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of the first division of the Naval Brigade, 5 officers and 53 non-
commissioned officers and men; the 19th Hussars, 9 officers, 121
non-commissioned officers and men; the Heavy Camel Regiment,
24 officers, 376 non-commissioned officers and men; Mounted
Infantry Camel Regiment, 21 officers, 336 non-commissioned
officers and men; Royal Artillery, 4 officers, 39 non-commissioned
officers and men; Royal Sussex Regiment, 16 officers, 401 non-
commissioned officers and men; Essex Regiment, 3 officers, 55 non-commissioned officers and men; commissariat and transport,
5 officers, 72 non-commissioned officers and men; medical staff,
3 officers, 50 non-commissioned officers and men. In addition to
these there were 304 natives, 2228 camels, and 155 horses.
Colonel Stanley Clarke's convoy (with Adjutant-captain Paget of
the 7th Hussars), en route for Gakdul, consisted of 10 officers and
706 men of the Light Camel Regiment and 11 20 camels. At the wells at Howeiyat were 3 officers, 30 men, and 33 camels of the Mounted Infantry Camel Regiment, and at Gakdul,
19 officers and 365 men of the Guards' Camel Regiment, 2 officers
and 25 men of the royal engineers, and i officer and 10 men of the
medical staffi
The Guards' Camel Regiment was composed of selected men
from the three regiments of guards and the royal marines, with
Lieutenant-colonel the Honourable E. E. T. Boscawen of the
Coldstream Guards in command, and as adjutant, Lieutenant C.
Crutchley of the Scots Guards.
The heavies comprised selected men from the three household
and seven other cavalry regiments, commanded by Lieutenant-
colonel the Honourable R. A. J. Talbot of the ist Life Guards,
and Adjutant -captain Lord St. Vincent, i6th Lancers. The Mounted Infantry Camel Regiment, composed of selected men
from various resfiments, most of whom had served with the mounted
infantry in South Africa or Egypt, was commanded by Major the
Honourable G. H. Gough, 14th Hussars. It may be mentioned
here that the detachment of the Essex Regiment was left at
Howeiyat and the mounted infantry went on with Sir Herbert
Stewart's column. On the arrival of the column at Gakdul the