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: —