The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-03-14 00:00:00

THE NEW BATTERY OF ARTILLERY.

The A Battery 13 Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery,
who are to take the place of the I of 0, the lest dot oh-
meet of which battery left D ochester for Aldershot
on Tharedlay, arrived here from Portsmouth by •
special train at half•past four on Thursday afternoon.
An Is usually the C 0.,, the men were welcomed t o the
town by large number. of persons, ant the band of the
Dorset Militia, under Drum-Idajor Luca% was also in
atteadance to play them te their new quarters. On
the arrival of the train, they were drawn up in three
divisions outside the station. earl, headed by the band,
marched through the town to the Barracks, the fine
pAyspitsc and hardened appearance of the men being
tuu,As r.massitod. see iutleirl • flue set of men.
and bear marks of great arpoure to an Indian sun.
and evident traces of hard service. As will be seen
below, they have been engaged in more than one con.
61st with our swarthy foes, the Afghans, and all of
them have been decoated with one, and some with
two medals.
The officers of the Battery are al follows :—Major
W. R. C. Brougb, Captain O. 11. Hamilton, Lieut.
J. B. Archdall, Lieut. J. W. Dunlop. Non-com-
missioned °Naos Sergeant- Major W. Baboon,
Qnsartermuter-Sergeant H. Charter., Serge ants C.
Briggs, Lenten, R. Thornton, T. Jones', J. Smithers,
W. Inglis, J. Playfout, &al Farrier-Sergeant W.
Turner.
The Battery left Umbedia on January 20th, and
embarked at Bombay on H.K. Trowthip Seraph on
February 4th. After • fair passage the troopship
arrived at Portsmouth on Meech 9th, having bwe IA
am 34 day., including two daya at Suez, and 20 hours
in the C mai caused by • block.
The following sketch c attains an recount of the
=l• history of the Battery, which may be ntere ding.
ormerly the A of 0, under Col. Todd Brown,
they were stationed at Dorchester from 1887 to 1869.
After leaving Dorchester they remained at Aldershot
from 1069 to 1871, and at Woolwich from 1872 to the
time when they proceeded to Indio, on January 16th,
WA On the amalgamation of the R.H.A , this
Battery weenie the Aofß, in July 1877. They were
ststiosed at Meerut from March 1873 to December
IWO, &Wag which period they were on the camp of
exercise at Roorklase from December 1873 tor January
1874. Beturniag to Meerut tie same year, the
Battery proceeded on • march to improve the health
of the tees, which had been greatly impaired by wars
fever. Again returning to Kagents. they Pro-
MOW to Delhi end the same year left for
Durbar camp. Having returned to Meerut
they remained stationed there till they left totirin the
Prime of Wales' camp at Delhi in the year 1876, after
which they went by fo,oed ma-ch to Agra to meet
the Priem Ordered again to Meerut, which place
they quitted in Deramber 1876, NAM orders' to Delhi
where they formed a portion of the Viceroy's escort
at the great irolonatlon of the Queen as Empress of
India on January Ist, 1877. After this they left for
lisermur, arriving there on February 11th, and being
again ordered to Umballa, they remained at the
latter place until the followinr 0.-tober. The Battery
ogre then ordered to Moot's& to join General Stuart'.
Soothers Arghan force. After undergoing gesso bard.
alp and privations the force reached and captured
Onodahar on January 4th, 1879, after alight resistoste.
The men saffered greatly from mid and hunger alt.,