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The Rawalpindi Parade 1905 was a parade by the
British Indian Army held in
Rawalpindi on 8 December 1905 to honour the
Prince and
Princess of Wales. The troops were under the Command of
Horatio Herbert, Viscount Kitchener of Khartoum, G.C.B., O.M., G.C.M.G.,
Commander-in-Chief India. The Royal party arrived at the parade ground escorted by a Field Officer's escort of
1st Skinner's Horse. They then received a
Royal salute and inspected the troops, accompanied by the Commander-in-chief. On conclusion of the inspection, the troops on parade marched past in the following order.
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Order of the march past
- Viscount Kitchener of Khartoum, Commander-in-Chief India
-
Major General
Douglas Haig, Inspector-General of Cavalry in India
- 1st (Peshawar) Infantry Brigade - Major General
C. H. Des Voeux
-
Royal Horse Artillery
- 1st Cavalry Brigade - Brigadier General
Robert Bellew Adams V.C.
- 2nd Cavalry Brigade - Colonel
F.S. Garratt
- 3rd Cavalry Brigade - Colonel
A. Phayre
- 4th Cavalry Brigade - Brigadier General
B.T. Mahon
- Divisional Cavalry Regiments
- Mounted Infantry
- No. 1 Company
- No. 2 Company
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-
Royal Artillery Brigadier-General
J.A. Coxhead
-
Royal Field Artillery
- 1st Brigade
- 13th Battery
- 67th Battery
- 69th Battery
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- 39th Brigade
- 46th Battery
- 51st Battery
- 54th Battery
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- 45th Brigade
- 11th Battery
- 52nd Battery
- 80th Battery
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-
Royal Garrison Artillery
- Mountain Division
- Royal Garrison Artillery
- 71st Company (Heavies)
- 104th Company (Heavies)
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- Sappers and Miners Colonel
A.E. Sandbach
- 1 Company, 1st Sappers and Miners
- 2 Company, 1st Sappers and Miners
- 4 Company, 1st Sappers and Miners
- 5 Company, 1st Sappers and Miners
- 9 Company, 1st Sappers and Miners
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- Telegraph Section, 1st S & M
- Telephone Section 1st S & P
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-
1st (Peshawar) Division Lieutent General Sir,
E. Barrow
- 2nd (Nowshera) Infantry Brigade - Brigadier General Sir
James Willcocks
- 3rd (Frontier) Infantry Brigade - Colonel
Fenton Aylmer, V.C.
- Divisional Battalion
-
2nd (Rawalpindi) Division Major General.
J.H. Wodehouse
- 5th (Jhelum) Infantry Brigade - Colonel.
Henry Buckley Burton Watkis
- 6th (Abbottabad) Infantry Brigade - Major General
John Blaxell Woon
- 4th (Rawalpindi) Infantry Brigade - Colonel.
C.W. Park
- Divisional Battalion
-
3rd (Lahore) Division Major General
Walter Kitchener
- 7th (Mian Mir) Infantry Brigade - Colonel
W. Du Gray
- 8th (Ferozepore) Infantry Brigade - Brigadier General
H.A. Abbott
- 9th (Baklok) Infantry Brigade - Brigadier General
J.A Pollock
- Divisional Battalion
-
4th (Quetta) Division Major General Sir
O'Moore Creagh. V.C.
- 11th (Derajat) Infantry Brigade - Colonel
C.A. Anderson
- 12 (Garwhal) Infantry Brigade - Major General
A.C.F. Browne
- 10th (Sirkind) Infantry Brigade - Major General
R.A.P. Clements
- Divisional Battalion
References
- Abbott, George Frederick (2009). Through India With the Prince (1906). Kessinger.
ISBN
1-104-92594-X.