The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-31 00:00:00

H.M. SEVENTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT.

Already we have announced the return of this splendid
regiment from India, and its disembarkation on Wednesday
morning at Portsmouth. Having first of all proceeded (on
leaving England shortly after its return home from the
Crimea), across the ocean to Australia, and having thenc:^
crossed the ocean again to Hindostan on the breaking out of
the Indian Mutiny, the Seventy-Seventh Regiment, upon now
returning to England via the Suez Canal, have, in point of
fact, become the Circumnavigators of Africa. Already this
noble troop bears inscribed upon its colours these eight
grand historical names—
S eeda sere Seringapata m
Ciudad Rodrigo —Elbodo I—Badajoz
Alma—lnkerman—Sebastopol.

Seeing that the 77th is the very first regiment that has
been conveyed bodily along the Suez Canal, one is almost
tempted to suggest that the name of the "Suez Canal" should
be emblazoned on its banners, side by tide with the vic-
tories in memory of that peaceful achievement. Now that
the 77th have on reaching Portsmouth, passed from the
floating palace of the Great Indian screw relief troop ship
the Jumna, to its old location, twenty years ago, in the
Clarence Barracks, it is intriesting to read among the re-
collections in regard to it penned by a Correspondent of
the Hampshire Telegraph, the subjoined list of the 77th, as
it was, 21 years ago, that is in 1849, and as it is now in 1870—
Officers of 77th in Ports-
mouth in March, 1849. Remarks.
Lieutenant-Colonel,
Nicholas Wilson, Kai., (Col). Exchanged to 64th Regt.
gilled at Cawnpore.

Majors.
Thomas Graham Egerton ... Colonel and Lieut. Colonel
commanding. Billed in
Crimea.
•
Robert Jocelyn Straton ... Colonel and Lieut.-Colonel
commanding. Died at Dum-
Dum.

Captains.
Guy Clark
William Jonathan Clerke ... Bt. Major, retired. read.
Alexander Tomkius
George Dixon
Paris W. A. Bradshawe
Henry Jervis White Retired. Dead.
William F0rbe5......... Major Unattached. Retired.
Edward H. Lou they Crofton Died in Crimea.
James Putler Fellowes Retired.
Alexander Aitken... Retired. Major Ist West York
Militia.

Lieutenants.
Bartholom w O'Brien Colonel and Lieut.-Colonel
commanding 4th Battalion,
late Military Train.
John Haaokett
76th Rh-giment.
George. Harry Smith Willis .. Colonel, unattached. Assist.
Qr. Mr. Goni. South. Dis-
trict.
eorge Cary
Henry Robert Carden Lieut.-Colonel, unattached.—
Maj. North Tipperary Light
Infantry Militia.
Thomas Oriel Forster . Captain, retired. Lieut.-Col.

com. Monaghan Militia.
Francis Kennedy
Wm. Wentworth Grant Dilke Captain. Died in Bulgaria.
Robert Mostyn ..........
Regiment. Dead.
Henry Jobling Wallack
at-Arms.
Thomas Elliott
William Bertram

George Leslie Retired. Late Captain Royal
Elthorne, or 5t Middlesex
Regiment of Militia.

Ensigns.
Henry Kent . . Lieut.-Colonel commanding.
W Milani Ronalds
William Henry Weston ...... Retired. Adjutant 56th Lan-
cashire Rifle Volunteers.
W. H. 0. G. Brooke-Pechel Captain. Killed in Crimea.
W. F. Tollemache Exchanged to 12th Lancers,

Dead.
William Rickman
Depot Battalion.
Ben'inck Duncan Gilby ... Brevet Major. Died in Cri-

mea. •
John Richard Harvey
Borderers."

Paymaster.
William Galwey

Retired.

Dead.

Quarter Master.
John Remington Breading Quartermas. Ist Derby Militia
(late Captain h.p. Depot
Battalion).

Surgeon.
Joseph Samuel Prendergast... Inspector General of Hosp
tale, h.p.

Assistant-Surgeon.
Chtistopher Macartney, E. 8... Surgeon. Died in Crimea
"Colonel Kent"—who served the Eastern campaign of 1854
and up to 26th March, 1855, with the 77th Regiment, in-
cluding the battles of Alma and Inkerman, and siege of
Sebastopol (Medal with three Clasps, sth Class of Med-
jidie, and Turkish Medal)—" it will be [erceived," says the
correspondent of the Hampshire Telegraph, is the sole regi-
mental remnant of the commissioned officers of 77th—
the ultimus horum virorum (almost) Romanorum —that left
this command in spring, 1849 ! How many, therefore, of
the non-commissioned officers and men must since then
have passed from its ranks by death and otherwise!
In Captain Sayer's official volume the fatal pre-emi-
nence of the 77th in the Russian campaign is recorded
on the beautiful monument, in St. Paul's Cathedral, the
most :esthetic within its sacred precincts, of the East
Middlesex Regiment, from the studio of the gifted Noble,
records its fearful total of losses in the expeditionary
army of 1854-5-6. An engraving. and detailed account
may be found in the London Illustrated News of 16th July,
1864. On one scroll the marble bears the following inscrip-
tion :--

To commemorate
the loss of
15 Officers and
542 N. C. Officers,
Drummers, and Privates
sustained by the
77th Regiment
During the Crimean
Campaign,
1854, 1855, 1856.

" Upon the basement portion the names of the fifteen
officers, viz :

Colenel T. G. Egerton. Captain E. H. L. Crofton.
Captain W. W. G. Dilke. Captain W. H. C. G. B. Pechell,
Captain J. Nicholson. Bt. Major B. D. Gilby.
Captain W. B. 0. Parker. Captain Audley Lempriere.
Captain Knight. Lieut. Robert Walmesloy.
Lieut. Francis Alder. Lieut. Arthur F. Maine.
Lieut. Basil H. Brown. Ensign Charles Henry Massey.
Surgeon C. Macartney.
" The present remarkably healthy condition of the men is
surprising after their long Indian service, and the bronzed
complexions, resulting from the persistent scorching sun of
hot Hindostan, attests most palpably what tropical dangers
must have been undergone, though by sound sanitation,
skilful management, and moral discipline, sickness has been
kept under.

Among the welcoming throng on the wharf at the
dockyard Lou Wednesday morning]" says the same corre-
spondent, " were observable three former comrades, Major
Forbes. Dr. Prendergast, Capt. Knowles, 67th Regiment.
(Col. Willis was absent from Portsmouth on duty), who,
with glistening eyes and extended right hands of fellow-
ship, fratornised once more with Colo el Kent, and sin-
cerely congratulated him upon his promising body of young
officers, and the admirable state of his battalion.
" I cannot conclude this communication," adds the
writer, "without alluding to the respected chief's chestnut
charger, the Arabian Abdallab, which, having served con-
tinuously in the 77th Regiment for fifteen years, in the
Crimea, Great Britain, Australia, India, is now once more
Voyaging back in steamer from Alexandria, for England,
Home, and Duty- and yet remains, as Scott described
Marmion's,

A matchless horse, though somewhat old,
Prompt to his paces, cool and bold."

Altogether the 77th regiment has returned home in the
highest state of discipline, and with a splendid character for
efficiency.