Chapter XV: The First Battalion

1900-1902.

SOUTH AFRICA (CONTINUED): SLABBERT’S NEK: THE BRANDWATER BASIN:
BERGENDAL: MONUMENT HILL: LYDENBURG: THE MOUNTED INFANTRY OF
THE ROYAL IRISH REGIMENT 332

APPENDICES.

1. THE MOVEMENTS OF THE XVIIIth ROYAL IRISH REGIMENT FROM THE
TIME OF ITS FORMATION IN 1684 TO THE END OF THE WAR IN SOUTH
AFRICA IN 1902, AND THE PLACES WHERE IT HAS BEEN QUARTERED IN
TIME OF PEACE 375

2. CASUALTY ROLL 385

3. OFFICERS OF THE 1ST AND 2ND BATTALIONS WHO DIED IN THE
WEST INDIES BETWEEN 1805 AND 1816 403

4. ROLL OF OFFICERS, WARRANT OFFICERS, NON-COMMISSIONED
OFFICERS, AND MEN OF THE ROYAL IRISH REGIMENT TO WHOM HAVE
BEEN AWARDED THE VICTORIA CROSS, MEDALS FOR DISTINGUISHED
CONDUCT IN THE FIELD, FOR MERITORIOUS SERVICE, AND FOR LONG
SERVICE AND GOOD CONDUCT 404

5. THE TIRAH CAMPAIGN: COLONEL LAWRENCE’S ORDER OF JUNE 8, 1898 414

6. THE SOLDIER’S KIT IN SOUTH AFRICA 416

7. INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE DEFENCE OF TRAINS 417

8. DIARY SHOWING MOVEMENT OF THE FIRST BATTALION IN THE NORTH
OF THE TRANSVAAL BETWEEN APRIL 12, 1901, AND SEPTEMBER 30, 1901 418

9. SUCCESSION OF COLONELS OF THE REGIMENT 422

10. MEMORIALS OF THE ROYAL IRISH REGIMENT 431

11. TABLE SHOWING THE FORMER NUMBERS AND PRESENT NAMES OF THE
INFANTRY REGIMENTS OF THE REGULAR ARMY 440

INDEX 443

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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THE NORTH TRANSEPT OF ST PATRICK’S CATHEDRAL,
DUBLIN _Frontispiece_

LITHOGRAPHIC REPRODUCTION OF LORD WOLSELEY’S LETTER _facing_ viii

MEMORIAL TO THOSE WHO DIED IN THE AFGHAN, EGYPTIAN,
AND NILE CAMPAIGNS 231

MEMORIALS TO THOSE WHO FELL IN SOUTH AFRICA 305, 374

LIST OF MAPS.

NO. 1. BLENHEIM, RAMILLIES, OUDENARDE, AND MALPLAQUET _facing_ 60

NO. 2. THE LOW COUNTRIES ” 78

NO. 3. BASIN OF THE MEDITERRANEAN ” 116

NO. 4-5. CHINA AND BURMA ” 160

NO. 6. THE CRIMEA ” 188

NO. 7. NEW ZEALAND ” 220

NO. 8-9. THE WAR IN EGYPT, 1882--THE NILE EXPEDITION ” 286

NO. 10. SOUTH AFRICA ” 442

CORRIGENDA.

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40 24 _for_ Lieut. G. Roberts _read_ S. Roberts.
69 10 ” Colonel Crosby ” Cosby.
70 1 of footnote ” ” ” ” ”
121 10 ” ” Lieut. D. Edwards ” Edwardes.
128 4 ” ” Lieut. C. W. Davis ” G. W. Davis.
{ 3 ” ” Lieut. H. J. Stephenson ” H. F. Stephenson.
147 {15 ” ” Lieut. G. W. Stackpoole ” G. W. Stacpoole.
{17 ” ” Ens. T. E. Esmond ” T. E. Esmonde.
160 28 ” Lieut. W. F. Cockburn ” W. P. Cockburn.
165 4 of footnote ” Capt. G. W. Stackpole ” G. W. Stacpoole.

The Campaigns and History of

The Royal Irish Regiment.