) (2nd) [formerly 89th],
333, 358, 360, 363, 364.
Connaught Rangers (1st) [formerly 88th], 333, 353-356.
Princess Louise's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders) (1st) [formerly
91st], 247, 252-256, 259, 308, 318, 319, 330, 438, 441.
Royal Munster Fusiliers (1st) [formerly 101st], 43, 212, 215, 223,
226, 231, 232, 258, 308, 326, 386.
Royal Dublin Fusiliers (1st) [formerly 102nd], 333.
Royal Dublin Fusiliers (2nd) [formerly 103rd], 46, 123, 124, 127-129,
131, 132, 135, 139, 140, 143-145, 148, 149, 174, 175, 180, 262,
267, 268, 333, 353-356, 367.
Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) (1st), 333, 363, 370, 372.
Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) (2nd), 2, 175, 177.
Army Service Corps:--8, 23-25, 91, 211, 289, 404, 417-421, 437, 438.
Royal Army Medical Corps (includes Bearer companies, Field hospitals,
etc.):--25, 91, 134, 147, 148, 211, 215, 228, 242, 284, 289, 290,
292, 313-315, 327, 330, 333, 347, 349, 364-366, 374, 421, 437, 438.
Remount department, 19-23, 24, 27.
Rensburg, 280, 390, 391, 395, 399, 400, 407, 443.
Reserves:
necessity of announcement in Parliament before summoning, 6;
date of proclamation calling out, 6;
numbers who obeyed the call and were fit, 8;
value in the field of, 375;
supply of, furnished during war, 10;
inconvenience of Act requiring all classes A. B. C. to be exhausted
before D. was summoned, 12;
not numerous enough, 11;
number in 1899, in British Islands, 90;
great assistance rendered to army in field, 67, 11;
a real reserve for war, not a mere substitution, 90;
no delay caused by necessity for filling up ranks by, 115.
Retreat from Dundee. _See_ DUNDEE.
Rhenoster farm, 404.
Rhodes, The Right Hon. Cecil J., 17, 44.
Rhodesia, 16, 36, 39, 94, 409.
Rhodesian regiment. _See_ COLONIAL UNITS.
Ricardo, Lieut.-Col. P. R., 386.
Richardson, Colonel W. D., C.B., 417, 420, 422.
Richmond farm, 442.
Richmond road, 276.
Ridley, Colonel C. P., 433, 437.
Rietfontein, 142, 151-156, 172.
Riet River, 63, 243, 244, 246-248, 250, 251, 253, 256, 259, 260, 304,
378, 385, 387, 388, 430, 439, 441, 444.
Rifle Brigade (1st and 2nd). _See_ REGULAR UNITS.
Rimington, Major M. F., 220, 227, 246.
Rimington's Guides. _See_ COLONIAL UNITS.
Roberts, Field Marshal the Right Hon. F. S. Lord, V.C., K.P., G.C.B.,
G.C.S.