Paymaster and Honorary Major—J. Forbes-Mosse (attached; before joining the pay department this officer had been in the XVIIIth).
Surgeon—Captain G. B. Hickson, Medical Staff.
[257] Colvile’s ‘History of the Soudan Campaign,’ vol. i. pp. 117-119.
[258] The cataract of Kaiber is termed the Third. It should really be numbered the Eighth. Butler, ‘Campaign of the Cataracts,’ p. 200.
[259] For the benefit of the civilian reader it must be explained that “Skipper” is army slang for the officer commanding a company.
[260] Captain Forster’s marching-out state at Sarras showed a total of ninety-two in his company; his marching-in state at Korti only seventy-seven of all ranks.
[261] This name is spelt Jakdul in some maps.
[262] The Maconochie ration, so much appreciated during the war of 1899-1902, was not then in use.
[263] See [Appendix 2 (N)].
[264] Colvile’s ‘History of the Soudan Campaign,’ vol. ii. p. 73.