-Northamptonshire, by his marriage with Isabella Mary Frances
Charlotte, daughter of the late Colonel William Chester-Master, of the
Abbey, Cirencester, and was born on July 17, 1852. Educated at Eton, he
entered the army as a sub-lieutenant on March 26, 1873, and was gazetted
to the 60th Foot (now the King's Royal Rifle Corps) as a lieutenant on
September 9, 1874. He served in the Zulu War of 1879 with the third
battalion of his regiment, and was present at the action of Gingindhlovu
and the relief of Ekowe, afterwards serving as adjutant of the battalion
throughout the operations of "Clarke's Column," for which he wore the
medal with clasp. He was gazetted captain in August 1883, was an adjutant
of the Auxiliary Forces (the 5th Militia Battalion of the King's Royal
Rifles) from March 1886 to March 1891, having obtained the rank of major
on June 25, 1890. In 1891-92 he took part in the war in Burma, being
engaged in the operations in the Chin Hills in command of the Baungshe
column, for which he wore a second medal with clasp. His commission as
lieutenant-colonel bore date April 16, 1898. Colonel Gunning, who was in
the Commission of the Peace for the county of Northants, married in 1880
Fanny Julia, daughter of the late Mr. Clinton George Dawkins, formerly Her
Majesty's Consul-General at Venice.

[3] Colonel John James Scott Chisholme, who was killed at Elandslaagte,
belonged to the 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers, and who was detached on special
service in South Africa, came of an old Scottish family, the Chisholmes of
Stirches, Roxburghshire, his family seat being situate at the latter
place. He was the only son of the late Mr. John Scott Chisholme (who
assumed the name of Scott in 1852 under the will of his uncle, Mr. James
Scott of Whitehaugh), by his marriage with Margaret, eldest daughter and
co-heir of the late Mr. Robert Walker of Mumrells, Stirlingshire, and was
born in 1851. He entered the army in January 1872, his first services
being with the 9th Lancers, and reached the rank of captain in March 1878.
From that year till 1880 he served with the 9th Lancers in the Afghan War,
was present at the capture of Ali Musjid, took part in the affair of Siah
Sung, where he was severely wounded, and in the operations around Cabul in
December 1879, when he was again wounded, and obtained mention in
despatches, being rewarded with the brevet of major (May 2, 1881), and the
medal with two clasps. He reached the substantive rank