[277] See [Appendix 9].
[278] See [Appendix 9].
[279] For casualties see [Appendix 2 (P)].
[280] See [Appendix 9].
[281] Gazette of July 19, 1898. See [chapter xiii]. and [Appendix 9].
[282] While out with the hounds at Clonmel one of the officers of the first battalion made a sensational jump, thus described in the sporting papers: “Mr Vigors, of the Royal Irish Regiment, now stationed at Clonmel, was riding a cob he had purchased a short time previously from Mr Burke, and racing at the road fence (a low wall on the inside, but very treacherous on the roadway, as it had been cut away 9 feet to level a hill) the cob jumped clean on to the road, with a fall outside of 11 feet. The horse never fell, but Mr Vigors fell on the cob’s neck, and slipped off at the far side of the road, luckily unhurt.”
[283] See [page 361].
[284] For the details of the kit and equipment with which the soldiers sailed for South Africa, see [Appendix 6].
[285] See [page 365].
[286] The following officers went to the war with the battalion; followed it to South Africa; served on the staff, or with mounted infantry. (The ranks are those held at the beginning of the war):—