g 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:--

Lieutenant Westmacott, 77th Foot, aide-de-camp; Major W.J. Butler, C.B.,
assistant-adjutant and quartermaster-general, stationed at Durban; and
Captain W.R. Fox, Royal Artillery, deputy assistant-adjutant and
quartermaster-general.

On the arrival of the boys with the waggons at Pieter-Maritzburg, they
reported themselves at the headquarters of the transport corps, and were
told that they were not to go down to Durban, but were to load up at
once and accompany the Dragoon Guards, who were to march the next
morning for the front.

This time the lads were mounted, as their fathers thought that they
would gain more benefit from their experience if they were able to move
about instead of being confined to the sides of their waggons, and it
was a satisfaction to their mot