from that time the mobilisation
of four more divisions, fifteen extra batteries of artillery and a
fourth cavalry brigade, was ordered.[7]

[Footnote 7: The following extract from the Statement of the
Mobilisation division gives the details and dates:--

"21. While the embarkation of the field force was proceeding,
news of the loss of the greater part of two battalions of
infantry and a mountain battery at Nicholson's Nek reached
England. Orders were accordingly given on 31st October for
the despatch of one mountain battery and three battalions of
infantry, to make good this loss. All this reinforcement went
from England, except one battalion. The embarkation from
England was finished on 16th November.

"22. On 3rd November it was decided to organise and send out
a siege train. It embarked on 9th December.

"23. Orders for the mobilisation of a 5th infantry division
(the troops under Sir G. White, in Ladysmith, being counted
as the 4th division) were issued on 11th November. An extra
brigade division of artillery (three batteries horse
artillery) was added on 20th November.

"The embarkation of this 5th division began on 24th November,
and was completed on 13th December. That of the three
batteries horse artillery took place between 19th and 21st
December.

"24. Orders were given for the mobilisation of a 6th infantry
division on 2nd December, _i.e._, as soon as the embarkation
of the 5th division was well under way. Mobilisation began on
4th December, and was completed by 11th December. All
combatant units were embarked between 16th December and 1st
January, 1900.

"25. The order to mobilise the 7th infantry division was
issued on 16th December. Mobilisation began on the 18th, and
was completed on 27th December.

"Embarkation began on 3rd January, and was completed on 18th
January.

"26. Meanwhile, on 16th and 22nd December, it had been
decided to mobilise and prepare for embarkation four
additional brigade divisions (twelve batteries) of field
artillery, one brigade division being armed with howitzers.
These were all embarked between 21st January and 27th
January, 1900.