Memoirs and Services of the Eighty-third Regiment, County of Dublin, from 1793 to 1907 / Including the Campaigns of the Regiment in the West Indies, Africa, the Peninsula, Ceylon, Canada, and India

by Edward William Bray

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.