[241] Lieutenant-Colonel John Brett, retired full-pay.
[242] Captain William Higgins, Quartermaster, half-pay.
[243] Major Coote Buller died April 5, 1868.
[244] Major G. R. Noseley, Paymaster, half-pay.
[245] ‘Malcolm was shot through the head; a finer and more gallant young fellow never lived.... There is not an officer in the Regiment who does not sincerely regret him.’—Ross’s Letter, November 7, 1854.
[246] Colonel Claude T. Bourchier, V.C., Aide-de-Camp to the Queen.
[247] Major Sir William J. M. Cuninghame, Bart., V.C., M.P., retired.
[248] I am indebted to Marshal Canrobert for a copy of this order, which conferred so unusual and marked a distinction on the Regiment. In the letter which accompanied the transcript the Marshal expresses his appreciation of ‘la magnifique conduite du détachment de la Rifle Brigade commandé par le Capitaine Tryon.’
[249] 105 men were employed on other duties connected with the service of the army.
[250] In order to show the state to which the Battalion was reduced by sickness and losses in the field, I may quote the Duty State of Woodford’s company on January 19, 1855, which I owe to the kindness of the Hon. and Rev. George B. Legge. By this it appears that the company which left England six months before with a strength of about 100 men, had then present and nominally fit for duty just one sergeant and eight men. Of these some were in an exhausted and hardly efficient condition. Four non-commissioned officers and 25 privates were returned as ‘in or attending hospital,’ and 6 non-commissioned officers, 1 bugler and 42 privates were at Balaklava or Scutari, wounded or sick.