d Royal Fusiliers, Field Hospital.
Major-General Fitzroy Hart's Brigade--1st Connaught Rangers,
1st Royal Dublin Fusiliers, 1st Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers,
No. 10 Field Hospital Company, No. 16 Bearer Company, 2nd
Somerset Light Infantry, 1st Borderers, 2nd King's Royal
Rifles, 1st Gordon Highlanders, 7th, 14th, 64th, 66th, and 73rd
Batteries R.F.A., 12th Field Company R.E., Ammunition Column,
No. 3 Field Hospital.

IN CAPE COLONY (Lieut.-General Gatacre's Command).--1st Welsh
Regiment, 1st Royal Scots, 2nd Northumberland Fusiliers, 2nd
Royal Berkshire, 2nd Royal Irish Rifles, 1st Rifle Brigade, 1st
Royal Munster Fusiliers, 2nd Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry,
2nd Shropshire Light Infantry, 74th, 77th, and 79th Batteries
R.F.A., Two Station Hospitals.

CORPS TROOPS.--4th, 38th, 61st, 65th, and 78th Batteries
R.F.A., 4th Mountain Battery, 13th Hussars, 1st Telegraph
Division R.E., 10th Railway Company R.E., 26th Field Company
R.E., 1st Field Park R.E., Pontoon Troop R.E., Balloon Section
R.E., No. 5 Field Hospital.

UNATTACHED.--1st Suffolks, 1st Essex.

WITH GENERAL GATACRE

By the end of November two British forces were advancing from East
London by way of Queenstown to the Stormberg and Colesberg districts in
the north of Cape Colony. With General French's advance we must deal
anon: that of Major-General Sir W. F. Gatacre calls for immediate
attention. The General had under his command what was by courtesy termed
the 3rd Division, namely, 2nd Royal Irish Rifles, four companies of the
1st Royal Berkshire Regiment, a troop of the New South Wales Lancers,
some companies of Army Medical Corps, Field Hospital, and Volunteer
Mounted Infantry. The total was about 5000 men.

On the 28th of November he was reinforced by the 2nd Northumberland
Fusiliers. His force, as we see, was none too large, for he was
proceeding through country where it may be said that every hand was
either openly or stealthily turned against him. For strategical reasons,
and for the purpose of reassuring the British population, however,
General Gatacre had decided that some sort of advance must be made. He
reconnoitred in and around Molteno, and visited the outposts of
regulars, irregulars, and police, and ascertained to an almost pitiful
degree the slenderness of his resources should any strain occur.

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