Second Brigade—Brigadier-General Hildyard: 2nd Battalion Queen's, 2nd Battalion Devons, 2nd Battalion West Yorks, and 2nd Battalion East Surrey.
Fourth Brigade—Brigadier-General Norcott: 2nd Battalion Scottish Rifles, 3rd Battalion King's Royal Rifles, 1st Battalion Durham Light Infantry, and 1st Battalion Rifle Brigade, with three field batteries.
Fifth Division: Sir Charles Warren.
Tenth Brigade—Major-General Coke: 2nd Battalion Somerset Light Infantry, 2nd Battalion Dorset, 2nd Battalion Middlesex.
Eleventh Brigade—Brigadier-General A. S. Wynne: 1st Battalion King's Own, 1st Battalion East Lancashire, and the Rifle reserve battalion, with three batteries of field artillery.
Third Division: Clery.
Fifth Brigade—Major-General Hart: 1st Battalion Inniskilling Fusiliers, 1st Battalion Border Regiment, 1st Battalion Connaught Rangers, 2nd Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
Sixth Brigade—Major-General Barton: 2nd Battalion Royal Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers, 1st Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers, and 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers, with three field batteries.
Buller's cavalry consisted of the Royal Dragoons, 13th Hussars, and a large number of colonial troops, who were of the most effective service. He also had a naval brigade of 400 men, with a number of 4·7 and 12-pounder long-range guns.
Such was the position of the army commanded by Lord Roberts when, on February 12, General French was sent forward with the Cavalry Division (Kelly-Kenny, with the Sixth Division, following in support) for the relief of Kimberley.