202 “ The Wiltshire Regiment for Wiltshire.” 
of the regiment has received and merits his Excellency’s most 
cordial approval. The very heavy fire by which the regiment was 
assailed, and its steady devoted gailantry under the storm, are best 
attested by the fact of which his Excellency was an eyewitness, of 
the space in front of and close to the enemy’s battery, having been 
thickly strewed with the bodies of brave officers and soldiers who 
fell in the assault. The Commander in Chief finds that seventeen 
officers and one hundred and eighty-five men fell on this occasion.” 
But though the left of the army were thus checked by the murder- 
ous fire and the difficult nature of the ground, some of the right 
managed to rush within the Sikh lines, and darkness fell on the 
combatants mingled in a struggle of life and death, a ghastly 
assemblage. The Sikhs were still unconquered, with thirty thousand 
fresh troops not far off. But nothing further could be attempted till 
the morrow. “Itis my duty to tell you,” said Gough to Harding, 
“that the army is in a critical position. What do you recommend 
to be done?” “ Wait till daylight, attack the enemy vigorously, 
beat him, or die on the field’ “ Agreed,” said Gough, and they 
parted. In the morning the Commander in Chief finding the Sikh 
guns overwhelming, ordered a bayonet charge. They won; and 
so ‘ Ferozeshah” was written on the colours of the Wiltshire 
Regiment. 
London Gazette. February 23rd, 1846 :— 
1846. Dec. 21st and 22nd. 
‘ FEROZzESHAH. 
4th Infantry Diy., 7th Brig. 
62nd. Captain G. H. Clarke; killed, Captain H. Wells, ditto, Lieut. T. K, 
Scott, ditto; Lieut. W. Me.’ Nair, ditto; Lieut. R. Gubbing, ditto; Lieut. M, 
Kelly, ditto; Lieut. & Adjutant G. Sims, ditto. Major W. T. Shortt, slightly 
wounded ; Captain W. 8. Graves, badly ditto; Capt. C. W. Sibley, ditto; Capt. 
D. G. A. Darroch, slightly ditto; Lieut. M. J. Gregorson badly ditto; Lieut. 
W. L. Ingall, slightly ditto; Lieut. A. 8S. Craig, severely ditto; Ensign C, 
Roberts, ditto; Ensign J. M. M. Hewett, slightly ditto. 
Seven officers, six sergeants, seventy-six rank and file, one officer’s charger 
killed. Ten officers, five sergeants, two drummers, one hundred and fifty- 
four rank and file wounded. 
December 25th, 1845.” 
London Gazette. April 3rd, 1846 :— 
“ War Office, 3rd April, 1846. . 
-Further list of non-eommisioned officers, drummers, and privates killedin « — 
