[APPENDIX 9.]
SUCCESSION OF COLONELS OF THE REGIMENT.
| Colonel-in-Chief. | |
| Field-Marshal The Right Hon. G. J., Viscount Wolseley, K.P., G.C.B., O.M., G.C.M.G | 1898 |
| Colonels. | |
| 1. Arthur Forbes, Earl of Granard | 1684 |
| 2. Arthur, Lord Forbes | 1686 |
| 3. Colonel Sir John Edgworth | 1688 |
| 4. Edward Brabazon, Earl of Meath | 1689 |
| 5. Major-General Frederick Hamilton | 1692 |
| 6. Lieutenant-General Richard Ingoldsby | 1705 |
| 7. Brigadier-General Robert Stearne | 1712 |
| 8. Brigadier-General William Cosby | 1717 |
| 9. Colonel Sir Charles Hotham, Bart. | 1732 |
| 10. Major-General John Armstrong | 1735 |
| 11. General Sir John Mordaunt, K.B. | 1742 |
| 12. Lieutenant-General John Folliott | 1747 |
| 13. General Sir John Sebright, Bart. | 1762 |
| 14. General Sir James Murray, Bart. (later Pulteney) | 1794 |
| 15. General John Hely Hutchinson, Earl of Donoughmore, K.B. | 1811 |
| 16. General Matthew Aylmer, Lord Aylmer, G.C.B. | 1832 |
| 17. Field-Marshal Sir John Forster Fitzgerald, G.C.B. | 1858 |
| 18. Lieutenant-General Clement Alexander Edwards, C.B. | 1877 |
| 19. General Sir Alexander Macdonell, K.C.B. | 1882 |
| 20. General Sir Richard Denis Kelly, K.C.B. | 1886 |
| 21. General George Frederick Stevenson Call, C.B. | 1889 |
| 22. General Robert Walter M‘Leod Fraser | 1895 |
| 23. Lt.-General Sir Henry Marshman Havelock-Allan, Bart., V.C., G.C.B. | 1895 |
| 24. Major-General Charles Frederick Gregorie, C.B. | 1897 |
BIOGRAPHIES OF THE COLONELS.
Colonel-in-Chief.
Field-Marshal The Right Hon. G. J., Viscount Wolseley, K.P., G.C.B., O.M., G.C.M.G.
Garnet Joseph Wolseley, the eldest son of Major Wolseley, 25th The King’s Own Scottish Borderers, was born on the 4th of June, 1833, and was appointed Ensign in the 80th Regiment on the 12th of March, 1852. He served with that regiment in the Burmese War of 1852-53 (Medal); he was with the expedition under Sir John Cheape against the robber chief Myat Toon, and was severely wounded when leading a storming party (Mentioned in despatches). In this campaign Ensign Wolseley fought shoulder to shoulder with the men of the 18th Royal Irish, and thus, early in his military career, formed acquaintance with the regiment of which he was destined to become Colonel-in-Chief, and which has since served through campaigns in armies under his command.
Lieutenant Wolseley’s next active service was in the Crimea with the 90th Light Infantry. Landing in December, 1854, he was employed in the trenches as Acting Engineer until the fall of Sebastopol, and was engaged in the assault and defence of the Quarries on June 7th, the attack of June 18th, and the sortie of August 30th, when he was severely wounded (Several times mentioned in despatches, Medal with clasp, Knight of the Legion of Honour, 5th Class of the Medjidie, and Turkish Medal).