The following is the full strength of the troops drawn up for the Lieutenant-General’s inspection:—

Kurram Division, Cabul Field Force.
Non-commissioned
NativeOfficers and Men.
Troops.Officers.Officers.————————Total
British.Native.
F-A, Royal Horse Artillery5—106—111
G-3, Royal Artillery6—107—113
No. 1 Mountain Battery2148087
No. 2 Mountain Battery4—47482
9th Lancers16—265—281
5th Punjab Cavalry811—342361
14th Bengal Lancers710—213230
67th Foot15—439—454
72nd Highlanders18—553—571
92nd Highlanders15—561—576
23rd Pioneers46—295305
3rd Sikhs810—525543
5th Punjab Infantry411—503518
5th Ghoorkas58—389402
7th Company Sappers3—46976
Total120572,0432,4904,710

To these have to be added the Staff, which was made up as follows:—

Commanding Cavalry Brigade—Brigadier-General Massy; Brigade-Major—Lieutenant Brabazon; Orderly Officer—Lieutenant Hearsey.

Commanding 1st Infantry Brigade—Brigadier-General Macpherson; Brigade-Major—Captain Guinness; Orderly Officer—Captain Macgregor.

Commanding 2nd Infantry Brigade—Brigadier-General Baker; Brigade-Major—Captain Farwell; Orderly Officer—Lieutenant Kane.

Commanding Royal Artillery—Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon; Officiating Adjutant—Lieutenant Allsopp.

The parade went off very successfully, and seemed to impress Sirdar Wali Mahomed Khan, Daoud Shah (the late Commander-in-Chief of the Afghan army), and other persons of importance who were present.

We mix work and play a good deal at Cabul: for scarcely had the parade ended than the more serious business of sending out a brigade into the Chardeh Valley was begun. In the afternoon the following troops, under the command of Brigadier-General Macpherson, left the cantonment and marched to Aoshahr, five miles due west of Sherpur:—

6companies 67th Foot;
7companies 5th Ghoorkas;
550of the 3rd Sikhs;
4guns F-A, Royal Horse Artillery;
4guns No. 1 Mountain Battery;
1squadron 9th Lancers;
2squadrons 14th Bengal Lancers.