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of the first division of the Naval Brigade, 5 officers and 53 noncommissioned 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 noncommissioned 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 1 1 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 1 officer and 10 men of the medical staff.

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 Lieutenantcolonel the Honourable R. A. J. Talbot of the 1st Life Guards, and Adjutant-captain Lord St. Vincent, 16th Lancers. The Mounted Infantry Camel Regiment, composed of selected men from various regiments, 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