The whole of our combined forces amounted to a little over five thousand men (3000 in Matabeleland, 2200 in Mashonaland). This included 1200 Imperial troops, composed of detachments of the 7th Hussars, the Special Service Mounted Infantry, the infantry and mounted infantry detachments of the West Riding and York and Lancaster Regiments, some Royal Engineers and Artillery, Medical Staff, etc.
The local forces included 4200 men—English, Dutch, and Cape Boys; organised in local field forces for each town; also Plumer’s Matabeleland Relief Force, the Natal Troop, and the Cape Boys Corps.
In addition to these, we had nearly four thousand eight hundred friendly natives; but, as a rule, they were practically useless to us.
Our Native Allies
But these, together with the transport employés, etc., brought up the number of mouths in the forces to be fed to nearly twelve thousand.
The casualties among the troops (not including the native levies) were as follows:—
| Matabeleland. | Mashonaland. | Total. | ||||
| Deaths, 134. | { | Killed, or Died of Wounds | 51 | 19 | == | 70 |
| Died, other Causes | 48 | 9 | == | 57 | ||
| Killed Accidentally1 | 7 | 0 | == | 7 | ||
| —— | —— | —— | ||||
| Total | 106 | 28 | == | 134 | ||
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| Wounded, 173. | { | Wounded in Action | 90 | 68 | == | 158 |
| Accidentally Wounded1 | 13 | 2 | == | 15 | ||
| —— | —— | —— | ||||
| Total | 103 | 70 | == | 173 | ||
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1 Chiefly mishandling loaded rifles, and also from a dynamite explosion at Buluwayo.