Rawalpindi Parade 1905

The Rawalpindi Parade 1905 was a parade by the British Indian Army held in Rawalpindi, India 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.^[1]

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
- F Battery
- I Battery
- J Battery
- T Battery^[1]

1st Cavalry Brigade - Brigadier General Robert Bellew Adams V.C.
- 22nd Sam Browne's Cavalry
- 23rd Cavalry
- Queens Own Corp of Guides Cavalry^[1]

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^[1]

Royal Artillery Brigadier-General J.A. Coxhead
Royal Field Artillery
1st Brigade
- 13th Battery
- 67th Battery
- 69th Battery^[1]

39th Brigade
- 46th Battery
- 51st Battery
- 54th Battery^[1]

45th Brigade
- 11th Battery
- 52nd Battery
- 80th Battery^[1]

Royal Garrison Artillery
Mountain Division
- 5th Mountain Battery
- 6th Mountain Battery
- 8th Mountain Battery
- 21st Mountain Battery
- 22nd Mountain Battery
- 24th Mountain Battery
- 26th Mountain Battery
- 27th Mountain Battery
- 28th Mountain Battery^[1]

Royal Garrison Artillery
- 71st Company (Heavies)
- 104th Company (Heavies)^[1]

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^[1]

Telegraph Section, 1st S & M
- 2nd S & P
- 3rd S & M^[1]

Telephone Section 1st S & P^[1]

1st (Peshawar) Division Lieutent General Sir, E. Barrow
- 1st Seaforth Highlanders
- 2nd Gordon Highlanders
- 36th Sikhs
- 38th Dogras^[1]

2nd (Nowshera) Infantry Brigade - Brigadier General Sir J. Willcocks

3rd (Frontier) Infantry Brigade - Colonel Fenton Aylmer, V.C.
- 52nd Sikhs
- 53rd Sikhs
- 59th Scinde Rifles
- Queens Own Corps of Guides^[1]

Divisional Battalion
- 4th Prince Albert Victor's Rajputs^[1]

2nd (Rawalpindi) Division Major General. J.H. Wodehouse
5th (Jhelum) Infantry Brigade - Colonel. H.B. Watkis

6th (Abbottabad) Infantry Brigade - Major General J.B. Woon
- 1st 5th Gurkha Rifles
- 2nd 5th Gurkha Rifles
- 1st 6th Gurkha Rifles
- 2nd 6th Gurkha Rifles^[1]

4th (Rawalpindi) Infantry Brigade - Colonel. C.W. Park
- 1st The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
- 1st Royal Irish Regiment
- 1st Royal Munster Fusiliers
- 2nd Royal Irish Fusiliers^[1]

Divisional Battalion
- 23rd Pioneers^[1]

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
- 1st Dorsetshire Regiment
- 14th Ferozepore Sikhs
- 15th Ludhiana Sikhs
- 19th Punjabis^[1]

9th (Baklok) Infantry Brigade - Brigadier General J.A Pollock
- 1st 1st Gurkha Rifles (The Maluan Regt)
- 2nd 1st Gurkha Rifles (The Maluan Regt)
- 1st 4th Gurkha Rifles
- 2nd 4th Gurkha Rifles
Divisional Battalion
- 34th Sikh Pioneers^[1]

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
- 2nd King's Royal Rifles
- 1st Royal Irish Rifles
- 1st 2nd Prince of Wales Own Gurkha Rifles
- 2nd 2nd Prince of Wales Own Gurkha Rifles^[1]

10th (Sirkind) Infantry Brigade - Major General R.A.P. Clements
- 1st Royal Sussex Regiment
- 1st Gloucestershire Regiment
- 2nd North Staffordshire Regiment
- 1st Wiltshire Regiment^[1]

Divisional Battalion
- 32nd Sikh Pioneers^[1]

References[]

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Abbott, George Frederick (2009). Through India With the Prince (1906). Kessinger. ISBN 1-104-92594-X.

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