ANNUAL REPORT, 1897-8. 
279 
Several minor changes and improvements have been made in tlio 
printing office and the Committee hope that there is improvement in 
the work turned out. 
The number of officers in the Regiment and the variety of appoint¬ 
ments they hold have become so many that great difficulty is 
experienced in printing the regimental lists; the recent enlargement 
of them has made the work a little easier, but it will take most care¬ 
ful attention for some months before a satisfactory result is obtained; 
the Committee take this opportunity to thank those members who 
so kindly help by a monthly inspection and report to the Secretary 
of errors found in the lists. 
The subscription list for the f History of the Dress of the Royal 
Artillery J has been filled; a few numbers of the edition which were 
not subscribed for have been taken up by the Committee and will be 
available for issue at the original rate to young officers joining from 
the R.M. A. Terms for reproduction have been made with the famous 
firm of Goupil & C ie , who will furnish first proof copies for guarantors, 
ordinary copies for subscribers and a certain number of loose copies of 
the colour plates wdiich will be on sale at the same price (£1 Is.) as 
the book to non-subscribers but available for purchase by guarantors 
and subscribers at a largely reduced price. The books will be sent 
out free of charge to every guarantor and subscriber as soon as possible. 
The work of preparing the new edition of Kane^s List is practically 
complete and printing will proceed forthwith ; when ready for issue the 
Committee will announce the price at which each copy will be sold; 
this will be small in the hope that nearly every officer in the Regiment 
will buy one and because, as mentioned at the last Annual General 
Meeting, it is felt that Kane^s List is an object on which to spend the 
funds of the Institution. 
The number of deaths in the past year has been very large and 
includes the names of the following officers : — 
Generals W. H. Askwith, Col.-Commdt., Sir R, Cadell, K.C.B. 
Col.-Commdt., W. D. Aitken, Col.-Commdt., and Sir H. L. Gardiner 
K. C.Y.O., C.B., Col.-Commdt., Lieut.-General G. Leslie, Col.- 
Commdt., Major-Generals Sir G. Bourchier, K.C.B., R. H. Crofton, 
C. H. Smith, C.B., Hon. G. T. Devereux, G. J. Smart, IP. Beding- 
feld, D. G. Anderson, G. Maister, H. Hammond, and A. G. Yeatman- 
Biggs, C.B., Colonels H. C. S. Dyer, S. C. Kyle, A. E. Garnault, 
L. W. Taylor, and H. C. Lyle, Lt.-Cols. J. F. Harman, R. C. E. North, 
and R. A. C. King, Majors E. Cassan, R. D. Loudon, and E. A. Smith, 
Captains J. R. C. Sclater, A. M. C. Dale, J. F. Browne,“(killed in 
action), H. J. H. Winwood, M. II. B. Raby, T. M. Dickinson, C. E. 
Rolt, F. R. Me C. de Butts (killed in action), C. A. Molony (killed in 
action), aud W. Shipman, Lieutenants L. L. Harper, A. T. Crawford 
(killed in action), H. D. Hammond (from wounds received in action), 
H. A. Cruickshank (killed in action); S. V. Schofield; and 2nd 
Lieutenant F. T. Ord. i 4 ' n 
The greater number of these were well known to most, but by 
the deaths of Generals Askwith and Sir L. Gardiner the Regiment 
Regimental 
Lists, 
History of 
the Dress of 
the Royal 
Artillery. 
Kane’s List 
Deaths, 
