing their direction, moved southwards and attacked the capital of the Rajah of Tonk, which was occupied and partially plundered by them. The Rajah retired to his fortified palace, and offered all the resistance in his power to their assaults. A portion of his troops, however, proved faithless, and joined the enemy, giving up to them the guns which had been in their charge.
General Roberts’s advance by forced marches caused the rebels to retire from before Tonk, and a considerable portion of the British force was detached in pursuit in a south-easterly direction; about 900 men, including the 83rd Regiment, remaining under the personal command of the general. The weather was at this time extremely hot, and the exposure consequent on the urgent duties in which the force was engaged proved fatal to many of the soldiers composing it. Six men of the 83rd died from sunstroke between the 7th and 10th July.
The enemy, pressed upon by the detached column, changed their line of march towards the west, and General Roberts, still moving by forced marches, succeeded in coming up with them late on the evening of the 8th August. They were seen formed in great force near the village of Sanganeer—the number was estimated at 8000 men, two-thirds of whom were cavalry. The regiment at once advanced to the attack under a heavy fire from the artillery of the enemy, which, however, being directed too high, did no execution, while many of the rebels were killed and wounded by the rifles of the 83rd. Darkness, however, coming on, enabled the enemy to retire and withdraw the whole of their guns. The force had marched this day thirty miles, and bivouacked on the spot, having far outmarched their tents and baggage. Waiting one day to allow the column which had been detached from Tonk to join him, General Roberts’s force moved on the 10th August in pursuit of the enemy. This brigade had been reinforced by the junction of one troop of Bombay Horse Artillery, a squadron of the 8th Royal Irish Hussars, a squadron of Native Light Cavalry, 4 companies 72nd Highlanders, and a Sepoy Regiment of the Bombay army, as well as by a strong body of Belooch horsemen.
A very persevering pursuit now took place on the track of the rebel army, the outpost picquets of which were surprised and cut to pieces on more than one occasion. At about 7 a.m. on the 14th August, the enemy were seen moving in heavy masses, of horse and foot, on the further bank of the Bunnass River, their line of movement being covered by their artillery, which was posted in a battery on the crest of a rising ground close to the village of Kottaria; only waiting to form and load, the force at once advanced towards the river, the 83rd Regiment leading in a double column of sub-divisions from its centre. The enemy’s guns opened with round and grape, and were instantly vigorously engaged by the British Horse Artillery, and the fire on both sides was for a time extremely heavy. The 83rd, forming line, crossed the river, meeting but little resistance, and the enemy, abandoning their guns, retired with precipitation. The cavalry charged amongst the retreating artillerymen and infantry, and the pursuit was continued for some miles, very great numbers of the rebels falling under their sabres, while the fugitives seeking shelter in the groves and copse-wood were destroyed by our infantry. In the evening the force returned and encamped near Kottaria, having sustained only the small loss of 22 killed and wounded, while fully 1000 of the rebels were left dead on the field, and 4 guns, with their ammunition, and many elephants and camels laden with stores, were captured. The enemy’s flight did not cease till they had crossed the Chumbul and entirely evacuated Rajpootana. The force returned northwards by easy marches, and the regiment reoccupied its former quarters in the camp at Nusseerabad on the 29th of August.
On the 4th October the first half-yearly inspection of the regiment which had taken place since April, 1857, was made by Major-General Roberts, commanding Rajpootana Field Force, who was pleased to issue a highly complimentary order to the regiment on this occasion. Lieutenant-Colonel Steele was commanding and Lieutenant J. N. Colthurst was adjutant.
1858.
By order of her Majesty, published 18th August, 1858, a medal and clasp was granted to all the troops engaged in field service in the repression of the mutinies in India, and lists of those so entitled in the regiment were forwarded on the 3rd and 4th November, 1858.
By order of the Governor-General in Council, dated 29th September, 1858, a donation of six months’ full batta was granted to all officers and men who had served with the Rajpootana Field Force.
On October 26th, 1858, Colonel Botet Trydell was promoted to major-general, and Major C. W. Austen succeeded to the lieutenant-colonelcy in the regiment.
Major-General Trydell served in the 83rd for a period of fifty-four years. He was present with the 1st Battalion at the taking of the Cape of Good Hope in 1806, including the battle of Blueberg; and also in Ceylon through the Kandyan rebellion.
Lieutenant-Colonel Steele having proceeded to England early in the month of December, 1858, the command of the regiment devolved on Lieutenant-Colonel Austen, the second lieutenant-colonel. On the 17th of this month, a field force was formed at Nusseerabad under the personal command of Brigadier Honner, commanding Rajpootana Field Force, consisting of the head-quarters of the 83rd Regiment, 500 strong, under command of Lieutenant-Colonel C. Austen, with a troop and a half-battery of artillery, a considerable force of cavalry of the 8th Hussars and 1st Lancers, and the 12th Regiment N. I. The force marched to Sanganeer on the Neemuch road, arriving there on the 21st. On the 23rd the head-quarters of the 83rd, 300 strong, with the 12th Regiment N. I., and half a battery, were ordered back to Nusseerabad, arriving there on the 27th. Three companies under Lieutenant-Colonel Heatly, consisting of 200 men, remained with the brigade under Brigadier Honner.
1859.
Early in the month of January, 1859, intelligence having been received that the rebel force was again moving on Tonk, with the intention of reaching Jeypoor, the head-quarters of the 83rd, with 300 men, part of the 12th Regiment N. I., and half a battery of artillery, the whole under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Holmes, proceeded on the 8th in an easterly direction to Diggee, to cover the road from Tonk to Jeypoor. Having received information that Tonk was threatened, the force marched through Tonk to Bamboor on the 11th; here it was discovered that the rebels had passed by, and the force accordingly marched the following day (twenty-two miles) in a north-east route to Jullai. Finding that the rebels had only left that morning, and were encamped at Chatsoo, twenty-two miles distant, the force marched again that night, arriving at Chatsoo before daybreak. The rebels had just left when the brigade of Brigadier Showers—chiefly cavalry—having come up, continued the pursuit. Colonel Holmes’s force then marched on Jeypoor, arriving there on the 17th and leaving on the 18th, and after four days’ severe marching through deep sand, came up with the rebel force at “Seekur” at 4 a.m., having during the last thirty hours accomplished a march of fifty-two miles. The moon was just setting when our troops surprised the rebel camp, and owing to the darkness and precipitation with which the rebels fled, together with our deficiency of cavalry, our troops were unable to inflict any serious loss on them. About 80 were killed, 50 taken prisoners, and many horses and camels. The force halted at Seekur for one day, having during the previous thirteen days marched a distance of 292 miles. After this, the force proceeded in combination with other columns to harass the rebels, and marched over a great part of Jeypoor and Joudpoor, arriving finally on the 18th February at Suget on the road between Nusseerabad and Deesa. Information having been here received that the rebels had escaped through a pass in the hills, the force, after a halt of four days, returned to Nusseerabad, arriving there on the 1st March.
The field force, under Brigadier Honner, to which were attached 200 men of the 83rd Regiment, under Lieutenant-Colonel Heatly, also returned on the 1st March, having been in the field since the 14th December, during which period they traversed 995 miles of country; and on one occasion, in attempting to surprise the rebels, they marched forty-four miles in twenty-four hours. In the pursuit of the rebels, terminating in the affair of Kosana, Brigadier Honner’s force marched 130 miles, over tracts of deep, heavy land, in four days. The 83rd detachment in this last pursuit, consisting of 9 sergeants, 4 corporals, 1 drummer, and 119 privates, under command of Lieutenant-Colonel Heatly, with Captain Marsh, Lieutenants Onslow and Huyshe, were mounted on camels. Their services during the operations terminating in the defeat of the rebels at “Koshana” are honourably mentioned in Brigadier Honner’s despatch.
In the summer of 1859 a letter was addressed by the Earl of Howth, Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Dublin, to General Sir Frederick Stovin, G.C.B. and K.C.M.G., the colonel of the regiment, which is subjoined:—
“Howth Castle, July 28th, 1859.
“Sir,—An application has been made to me by Lieutenant-Colonel Steele, of the 83rd Regiment, in my capacity of the Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Dublin, to give the assistance of my sanction and co-operation in forwarding an application from him as commanding officer of the 83rd Regiment, that the distinctive appellation of the ‘County of Dublin’ Regiment may be conferred upon that corps. Lieutenant-Colonel Steele has suggested that I should communicate with you as the colonel of the 83rd on the subject of his wishes, and I accordingly beg to do so. Lieutenant-Colonel Steele accompanied his application to me by an extract from the records of the 83rd Regiment, and it most plainly appears that the regiment was raised in the county of Dublin in the year 1793, under a letter of service granted to its first lieutenant-colonel commandant, William Fitch, who was killed at the head of the regiment in the Maroon war, in the island of Jamaica, three years afterwards. It further appears from its records that the 83rd Regiment has seen much active foreign service, and has been distinguished by its discipline and valour in many parts of the world, and recently in the suppression of the mutiny in India, where it is at present serving.
“Under these circumstances, and having regard to the fact that the regiment was originally raised exclusively in the county of Dublin, I have much pleasure in expressing my concurrence in the application made by Lieutenant-Colonel Steele on the part of his regiment. I consider that it would be creditable to the county of Dublin, that a regiment raised in it, and of whose services it may be very justly proud, should be distinguished by its name, and I give this letter to Lieutenant-Colonel Steele for conveyance to you, in the hope that it may aid in inducing his Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief to recommend to her Majesty that the title of the ‘County of Dublin’ Regiment may be conferred on the 83rd.
“I have the honour, etc.,
“(Signed) Howth.
“To General Sir F. Stovin, G.C.B. and K.C.M.G.,
Colonel 83rd Regiment.”
This application was brought to the notice of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, Commander-in-Chief of the Army, by Sir F. Stovin, and the title of the “County of Dublin” Regiment was conferred on the 83rd.
The following letter from the Adjutant-General reached the regiment at Nusseerabad on the 19th December, 1859, just sixty-seven years after the regiment had been raised in the county of Dublin:—
“Horse Guards, S.W., October 29th, 1859.
“Sir,—By desire of his Royal Highness the General Commanding-in-Chief, I have the honour to acquaint you that her Majesty has been graciously pleased to authorize the 83rd Regiment, which was raised principally from recruits obtained in Ireland in 1793, and embodied in Dublin in that year, being designated the 83rd (County of Dublin) Regiment.
“I have the honour, etc.,
“(Signed) W. F. Forster, D.A.-Gen.”
1860.
The regiment remained at Nusseerabad and Ajmere till the end of February, 1860, when they were ordered to proceed to Belgaum, in the southern Mahratta country; and the head-quarters division, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Austen, marched on the 17th February, reached Cambay, distant 390 miles, on the 30th March, and proceeded by sea to Vingorla, on the Malabar coast, whence they marched to Belgaum, arriving there on the 16th April.
The left wing moved on the 30th March, under command of Captain Baumgartner, and had a trying march in very hot weather, during which they lost an officer (Lieutenant Colebrook) and several men from cholera. They proceeded from Cambay by sea to Wagotna, and marched to Kolapore, where they remained on detachment under command of Captain E. B. Cooke.
A highly complimentary farewell order was issued to the regiment on the occasion of its ceasing to belong to the Rajpootana Field Force, by Brigadier Honner, C.B., commanding in Malwa and Rajpootana. Lieutenant-Colonel Austen was then in command of the regiment.
The half-yearly inspection of the regiment was made by Brigadier Adams, C.B., commanding the southern Mahratta division, on the 7th November, 1860, at Belgaum.
The wing of the regiment which had been on detachment at Kolapore since May, 1860, joined head-quarters on November 27th, 1860.
1861.
The medals awarded by her Majesty to the officers and men who had been engaged with the enemy during the Indian Mutiny were received from the Adjutant-General, Horse Guards, on 2nd February, 1861, and on 11th February they were presented to those entitled to them on a parade of the garrison of Belgaum by Miss Straith, the step-daughter of the brigadier commanding.
The officers of the regiment who were presented with the Indian war medal were:—
- Lieut.-Col. Steele, C.B.
- Lieut.-Col. Heatly.
- Captain Pigott.
- Lieut.-Col. C. W. Austen.
- Captain Wright.
- Captain Wakefield.
- Captain Minhear.
- Captain Meurant.
- Captain Baumgartner.
- Captain Gandy.
- Captain Gore.
- Captain Molony.
- Adjutant J. N. Colthurst.
- Lieutenant Browne.
- Lieutenant Wardell.
- Lieutenant Onslow.
- Lieutenant Karslake.
- Lieutenant Healy.
- Lieutenant Coote.
- Lieutenant Beazley.
- Lieutenant Huyshe.
- Lieutenant Pennefather.
- Lieutenant Anderson.
- Paymaster Swinburne.
- Assistant-Surgeon Touch.
- Assistant-Surgeon W. Sharp.
- Quartermaster Hayes.
- Captain Sprot.
Lieutenant-Colonel Steele, who had commanded the regiment in several engagements in the early part of the Mutiny, had been decorated by her Majesty with the insignia of a Companion of the Bath for his services.
The half-yearly inspection of the regiment was made by Brigadier Adams, C.B., commanding the southern Mahratta division on April 25th, 1861.
A frock of scarlet serge, and a wicker helmet covered with grey linen, with a turban round it, were ordered to be adopted by the regiments in India, in supersession of the shell jacket and chaco hitherto worn, and the regiment was provided with them accordingly about this time.
Intimation was received in August that the regiment was to embark for England in the approaching cold season. On the 18th November, his Excellency Lieutenant-General Sir William Mansfield, K.C.B., Commander-in-Chief of the Bombay presidency, having visited Belgaum on a tour of inspection, went through the barracks of the regiment, and afterwards reviewed the 83rd on a brigade field-day, at the conclusion of which he was pleased to make a speech to the regiment, in which he expressed his approbation of the state of the corps in the strongest terms; his Excellency used the words that “he never in the course of his service had seen a regiment in higher order, and that he should not fail to report accordingly to his Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief.”
Immediately afterwards the regiment was permitted by general order to give volunteers for further service in India to every regiment serving there, and a number of non-commissioned officers and men, as per margin,[19] having volunteered to other regiments, were struck off the strength of the 83rd from the 19th December, 1861.
1862.
The regiment commenced its march to the coast on the 22nd January, 1862, and reached Vingorla on the 29th of that month, where they were encamped till the 5th of February, on which day the regiment, under command of Lieutenant-Colonel Steele, C.B., embarked in the hired transport King Lear; the ship sailed the same evening for Plymouth.
During the service of the regiment in India of 12½ years, it lost by deaths 18 officers, 30 sergeants, 417 rank and file; and 51 sergeants and 629 rank and file were invalided.
The King Lear anchored in Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope, on the morning of the 18th March, and having obtained supplies sailed again for Gravesend, where the regiment disembarked on the 21st May, 1862, and proceeded to Dover on the same day by rail, and was quartered in the citadel.
The regiment was soon afterwards inspected by Brigadier-General Garvock, commanding at Dover, and by Major-General Hon. A. A. Dalzell, commanding the division.
Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Steele, C.B., sold out of the regiment on the 29th July, after a service of twenty-eight years in the 83rd. He died in London on the 6th August, only eight days after he had been gazetted out.
Major A. Barnard Hankey succeeded to the lieutenant-colonelcy of the regiment.
In August the regiment was reviewed by Lieutenant-General Viscount Melville, K.C.B., who commanded it for several years in Canada and England.
Several drafts of recruits, both officers and men, joined head-quarters from the depôt at Chatham, and brought up the strength of the regiment, which had been reduced to a mere skeleton by the volunteering at Belgaum, and the discharge of many men on its arrival at Dover.
In October the regiment was inspected on the Castle Hill parade ground by H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge, Commander-in-Chief, who, in a complimentary speech, expressed his approval of its appearance, and of the rapid manner in which the regiment had been brought forward since its arrival in England.
In October a large number of the men were sent up to see the Great Exhibition of 1862 by the officers.
1863.
The 83rd remained quartered at Dover until the 23rd April, when it marched to the camp at Shorncliffe, where it relieved the 69th Regiment, which had been sent to the Cape, and was quartered in C lines.
In May the regiment was inspected by Brigadier-General Sutton, Lieutenant-Colonel Hankey commanding.
PART VII
SERVICES OF THE REGIMENT, 1864–1907
Lieutenant Colthurst was promoted vice Baumgartner transferred to Bombay Staff Corps, and Lieutenant Blunt appointed adjutant vice Colthurst.
1864.
In April the regiment under Lieutenant-Colonel Hankey moved to Aldershot, and was quartered in the North Camp.
1865.
The depôt of the regiment joined the regiment from Chatham, making the strength up to twelve companies.
In April the head-quarters, seven companies, moved to Sheffield, and the remaining five companies to Weedon.
In May two companies were sent to Bradford, in June one company to York; the latter returned to head-quarters in September, and the former in October.
In June and July detachments of the regiment were called upon to aid the civil power during riots in connection with the elections at Nottingham, Grantham, Lincoln, and Rotherham.
In October two companies were detached for duty at Tynemouth.
1866.
In January the regiment embarked at Liverpool for Dublin, and was consequently distributed as under:—
| Head-quarters | Curragh. |
| Three companies | Armagh. |
| One company | Monaghan. |
| Two companies | Sligo. |
| Two „ | Boyle. |
In May the establishment was reduced to ten companies. Various changes in the stations of the detachments took place during the year, but at the end of the year the whole regiment moved to Richmond Barracks, Dublin.
On 27th December the regiment was armed with breech-loading converted Enfield rifles, Snider pattern.
1867.
The depôt companies moved in March to Colchester, and in April the regiment embarked at Kingstown, and was conveyed by the troopship Himalaya to Gibraltar, where it relieved the 86th Regiment in the Casemate Barracks.
Lieutenant Tollemache died during April of this year.
On 9th May the regiment received the new colours, the presentation being made by the Hon. Lady Airey.
1868.
Lieutenant Cooke Collis was appointed adjutant vice Blunt promoted.
1869.
Captain Luke O’Connor died at Glasgow.
1870.
On 11th March the regiment, under Colonel A. B. Hankey, embarked on the troopship Tamar and proceeded to Alexandria, marched to Suez, and embarked on the troopship Euphrates on 25th March. Arriving at Bombay on the 8th April, the regiment proceeded to Poona and was quartered in Wanourie Barracks.
In April, Ensign W. De Hoghton died at St. Remo.
In June the establishment was altered to eight companies.
1871.
Captain R. H. James died at Poona in April.
In November three companies proceeded on detachment to Bombay, two to Sattara, and one to Asserghur.
On the 19th November, Colonel A. B. Hankey retired on half-pay, and was succeeded by Lieutenant-Colonel J. S. Brown.
1872.
On the 11th November the whole regiment was assembled at Bombay, to provide guards of honour to Lord Northbrooke, the Viceroy, and for a viceregal durbar to invest the Begum of Bhopal with the “Star of India,” and proceeded on detachment again on completion of these duties.
The depôt companies, which had apparently now left Colchester, and were stationed at Chatham, moved to Newry.
1873.
1874.
The whole regiment was assembled at Chinchivad to take part in manœuvres, after which it left in December by rail to Ahmedabad, and leaving one company on detachment there, marched to Deesa, arriving there on 15th January. Companies were sent for change of air to Mount Aboo.
The “Glengarry” cap was taken into wear on 14th December, in place of one of the “Kilmarnock” pattern.
1875.
Lieutenant G. Cleaveland died at Mount Aboo.
The depôt companies moved to Fermoy, and were attached to the 86th Regiment.
Lieutenant G. Beresford shot himself at Deesa.
Two companies proceeded to Baroda on detachment in October, at which place the regiment found guards of honour on the 18th and 23rd November for the arrival and departure of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales.
1876.
Lieutenant A. H. Oakeley died at Deesa on 10th October.
In December one company from Deesa and the three composing the detachments at Ahmedabad and Baroda marched to Porebundur and embarked on the I.G.S. Dalhousie for Karachi; and then with the 50th Regiment were sent, on account of smallpox, into camp at Jemadar Ha Laudi.
1877.
The head-quarters of the regiment marched from Deesa to Mandavi, and arriving at this place (twenty-three marches) on 10th January, 1877, proceeded on the Dalhousie to Karachi, where they were joined by the companies from camp.
In February two companies were sent on detachment to Hyderabad.
The depôt companies, now at the Curragh, moved to Aldershot.
1878.
On 11th November telegraphic instructions were received at Karachi for the regiment to be in readiness for field-service in Upper Sind.
1879.
On 12th December, invalids, women, and children were sent, under Lieutenant Bell, viâ Bombay to Ahmednagar, and on 21st December the head-quarters (five companies), under Colonel T. S. Brown, proceeded on service to Sukkur, where on 5th January, 1879, they were joined by the three companies from Hyderabad, and on 30th January by a detachment from home. Of this draft 83 men came from the linked battalion (86th Foot).
The strength at Sukkur was then—20 officers, 41 sergeants, 15 drummers, and 779 men.
The regiment was encamped about 1½ miles south of Sukkur on the bank of the Indus.
The regiment left Sukkur, by detachments, between 20th February and 5th March, and returned by rail to Karachi, and was encamped on the Maidan.
On 13th March the regiment, under Colonel Brown, embarked on the I.G.S.’s Tenasserim and Czarewitch, and proceeded to Vingorla, where the party from Ahmednagar joined it, and marched by easy marches to Belgaum. One company was quartered in the fort and the remainder in barracks.
On 29th September, Colonel Brown was appointed to the Brigade Staff to command Sind District, and was succeeded in the command by Lieutenant-Colonel E. Meurant.
1880.
In February, two companies were sent on detachment to Sattara.
In September, as the regiment was about to proceed to England, volunteers to the number of 82 rank and file were transferred to other corps.
The detachment from Sattara returned to head-quarters in December.
1881.
Instructions had been received in November that the regiment would proceed to England in H.M.S. Jumna on 25th January, 1881, but on 3rd January of that year, a telegram was received ordering the regiment to Natal on field service owing to the outbreak of hostilities with the Boers.
The regiment left Belgaum on 7th January, marched to Vingorla, and on the 15th embarked on H.M.S. Crocodile (on which were also the Gordon Highlanders) for Durban; 46 invalids with the women and children proceeded to Bombay en route to England.
On 30th January the regiment, consisting of 20 officers, 574 rank and file, landed at Durban, and proceeded by rail to standing camp at Fillie Fontein; there it only remained for two weeks and then marched to Pietermaritzburg, thence to the base of operations, Newcastle, where it arrived on 9th March—a march rendered extremely difficult owing to heavy rains.
During March, April, and May the regiment was variously encamped at Signal Hill, Bennett’s Drift, and elsewhere, and employed wood-cutting, coal-mining, etc.
On 1st July, the following changes took effect (General Order No. 41 of 1881):—
The regiment (83rd Foot) became the 1st Battalion Royal Irish Rifles.
The regiment (86th Foot) became the 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Rifles.
The Royal North Down Militia became the 3rd Battalion Royal Irish Rifles.
The Antrim Militia became the 4th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles.
The Royal South Down Militia became the 5th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles.
And by General Order No. 70 of 1881:—
The Louth Militia became the 6th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles.
The No. 83 was assigned to the Regimental District.
The uniform was changed to “green with light green facings,” and the following badges and devices were added:—
“The Sphinx,” “The Harp and Crown.”
Motto—“Quis Separabit.”
Distinctions—“Egypt,” “India,” “Bourbon.”
In November, hostilities came to an end, and the force about Newcastle was broken up.
The regiment marched from Bennett’s Drift on 7th November, arrived at Pietermaritzburg on the 19th, and proceeded by train to Durban, arriving on 21st November.
On 23rd November it embarked on H.M.S. Tamar for England.
1882.
On 3rd January the Tamar arrived at Portsmouth. The regiment disembarked next day and proceeded by rail to Dover, consisting of 15 officers and 489 rank and file.
On 14th March, H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge inspected the regiment.
On 29th June, rifle uniform was taken into wear.
In August, owing to war in Egypt, the First Class Reserve was called up, but demobilized again in October.
In September permission was received (General Order No. 252 of 1882) for the regiment to “bear Cape of Good Hope 1806,” instead of “Cape of Good Hope” on their appointments.
1883.
The battalion remained at Dover.
1884.
A detachment, under Captain H. H. Jackson, proceeded to Halifax, N.S., to join the 2nd Battalion.
On 13th August, the battalion, under Colonel Meurant, proceeded in H.M.S. Assistance to Guernsey, sending four companies to Alderney.
On 5th October, Colonel Meurant was placed on half-pay, and was succeeded in the command by Lieutenant-Colonel F. Karslake.
1885.
A draft, under Lieutenants Welman and O’Leary, proceeded to Halifax, N.S., to join the 2nd Battalion.
On 15th December, the battalion moved from Guernsey and Alderney to Gosport.
1886.
The battalion remained at Gosport.
1887.
In February, Colonel Karslake was succeeded by Colonel C. J. Burnett from the East Yorkshire Regiment.
On 7th July, the battalion proceeded to Aldershot to take part on 9th July in the Jubilee Review, held on the completion of the fiftieth year of reign of H.M. Queen Victoria. Strength present—19 officers and 617 rank and file, and was brigaded with 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade and 2nd Battalion King’s Royal Rifles.
The battalion returned to Gosport on 12th July.
On 14th December, the battalion moved to Ireland and was stationed at Mullingar, with a detachment at Sligo.
1888–9.
The battalion remained at Mullingar.
1890.
Colonel Burnett having been appointed A.A. General at Aldershot, Lieutenant-Colonel H. D. Cutbill, from half-pay, succeeded to the command.
In July, the battalion moved to the Curragh for drills, and in August to “New Barracks,” Fermoy, with a detachment of one company at Fort Carlisle, Queenstown.
1891.
A rifle busby was sanctioned and taken into wear on Christmas Day.
1892.
Captain Curzon was appointed adjutant vice Wilkinson.
1893.
The battalion moved from Fermoy to Newry on 19th June, sending a detachment in October to Drogheda.
1894.
A field-service cap was taken into use in place of the Glengarry, which had been worn since 1874.
On 4th June, Major R. J. Knox was promoted lieutenant-colonel, and succeeded to the command vice Cutbill, whose four years of command had terminated.
On 16th October, the battalion moved to Brighton. Strength—20 officers and 784 rank and file, sending two companies as a detachment to Chichester.
1895.
The regiment was armed with Lee-Enfield rifles, Mark II.
1896.
Lieutenant O. C. Baker was appointed adjutant on 1st January, vice Captain Curzon, whose tenure expired.
On 27th April, Lieutenant King-Harman with 1 colour-sergeant, 1 sergeant, and 25 men, proceeded to South Africa as part of an Irish company of mounted infantry for service in Matabeleland.
On 21st September, the battalion, numbering 16 officers, 586 rank and file, moved by rail to Aldershot, and was quartered in Ramillies’ Barracks.
On 3rd November, Lieutenant-Colonel C. Haggard succeeded to the command vice Lieutenant-Colonel R. J. Knox.
1897.
On 9th January, Lieutenant-General H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught commanding Aldershot District inspected the battalion. Captain O’Leary received and was permitted to wear the 4th Class Order of the Osmanieh, for services in the Dongola expedition.
On 24th April, the battalion embarked at Southampton on the transport Dunera for South Africa, and having disembarked at Durban on 24th May—strength 20 officers, 593 rank and file, 37 women, and 51 children—proceeded by rail to Ladysmith.
On 25th May the detachment under Lieutenant King-Harman rejoined head-quarters. This detachment had been employed on service for thirteen months with head-quarters at Fort Salisbury, and had had 1 man wounded. It received the thanks of the G.O.C. Natal and Zululand for “their soldierly qualities and good behaviour,” and subsequently received a medal for service in Rhodesia.
On 27th September, the battalion was put into khaki clothing.
1898.
On 10th August, a Maxim machine gun was issued to the battalion.
1899.
On 24th March, the battalion left Ladysmith for Durban, where it embarked on R.I.M.S. Clive for Calcutta, and arriving on 15th April, it proceeded to Dum Dum.
On 18th September, the head-quarters moved to Fort William, Calcutta.
War with the Boers in South Africa having broken out, Captain Fox-Strangways and Lieutenant Eckford were sent there for service on 18th September, and on 20th September, 1 sergeant and 14 men also went as trained transport drivers.
1900.
On 1st January, Lieutenant Macnamara succeeded to the adjutancy vice Baker, whose tenure expired.
On 1st February, Captain Noblett and 1 sergeant were attached to Lumsden’s Horse, a volunteer Mounted Infantry Corps, and proceeded to South Africa.
On 28th October, Lieutenant-Colonel A. T. Swaine succeeded to the command vice Haggard.
On 18th December, Lieutenant G. Forbes died from enteric fever.
1901.
Captain Noblett and 1 sergeant returned to duty from South Africa. This officer was mentioned in despatches.
The battalion remained at Calcutta.
1902.
On 3rd February, the battalion moved to Fyzabad.
On 14th February, 4 sergeants, 6 corporals, and 139 privates left from Bombay to join the 2nd Battalion on service in South Africa.
On 10th March, Lieutenant Low was killed in action in South Africa.
On 14th March, Major F. J. Tobin, who had joined as second-in-command, was decorated on parade with the Distinguished Service Order for service in South Africa.
On 18th November, the battalion went to Delhi and took part in the great Durbar held for the proclamation of H.M. King Edward VII as Emperor of India, and the following officers, warrant officers, N.C.O.’s, and riflemen received the coronation medal given for this occasion:—
- Lieut.-Col. Swaine.
- Major Tobin, D.S.O.
- Lieut. Dunn.
- Sgt.-Major Foster.
- Bd.-Major Williams.
- Colour Sergt. Cowden.
- Colour Sergt. Elphick.
- Corporal Verdon.
- Rifleman Heron.
Subsequently it took part in manœuvres near Delhi, and returned to Fyzabad on 21st January, 1903.
1903.
On 20th August, Sergeant Bingham went on service to Somaliland.
Sergeant-Major Foster was promoted Quartermaster on 9th November.
1904.
On 1st January, Captain H. R. Charley succeeded Captain Macnamara as adjutant.
On 20th May, a machine-gun detachment of 1 sergeant and 6 men under Lieutenant Bowen-Colthurst proceeded to Thibet with the mission under Brigadier-General (afterwards Sir) R. Macdonald, C.B., and subsequently received a medal for this service.
On 28th October, Colonel Swaine completed his tenure of command and was succeeded by Lieutenant-Colonel J. S. Brown.
1905.
On 15th December the battalion left Fyzabad and marched to Meerut, 351 miles, arriving on 1st January. En route two companies were detached for duty at Delhi.
On 30th November the battalion left by train for Rawal Pindi and took part in manœuvres and review on the occasion of the visit of T.R.H.’s the Prince and Princess of Wales.
During 1905–7 the battalion remained at Meerut, having a detachment at Delhi, and (during the hot seasons) at Chakrata and Landour.
1906.
Lieutenant Robinson died at Meerut.
1907.
In January the battalion went to Agra and took part in a review held in honour of a visit to India of H.M. the Ameer of Afghanistan.
On 6th March, Captain Charley’s tenure of the adjutancy expired and Lieutenant H. R. Goodman was appointed.
The following is a List of all Officers Killed and Wounded in the Regiment since it was raised in 1793.
| Killed. | |
| Colonel William Fitch | Maroon War. |
| Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon | Talavera. |
| „ Collins | Salamanca. |
| Major Widrington | Vittoria. |
| Brevet Major Hon. Powys | Talavera. |
| Captain Lee | Maroon War. |
| „ Fry | Badajos. |
| „ Samuel Read | Jeerun, India. |
| Lieutenant Montgomery | Talavera. |
| „ Dahman | Do. |
| „ Flood | Do. |
| „ Ferris | Fuentes d’Onor. |
| „ Lindsay | Vittoria. |
| „ Bloxham | Do. |
| „ Johnson | Canada. |
| „ Low | South Africa. |
| Ensign Hackett | Peninsula. |
| Wounded. | |
| Lieutenant-Colonel Collins | Albuera. |
| „ Carr | Orthes. |
| Major Blaquiere | Do. |
| Captain Venables | Vittoria. |
| „ Brunt | Maroon War. |
| „ Summerfield | Talavera. |
| „ Reynolds | Do. |
| „ Elliott | Orthes. |
| „ Venables | Do. |
| Lieutenant Abel | Talavera. |
| „ Johnstone | Do. |
| „ Nicholson | Do. |
| „ Pine | Do. |
| „ Boggie | Do. |
| „ Baldwin | Do. |
| „ Ferris | Do. |
| „ Colthurst | Busaco. |
| „ Vereker | Fuentes d’Onor. |
| „ Matthews | Ciudad Rodrigo. |
| „ Vereker | Do. |
| „ Broomfield | Badajos. |
| „ O’Neill | Do. |
| „ Bowles | Do. |
| „ Lane | Do. |
| „ Vavasour | Do. |
| „ Baldwin | Do. |
| „ Gascoigne | Salamanca. |
| „ Smith | Vittoria. |
| „ Baldwin | Do. |
| „ Barry | Do. |
| „ Watson | Nivelle. |
| „ Barry | Do. |
| „ Wyatt | Do. |
| „ Baldwin | Orthes. |
| „ Watson | Do. |
| „ Lane | Do. |
| „ Hingstone | Vic Bigorre. |
| „ Lane | Do. |
| Lieut. and Adj. Swinburne | Orthes. |
| Adjutant Brahan | Talavera. |
| Lieut. and Adj. J. Swinburne | Do. |
| Ensign Nugent | Orthes. |
| „ Burgess | Nivelle. |
| „ A. Tulloch | Talavera. |
| „ Barry | Do. |
| „ Carey | Do. |
| „ Irwin | Do. |
| Assistant-Surgeon Miles | Nimbharia. |
| Total. | ||
| Killed. | Wounded. | |
| Lieutenant-Colonels | 3 | 2 |
| Majors | 2 | 1 |
| Captains | 3 | 6 |
| Lieutenants | 7 | 31 |
| Ensigns | 1 | 7 |
| Surgeons | 0 | 1 |
| 16 | 48 | |
| Grand Total. | ||
| Killed. | Wounded. | |
| Officers | 16 | 48 |
| Sergeants and rank and file | 279 | 810 |
| 295 | 858 | |
List of Officers who have served in the 83rd Regiment, compiled from the “Officers Records,” preserved in the Regimental Orderly Room.
| Colonels Commanding. | Remarks. |
| William Fitch | 1793: Colonel Commandant. |
| James Balfour | 1795: Major-General. |
| John Hodgson | 1823: Major-General. |
| Hastings Fraser, C.B. | 1835: Major-General. |
| Sir Fred. Stovin, O.C.B, K.C.M.G. | 1848: Lieutenant-General |
| E. P. Buckley | 1865: General. Died 29th May, 1873. |
| W. G. Brown | 1873: General. Died 27th Nov., 1883. |
| W. H. Bradford | Lieutenant-General. |
| Colonels or Lieutenant- Colonels Commanding. | |
| William Fitch | Killed in the Maroon War. |
| William Sleigh | |
| Thomas Gibson | |
| Sir Edward Baynes | |
| William Godley | |
| John Byne Skerritt | |
| Joseph Baird | |
| William Hutchinson | |
| Alexander Gordon | Killed at Talavera. |
| Richard Collins | Killed at Salamanca. |
| Jacob Blunt | |
| John Potter Hamilton | |
| Sir Henry William Carr | |
| Charles Cother | Retired, 1829. |
| —— Bunbury | |
| Hon. H. Dundas, C.B. | Retired on half-pay, 1842. |
| B. Trydell | Brevet Colonel, promoted to Major-General, 1856. |
| W. H. Law | Retired on full pay, as Major-General, 1856. |
| J. Kelsall | Retired on full pay, as Colonel, 1858. |
| Edward Steele, C.B. | Retired July, 1862. Died in London, 6th August, 1862. |
| Charles W. Austen | Exchanged to 14th Regiment. |
| A. Barnard Hankey | Retired 2nd August, 1871. |
| T. S. Brown | To Brigade Staff 28th February, 1880. |
| E. Meurant | Retired 5th October, 1884. |
| F. Karslake | Retired 12th February, 1887. |
| C. J. Burnett | To Staff 4th June, 1890. |
| H. D. Cutbill | Retired 4th June, 1894. |
| R. J. Knox | Retired 28th October, 1896. |
| C. Haggard | Retired 28th October, 1900. |
| A. T. Swaine | Retired 28th October, 1904. |
| J. S. Brown | Now commanding. |
| Lieutenant-Colonels. | |
| S. Flower | Retired 5th October, 1888. |
| C. G. Gore | Retired 10th January, 1883. |
| R. O. De Montmorency | To 2 R.I.R. 10th January, 1883. |
| Majors. | |
| T. Summerfield | Died at Limerick, 1834. |
| Peter Crofton | Retired. |
| Joseph Swinburne | Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, retired as Colonel, 1853. Died, 1860. |
| Edward Townsend | Died of cholera at Kurrachee, 1851. |
| Henry F. Ainslie | Retired as Lieut.-Col. on full pay, 1855. |
| Henry Lloyd | Died of cholera at Cambay, 1854. |
| John Heatley | Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel; exchanged to 69th Regiment. |
| James F. Murray | Exchanged to 97th Regiment, 1862. |
| Edward B. Cooke | Retired, 1862. |
| Henry De R. Pigott | Exchanged to 19th Regiment, 1863. |
| Thomas Venables | Robert Bates |
| J. S. Wakefield | Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel; retired 7th August, 1878. |
| F. A. Wright | Retired 18th January, 1882. |
| E. A. Butler | Retired 18th April, 1885. |
| J. P. B. Forster | Retired 16th September, 1868. |
| G. G. Beazley | Retired 12th March, 1881. |
| C. J. Wyndham | Transferred to 2 R.I.R. 18th Sept., 1888. |
| B. H. Metcalfe | Retired 31st December, 1887. |
| H. H. Stuart | To 2 R.I.R., 1889. |
| W. Cooke Collis | Promoted half-pay Lieutenant-Colonel, and retired 4th May, 1892. |
| F. S. F. Stokes | Transferred to 2 R.I.R., 1st August, 1890. |
| J. J. Meynell | Retired 2nd March, 1893. |
| H. A. Eager | Transferred to 2 R.I.R., December, 1895. |
| W. Ayde | To Staff, 25th March, 1898. |
| E. Allen | Exchanged to 2 R.I.R, 29th April, 1899. |
| F. J. Tobin | Promoted into 2 R.I.R., 28th July, 1904. |
| W. J. McWhinnie | Retired 21st September, 1906. |
| F. E. P. Curzon | Appointed second-in-command 2 R.I.R., 13th July, 1905. |
| W. E. O’Leary | |
| H. M. Cliff | Retired 17th October, 1902. |
| K. Beresford | |
| F. J. H. Bell | |
| C. E. R. Harvey | |
| G. B. Laurie | Exchanged to 2 R.I.R. |
| A. V. Weir | |
| O. C. Baker | |
| Captains. | |
| Henry Caulfield | Removed to 58th Foot, 1833. |
| Francis Johnston | Retired, 1834. |
| Aretas S. Young | Exchanged to 63rd Regiment, 1835. |
| John Richardson | Retired, 1840. |
| Robert Colquohoun | Died in London, 1841. |
| John Harrison | Half-pay, 1839. |
| Robert Kelly | Sold out, 1839. |
| J. H. Anstruther | Sold out, 1839. |
| George Grey | Sold out, 1840. |
| John Rayson | Sold out, 1841. |
| Denis McC. Stubbeman | Sold out, 1845. |
| John Emslie | Sold out, 1844. |
| Edward D’Alton | Half-pay. |
| Thomas St. Aubyn | Died at Putney, 1846. |
| Benjamin H. Brown | Retired, 1847. |
| Duncan Campbell | Exchanged to 90th Regiment, 1848. |
| William Garston | Half-pay, 1849. |
| D. R. De Rinzy | Half-pay, 1849; died of cholera same year. |
| Hon. William Gage | Died at Poona, 1849. |
| D. W. P. Labalmondiere | Half-pay, 1850. |
| S. H. F. Cary | Exchanged to 31st Regiment, 1850. |
| David Anderson | Exchanged to 22nd Regiment. |
| Frederick Woodgate | Retired, 1848. |
| Thomas Spring | Exchanged to 35th Regiment, 1851. |
| Samuel B. Lamb | Exchanged to 10th Regiment, 1851. |
| Thomas Adams | Exchanged to 78th Regiment, 1854. |
| Frederick George Moore | Half-pay, 1855. |
| Thomas M. Keogh | Retired, 1856. |
| William Mills Molony | Exchanged to 22nd Regiment. |
| Samuel Read | Killed in action at Jeerun, 1857. |
| Robert Colville Jones | Died at Ahmedabad, 1857. |
| William Nott | Died near Birmingham, 1858. |
| Herbert Stanley Cooper | Died at Nusseerabad, 1858. |
| Hon. E. G. W. Forester | Half-pay, 1858. |
| Robert H. P. Crawford | Exchanged to 90th Regiment; died in Crimea. |
| John Sharman Molony | Removed to Staff—Falkland Islands. |
| Richard R. Wyvill | Retired, 1860. |
| Thomas Parker Wright | Staff officer of pensioners. |
| F. H. D. Marsh | Exchanged to 89th Regiment. |
| Henry Gandy | Retired, 1860. |
| Retired J. Sweeney | Half-pay. |
| T. Mowbray Baumgartner | Transferred to Bombay Staff Corps, 1861. |
| James Verling Ellis | Exchanged to Ceylon Rifles, 1862. |
| William Minhear | Retired, 1863. |
| F. Pemberton Campbell | Exchanged to 14th Hussars, 1863. |
| Frederick Dickenson | Retired, 1863. |
| Edward William Bray | Brevet major. |
| John Sprot | |
| Edward Meurant | |
| Julian Wakefield | |
| Chas. C. Gore | |
| James F. Sweeney | |
| Geo. G. Beazley | |
| Geo. L. Huyshe | |
| William H. Ivimy | |
| Lawrence Mackenzie | |
| G. F. Stehelin | Retired 6th November, 1868. |
| J. K. S. Henderson | Retired 9th April, 1890. |
| L. E. O’Connor | Died 10th January, 1869. |
| G. P. Fawkes | Retired 29th June, 1870. |
| P. C. Browne | Exchanged to 23rd Foot 2nd May, 1869. |
| J. F. Wyse | |
| W. C. Strickland | Retired 28th October, 1871. |
| C. L. Smith | Retired 30th April, 1873. |
| G. E. E. Blunt | Retired 5th January, 1870. |
| F. H. A. D. Roebuck | Exchanged to 46th Foot 20th July, 1870. |
| E. G. Johnson | Retired 28th May, 1870. |
| R. H. James | Died at Poona 4th April, 1871. |
| G. N. Stevenson | Exchanged to 91st Foot 31st Oct., 1871. |
| G. W. Cockburn | Retired 30th September, 1870. |
| G. E. S. Cartwright | Retired 10th February, 1877. |
| C. J. Shorburn | Retired 5th November, 1884. |
| W. Stewart | Retired 9th June, 1877. |
| T. F. Gibbs | Retired 19th October, 1878. |
| H. C. Bond | Died 27th March, 1882. |
| C. T. Davenport | To Army Pay Dept. 26th August, 1881. |
| J. A. R. Bell | To Army Pay Dept. 12th April, 1881. |
| J. W. H. Anson | Superseded 19th July, 1882. |
| W. B. Marling | Resigned 16th January, 1884. |
| E. C. L. Walter | Died at Alderney 4th May, 1885. |
| R. Taylor | Retired 11th July, 1884. |
| R. S. Graves | To Army Pay Dept. 9th December, 1885. |
| Hon. F. L. Colborne | Brevet Major to Staff, April, 1885. |
| M. E. Mulchinock | Resigned 17th August, 1887. |
| C. G. Harris | Retired 10th August, 1888. |
| L. T. V. Wilkinson | Retired 20th February, 1895. |
| A. W. Raymond | To 2 R.I.R. 1st February, 1888. |
| W. H. Dunlop | To 2 R.I.R. 20th May, 1892. |
| H. L. Welman | To Militia, Adjutant 20th Nov., 1893. |
| G. O. Callaghan Westrapp | Retired 20th February, 1889. |
| J. E. Hodges | To Army Pay Department 1st July, 1893. |
| W. G. Lillingston | To half-pay 12th July, 1896. |
| R. A. D. Rowley | Died 19th November, 1898. |
| G. W. W. D’Arcy Evans | To 20th Hussars 10th June, 1895. |
| P. M. H. Carew | Retired 3rd July, 1897. |
| T. S. Fox-Strangways | To Staff 22nd October, 1899 (retired). |
| A. F. Ryan | Resigned 24th August, 1898. |
| H. F. R. Despard | Retired 15th August, 1902. |
| W. E. O. C. Blunt | To Army Pay Department 29th April, 1908. |
| T. Carson | To Adjutant 5 R.I.R. 22nd February, 1900 (retired). |
| A. J. B. Addison | To Adjutant, Artists’ Vols. (retired). |
| B. H. M. Fox | To A.S.C. 15th October, 1900. |
| P. G. W. Eckford | Adjutant, Vols. 14th November, 1905. |
| H. G. Breman | To half-pay 8th May, 1902 (retired). |
| D. W. Silwell | Brevet Major. Exchanged to 2 R.I.R. 10th October, 1903. |
| L. H. Noblett | Brevet Major. Promoted to 2 R.I.R., 1907. |
| H. R. Charley | To 2 R.I.R. 6th March, 1907. |
| L. C. Sprague | To 2 R.I.R. |
| C. C. Macnamara | |
| J. H. Alston | |
| B. Allgood | |
| E. G. Dunn | |
| E. H. Saunders, D.S.O. | To Sr. T. Corps 24th November, 1905. |
| R. H. S. Dashwood | Retired 21st December, 1907. |
| C. H. Dixon | To 2 R.I.R. |
| L. G. B. Rodney | |
| E. C. Monro | |
| J. C. Bowen-Colthurst | |
| Lieutenants. | |
| Edward De Visme | Retired, 1831. |
| Henry S. G. Bowles | Died at Ballinrobe, 1832. |
| George Blakeney | Retired, 1835. |
| John J. E. Hamilton | Retired, 1837. |
| W. S. Johnson | Killed in action at Prescott, 1838. |
| Hanway Howard | Retired, 1837. |
| W. S. Ducie | Retired, 1838. |
| C. T. Egerton | Retired, 1839. |
| Roger Coghlan | Died in Dublin, 1834. |
| William J. Nunn | Half-pay. |
| James Goodrich | Retired, 1839. |
| Hon. R. H. Clifford | Killed from his horse at Limerick, 1833. |
| T. Taubman James | Retired. |
| Francis W. Bowles | Exchanged to 94th, 1837. |
| Wenman Wynniatt | Drowned at London, Canada, 1841. |
| James Clerk | Exchanged to 9th Light Dragoons. |
| James Foster | Exchanged to 1st Dragoon Guards. |
| William Blackburne | To 91st Regiment. |
| Thomas Stewart Lane | Died at Castlecomer, 1848. |
| Walter Hamilton | Retired, 1845. |
| Francis J. Hext | Retired, 1845. |
| John W. Crowe | Retired 1849. |
| John William Wellington | Exchanged to 4th Light Dragoons, 1847. |
| Sir Richard Gethin, Bart. | Retired, 1846. |
| James Sadler Naylor | Exchanged to 8th Hussars, 1846. |
| John T. Downman | Retired, 1849. |
| W. Sandford Wills | Exchanged to 5th Dragoon Guards. |
| Lord Alfred S. Churchill | Retired, 1848. |
| H. P. Villiers Villiers | Retired, 1855. |
| W. C. Sheills | Retired, 1852. |
| Chas. Peregrine Teesdale | Promoted to 55th Regiment, 1855. |
| S. W. F. M. Wilson | Do. |
| John Meade | Promoted to 30th Regiment, 1856. |
| John Norris McKelvey | Died at Deesa, 1856. |
| Braithwaite Chamley | Exchanged to 17th Lancers, 1858. |
| Thomas Rowland | Exchanged to 1st Regiment, 1853. |
| Usher W. Alcock | Retired, 1855. |
| Marmaduke N. Richardson | Retired, 1853. |
| William Fitzroy | Promoted into 63rd Regiment, 1855. |
| John W. Huskisson | Transferred to 56th Regiment, 1855. |
| Stephen W. Metge | Died at sea, 1856. |
| J. R. A. Colebrook | Died at Mysana, 1860. |
| G. W. H. Wardell | Retired, 1861. |
| Guildford M. Onslow | Retired, 1861. |
| John Healey | Exchanged to 66th Regiment, 1862. |
| Edwin Thomas | Retired, 1862. |
| R. Kenneth Gibb | Exchanged to 1st West India Regiment, 1863. |
| H. G. Davies | Exchanged to 96th Regiment, 1863. |
| James E. Brymer | Drowned at Hythe, 1863. |
| William K. Bookey | Retired, 1863. |
| George Dunlevie | Half-pay, 1857. |
| Alfred Holt | Promoted into 81st Regiment, 1855. |
| Thomas G. Coote | |
| Peter C. Browne | |
| Nicholas Pennefather | |
| Frederick Karslake | |
| W. Forbes Anderson | Died at Sandgate, 1863. |
| Hubert C. Whitlock | |
| Michael Murphy | |
| Littleton A. Powys | |
| James Geo. Scott | |
| Henry Albert Fuller | |
| Walter C. Strickland | |
| Frederick Augustus Wright | |
| Charles Lucius Smith | |
| Charles Hay Tollemache | |
| John Olphert Gage | |
| Thos. E. B. Townsend | |
| C. Horrocks | Retired 7th November, 1868. |
| H. L. Parry | Retired 1st February, 1873. |
| T. P. Powell | Retired 26th July, 1873. |
| H. W. Walker | Transferred to 2nd 19th Foot. |
| H. V. H. Brooke | Exchanged to 33rd Foot 1st December, 1869. |
| M. O. Kirkward | Retired 16th March, 1861. |
| W. F. Marriott | Exchanged to 41st Foot, 1875. |
| A. Fawcett | Retired 8th July, 1868. |
| J. W. Anderson | To Bombay Staff Corps, 11th July, 1874. |
| F. Bruce | Transferred to 39th Foot. |
| A. Chichester | Exchanged to 95th Foot, 31st August, 1870. |
| W. De Hogton | Died at S. Remo, 29th April, 1870. |
| R. W. S. Burnett | Retired 10th July, 1872. |
| Hon. E. F. Gifford | Exchanged to 2nd 24th Foot, 25th February, 1873. |
| C. W. Hinde | To Bombay Staff Corps, 7th February, 1873. |
| J. H. Hardtman Berckley | Transferred to 107th Regiment, 15th January, 1876. |
| L. F. Heath | To Indian Staff Corps, 1871. |
| C. G. B. Hervey | To Indian Staff Corps, 1878. |
| G. Cleaveland | Died at Mount Aboo, 19th March, 1895. |
| G. A. Beresford | Died at Deesa, 8th June, 1875. |
| P. A. Buckland | To Bengal Staff Corps, 24th April, 1875. |
| H. F. Cadell | To Madras Staff Corps, 36th November, 1876. |
| C. St. L. Wilkinson | Retired 25th November, 1874. |
| A. C. G. Mayne | To I.S.C., 1st September, 1877. |
| J. W. Hogge | To I.S.C., 23rd May, 1876. |
| C. H. W. Alexander | Resigned 30th October, 1878. |
| H. E. W. Beville | To I.S.C., 14th December, 1875. |
| A. W. Ancketill | Resigned 7th June, 1875. |
| H. Read | To Bengal Staff Corps. |
| H. B. Warden | To Bombay Staff Corps, 1876. |
| J. M. Johnstone | Retired 26th November, 1879. |
| A. D. Enriquerz | To I.S.C., 29th November, 1881. |
| H. Mansfield | To I.S.C., 5th August, 1878. |
| G. F. N. Ginley | To Bombay Staff Corps. |
| D. Cole | To I.S.C., 19th July, 1878. |
| L. B. H. Baker | To I.S.C. |
| W. D. Thomson | To I.S.C., 29th August, 1882. |
| G. R. D. Westrapp | To I.S.C., 26th April, 1880. |
| J. F. Trant | Exchanged to 2nd West India Regiment, 2nd August, 1882. |
| G. V. Burrows | To I.S.C. |
| R. W. F. Monteith | To A.S.C., 18th April, 1885. |
| A. P. S. Barnett | To I.S.C., 16th March, 1882. |
| E. A. Kettlewell | To I.S.C., 18th December, 1880. |
| W. G. Alban | To I.S.R., 9th November, 1880. |
| W. Browne | |
| M. A. Tighe | |
| H. F. Battersby | Retired 29th October, 1883. |
| J. Fisher | To 2nd Norfolk Regt., 7th Nov., 1883. |
| C. H. Orpen | Resigned 29th June, 1887. |
| J. R. Gray | To K.R. Rifles, 18th January, 1886. |
| H. R. Homfray | Transferred to 1st Life Guards, 7th November, 1888. |
| J. F. Stewart | Transferred to S. Rifles, 14th April, 1883. |
| G. W. Paliu | Transferred to North Stafford Regiment, 12th June, 1883. |
| A. W. Hasted | Transferred to 2nd Wilts Regiment, 25th August, 1885. |
| J. H. Lowry | To I.S.C., 5th May, 1887. |
| F. F. Bradshaw | To I.S.C., 2nd March, 1887. |
| G. W. Massey | Promoted into 2nd Battalion, 2nd March, 1893. |
| A. P. M. Burke | Resigned 2nd March, 1903. |
| E. W. H. Somerset | To Rifle Brigade, 3rd August, 1887. |
| A. H. Festing | To Royal Niger Coy., 29th July, 1885. |
| G. S. Carey | Transferred to 2nd R.I. Rifles, 23rd July, 1895. Died at Poona. |
| M. S. D. Westrapp | Resigned 8th June, 1898. |
| H. L. Low | Killed on service with 2nd R.I. Rifles in South Africa, 10th May, 1902. |
| W. A. King Harmen | |
| H. Wilding | Resigned 14th September, 1898. |
| R. L. Hughes Hallett | To Indian Army, 3rd October, 1900. |
| A. G. Forbes | Died at Dum Dum, 18th December, 1900. |
| C. S. Dixon | Promoted into 2nd R.I. Rifles. |
| C. L. W. Wallace | Resigned 13th June, 1905. |
| A. S. Kirkwood | To S. and T. Corps, 1st November, 1906. |
| W. M. Lanyon | |
| A. J. Biscoe | |
| H. R. Goodman | |
| W. M. Culloch | Resigned, 1907. |
| F. Robinson | Died at Meerut, 11th April, 1906. |
| Hon. B. A. Forbes | |
| E. M. A. J. Hogan | |
| G. A. Chatterton | |
| P. F. J. Smith | |
| J. F. Martyr | |
| C. C. Tee | |
| Geo. H. Cazalet | Promoted to 18th Regiment. |
| Robert Portal | Promoted to 41st Regiment. |
| T. G. L. Carew Gwyn | Exchanged to 6th Dragoon Guards, 1847. |
| W. T. Riley | To 52nd Regiment. |
| William A. Riddell | Retired. |
| H. M. Scott | Died at Manchester, 1832. |
| Frederick Ford | Retired, 1858. |
| James Pringle | Promoted. |
| Thomas Graham | Died at Kurrachee, 1852. |
| Graham Mylne | Promoted to 82nd Regiment. |
| William Blathway | Killed accidentally at Ilfracombe, 1859. |
| Geo. E. E. Blunt | Henry Geo. Wilson |
| A. Goring Bridger | |
| Henry Church | |
| James M. Lyall | |
| Sir Keith G. Jackson, Bart. | |
| R. O. De Montmorency | |
| John Blurton | |
| Anthony McClymont | Died at Deesa, 1856. |
| A. Crowley | Transferred to 48th Foot 1st May, 1878. |
| H. B. Brown | Transferred to 2 R.I.R. 27th May, 1888. |
| C. Gosling | Transferred to K.R.R. 28th Nov., 1888. |
| H. M. Biddulph | Transferred to Rifle Brigade, 6th February, 1889. |
| J. Murray | Died 25th October, 1898. |
| C. B. L. Clery | To I.S.C. |
| R. G. Baker | To I.C.S. 15th January, 1900. |
| R. C. Wilson | Resigned 1st October, 1901. |
| H. A. Gaussen | Resigned 7th April, 1906. |
| L. Pilkington | Resigned 1st November, 1901. |
| T. H. Barton | To Indian Army 16th November, 1903. |
| H. N. Jones | Exchanged to 2 R.I.R. 8th August, 1903. |
| A. H. Parsons | To Indian Army. |
| G. S. Scott | |
| E. C. Kenny | To Indian Army, 1903. |
| E. R. Ludlow Hewitt | |
| N. Hutcheson | |
| R. O. Mansergh | |
| E. De W. Waller | |
| A. W. Galway | |
| Paymasters. | |
| Richard Brough | Retired, 1849. |
| John Denis Swinburne | |
| F. Fereday | Exchanged to 95th Foot, 31st Oct., 1871. |
| F. Scrivener | Transferred to A.P.D. 1st April, 1878. |
| Adjutants. | |
| John Stubbs | Died at Kingston, 1840. |
| B. H. Browne | Promoted. |
| William Nott | Do. |
| William Hall | Died at Kurrachee, 1851. |
| Edward H. M. Mainwaring | Died at Poona, 1856. |
| James Nicholas Colthurst | |
| G. E. E. Blunt | |
| W. Coake Collis | 27th June, 1871. |
| H. H. Berkeley | To 21st November, 1875. |
| F. S. F. Stokes | To 19th October, 1878. |
| W. B. Marling | To 16th December, 1882. |
| J. S. Brown | To 26th April, 1886. |
| F. J. H. Bell | To 25th May, 1890. |
| L. T. V. Wilkinson | To 1st January, 1892. |
| F. E. P. Curzon | To 31st December, 1895. |
| O. C. Baker | To 31st December, 1899. |
| C. C. Macnamara | To 31st December, 1903. |
| H. R. Charley | To 31st December, 1906. |
| H. R. Goodman | |
| Quartermasters. | |
| John Rusher | Retired, 1838. |
| Robert Imray | Retired, 1844. |
| Joseph Cartmail | Exchanged to 3rd Regiment, 1847. |
| William Colburn | Died at Poona, 1852. |
| Patrick Hayes | Retired as Captain, 1863. |
| T. Copeland | |
| H. McQuade | Transferred to 6 R.I.R., 7th January, 1882. |
| H. Jones | Transferred to 3 R.I.R., 10th June, 1882. |
| J. McGarty | Retired 23rd August, 1883. |
| L. Duffy | Superseded 24th October, 1884. |
| P. J. Thorpe | Cashiered 3rd November, 1893. |
| J. Cunningham | Died in South Africa, 1st March, 1898. |
| Q. T. Drage | To Depôt, 21st October, 1903. |
| H. W. Foster | |
| Surgeons. | |
| Samuel A. Piper, M.D. | Removed to 30th Regiment, 1830. |
| James Cross | Half-pay, 1837. |
| John Maitland | Exchanged to R.C. Regiment, 1843. |
| William Gardiner | Exchanged to 8th Regiment, 1842. |
| R. J. O’Flaherty | Promoted, 1845. |
| George Ledingham | Died at Poona, 1850. |
| Frederick Hobson Clark | Died at sea, 1855. |
| Charles F. Stephenson | Died at Deesa, 1856. |
| Robert Browne | Exchanged to 25th Regiment, 1863. |
| Chas. R. Robinson | |
| J. H. Macfadin | Exchanged to 47th Foot, 8th Dec., 1869. |
| Surgeon-Major. | |
| A. R. Hudson | Transferred to Staff 28th March, 1879. |
| Assistant-Surgeons. | |
| George R. Watson | Died at Ballinrobe, 1882. |
| David Pitcairn | Exchanged to 15th Hussars, 1854. |
| James Flyter | Exchanged to 4th Dragoon Guards, 1847. |
| James Macbeth | Removed to Staff, 1843. |
| John H. Ker Innes | To Staff, 1851. |
| W. S. S. H. Monro | Retired, 1855. |
| John Hamilton Bews | To Staff (promoted), 1855. |
| W. N. Boyce | Died at Kurrachee, 1862. |
| Edward Touch | Promoted to Staff, 1857. |
| H. C. Miles | Promoted. |
| William Sharp | Half-pay. |
| Thomas Mould | Transferred to Royal Artillery, 1862. |
| C. S. Wills | |
| J. Bourke | Exchanged to 2nd 15th Regiment, 10th February, 1869. |
| E. Coffey | Transferred to Staff 6th March, 1870. |
| W. Geoghan | |
| T. G. Adye Curran | Transferred, 1874. |
THE END