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The Young Colonists: A Story of the Zulu and Boer Wars

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2017
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10-6th Royal Artillery… 30

Royal Engineers… 60

2-4th Regiment… 790

Detachment, 1-13th Regiment… 63

2-21st (two companies at Maritzburg)… 820

1-24th Regiment… 530

2-24th Regiment… 586

58th (one company at Durban)… 906

80th (several companies in the Transvaal)… 300

94th (one company at Grey Town)… 870

Army Service Corps… 60

Army Hospital Corps… 30

Grey Town District Colonial Volunteers… 139

Natal Mounted Police… 75

Natal Carabineers… 27

Newcastle Mounted Rifles… 18

Buffalo Mounted Guard… 20

Native Contingent: —

Europeans… 41

Natives (foot)… 3128

Natives (mounted)… 243

Total strength, effective and non-effective… 10,238

General Wood’s Flying Column.

11-7th Royal Artillery… 87

Royal Engineers… 13

1-13th Regiment… 721

90th Regiment… 823

1st Squadron, Mounted Infantry… 103

Army Service Corps… 9

Army Hospital Corps… 13

Frontier Light Horse… 173

Baker’s Horse… 179

Transvaal Rangers… 141

1st Battalion, Wood’s Irregulars: —

Europeans… 14

Natives… 377

2nd Battalion, Wood’s Irregulars: —

Europeans… 5

Natives… 355

Natal Native Horse: —

Europeans… 4

Natives… 75

Total strength, effective and non-effective… 3092

Grand Total.

1st Division… 9215

2nd Regiment… 10,238

General Wood’s Flying Column. 3092

Total, effective and non-effective: namely, Europeans, 15,660, and natives, 6885… 22,545

Out of this grand total there were about 400 sick and non-effective with the 1st Division, 300 with the 2nd Division, and 600 (including some of Wood’s Irregulars, absent and not accounted for since the 28th of March) with Wood’s Flying Column. So that altogether, deducting, say, 1500, Lord Chelmsford had at his disposal, from the middle of April, a total of 21,000 troops, of which over 15,000 were European. Colonels Pearson and Wood were made Brigadier-Generals, and the former was to command Number 1 Brigade, 1st Division, and Colonel Pemberton, 3-60th, the other. They both, however, had to give up their commands through sickness, and Colonels Rowland, V.C., C.B., and Clark, 57th Regiment, succeeded them.

Major-General Clifford, V.C., C.B., had the following staff for the management of the base of the operations and the maintenance of the lines of communication between Zululand and Natal: —
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