Sir Nevil Macready, at this time Adjutant-General of our Forces.
6
The number of killed amounted to 44 and 88 wounded.
7
Colonel Horsborgh was taken ill suddenly on the transport returning from Aden, and he was buried at sea by Colonel Laurie.
8
See page 119.
9
General Laurie and his brother, Colonel Dyson-Laurie, went to the Crimean War when quite young boys, aged respectively 18 and 15. Appended is an article written by the former, and is of interest in drawing a contrast between the conditions of war in 1854 and those of the late war.
10
Brigadier-Gen. Lowry Cole fell in action at the Battle of Fromelles, May 9th, 1915.
11
General Bird commanded the 2nd Bn. Royal Irish Rifles, and was through the severe fighting of the Battle of the Aisne and the Retreat from Mons, where he was terribly wounded and lost his leg.
12
Lieut. W.F.E. Denison (Sherwood Foresters) served in the Great War, and fell mortally wounded in the last German advance near Cambrai on March 24th, 1918.
13
Civil and Military.
14
See page 29.
