[187] ‘Personal Narrative of Military Travel and Adventure in Turkey and Persia,’ by Robert Macdonald, pp. 22-25. The writer, a sergeant in the 1st Battalion, was selected with his brother Peter Macdonald to proceed to Persia in 1836. See [p. 234].
[188] Now Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Wilbraham, K.C.B.
[189] ‘Personal Narrative of Military Travel and Adventure,’ pp. 286-7.
[190] Lieutenant-Colonel Irton died June 9, 1847.
[191] Colonel Buller (now General Sir George Buller, G.C.B.) had left Corfu for England before the order to embark arrived.
[192] Lieutenant-General Sir Alfred H. Horsford, G.C.B.
[CHAPTER VIII.]
On August 31, 1846, transports having arrived from England for the conveyance of the 1st Battalion to the Cape, they re-embarked; Head-quarters on board the ‘Equestrian’ transport, consisting of Captains Macdonell’s, Rooper’s, and Stewart’s companies, with Staff and band; and the left wing consisting of Captains Horsford’s, Murray’s, and Gibson’s companies, on board the ‘Fairlie’ under Captain Horsford.