[Forty-one years in India by Frederick Sleigh Roberts]@TWC D-Link bookForty-one years in India CHAPTER LXVIII 37/120
1 Mountain Battery, commanded by Captain Kelso 136 4 7th Company Bengal Sappers and Miners 113 2nd (Punjab Frontier Force) Infantry, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Tyndall 647 5th (Punjab Frontier Force) Infantry, commanded by Major McQueen 502 5th (Punjab Frontier Force) Gurkhas, commanded by Major Fitz-Hugh 438 21st Punjab Infantry, commanded by Major Collis 496 23rd Pioneers, commanded by Colonel Currie 650 29th Punjab Infantry, commanded by Colonel J.J.Gordon 671 -- --- -- Total Natives 3,990 4 -- --- -- Grand total 5,335 13 Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Lindsay commanded the Artillery, Colonel AEneas Perkins was Commanding Royal Engineer.
Colonel Hugh Gough commanded the Cavalry, Brigadier-Generals Cobbe (17th Foot) and Thelwall (21st Punjab Infantry) the two Infantry brigades.
Major W.Galbraith (85th Foot) was Assistant-Adjutant-General; Major H.Collett, Assistant, and Captains 'Dick' Kennedy and F.Carr, Deputy-Assistant-Quartermasters-General.
Captains G.de C.Morton and A.Scott, V.C., Brigade-Majors.
Captain A.Badcock, Chief Commissariat officer; Captain J.Colquhoun, R.A., Commissary of Ordnance; Major Moriarty, Captain Goad, and Lieutenant F.Maisey, Transport officers; Captain A.Wynne (51st Foot), Superintendent of Field Telegraphs; Captain R.Woodthorpe, R.E., Superintendent of Surveys; Deputy-Surgeon-General F.Allen, Principal Medical officer; Rev.J.W. Adams, Chaplain. * * * * * APPENDIX IV. (Referred to in Chapter XLIX, Footnote 15.) _Translation of a letter from_ MAJOR-GENERAL SIR FREDERICK ROBERTS _to His Highness_ THE AMIR OF KABUL. ALIKHEL, _18th September_, 1879. (After the usual compliments.) Your Highness's letter of the 28th Ramazan, with the enclosures from Herat and Turkestan, reached me last night.
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