1876.
The regiment still remains quartered at Malta. The composition and nationality of the regiment at the present date is as follows:—
| Mode of Enlistment. | English. | Irish. | Scotch. | Total. |
| Enlisted for Seventy-first | 12 | 6 | 526 | 544 |
| Transfers from other regiments | 7 | 3 | — | 10 |
| From schools | 7 | — | — | 7 |
| Fifty-fifth Brigade | 34 | 25 | — | 59 |
| Total | 60 | 34 | 526 | 620 |
It will be seen by the above how little the Seventy-first has profited by the Depôt Brigade system.
HARRISON AND SONS, PRINTERS IN ORDINARY TO HER MAJESTY, ST. MARTIN’S LANE.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Journal of a French officer.
[2] Major in the Seventy-third, Lieut.-Colonel by “local” rank, dated 23rd May, 1781.
[3] The effective return of the regiment at this time was 29 officers, 934 sergeants, rank and file.