-- --
Royal Engineers 12 325 70 -- -- -- -- -- --
Infantry (3 brigades) 297 10,672 551 -- -- -- -- -- 12
Armed Service Corps
and Royal Army 32 600 431 -- -- -- -- -- --
Medical Corps

Total 475 14,489 3,723 1 4 4 18 6 16

SUMMARY OF BRITISH CASUALTIES.

Ranks. Killed. Wounded. Missing. Total.

Officers 22 46 1 69
Other ranks 188 629 62 879
948

SUMMARY OF AMMUNITION EXPENDED.

Description of Guns, &c.
Howitzers. Field Guns. Machine. Lee-Metford
.303.
Rounds 402 4,189 18,487 321,782

COLENSO, 15th DECEMBER, 1899.

CHAPTER XXII.

APPROXIMATE STRENGTH OF THE TROOPS ENGAGED.

Guns.
Arms. Officers. Other Horses Naval. Field Machine.
Ranks. (Riding 15-pr.
and 4.7in. 12-pr.
Draught).

The Naval Brigade 31 279 6 2 12 -- --
Natal Army Staff 34 137 123 -- -- -- --
Mounted troops 126 2,561 2,700 -- -- -- 2
Royal Artillery 39 1,074 869 -- -- 30 --
Royal Engineers 14 419 255 -- -- -- --
Infantry
(4 brigades) 416 13,521 716 -- -- -- 16
Army Service Corps 16 217 550 -- -- -- --
Royal Army Medical
Corps 30 464 336 -- -- -- --

Total 706 18,672 5,555 2 12 30 18

SUMMARY OF BRITISH CASUALTIES.

Ranks. Killed. Wounded. Missing. Total.

Officers 7 47 20 74
Other ranks 136 709 220 1,065
1,139

NAVAL AMMUNITION EXPENDED.
Rounds.
4.7-inch