THE KOYAL ARTILLERY INSTITUTION. 
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When officers and men are alike called upon to perform the fatiguing 
duties which fell to the share of the Royal Artillery during the expedition, 
the individual exertions of each are doubly valued. The danger to which 
the credit of the Regiment must be exposed on service, so long as our 
batteries are under-manned is apparent. Without attempting to fix the 
establishment required for a mountain battery on service, I would call 
attention to the fact, that it has been absolutely necessary to procure men 
from the infantry to lead the battery mules when the difficulties of the road 
required that every mule should be led separately. 
Whilst the batteries were being organized at Zulla, a proportion of 
European drivers, volunteers from the 4th K. 0. Regiment, were attached 
to the batteries for the expedition, receiving gunners* pay; these men did 
excellent service and, from the first, took up their new work with admirable 
spirit. 
The European drivers attached were armed with the Snider carbine, with 
which also all the gunners of the battery were provided; this proved in no 
way inconvenient during the work of mounting and dismounting the guns 
or of working them in action. 
A comparison of the establishment with which “ B ” Battery left Addigerat 
on the 8th of March with that of the Mountain Battery of 5/25th R.A. 
despatched from Bengal for service, will serve as a guide in deciding how 
many men, &c. are required for a battery of mountain guns. The establish¬ 
ment of “ A ** Battery on leaving Antalo, differed little from that of “ B ” 
except in the number of native muleteers (grasscutters), those of “A” 
battery being double those of “ B ** in number. 
Establishment of “B 
1 Captain, 
4< Subalterns, 
1 Assistant-surgeon, 
2 Staff-Serjeants, 
6 Serjeants (including 1 armourer 
serjeant, 1 conductor of stores, 
68 rank and file, and artificers, 
29 European drivers 4th K. 0. 
26 Muleteers (native), 
6 Store Lascars, 
23 men of 4th K. 0. attached, wer 
Baggage Animals. 
Mules 
6 Officers baggage. 3 
a mess .. 1 
Baggage of 130 European soldiers ... 22 
n 38 natives .. 4 
Tents. 8 
Hospital . 3 
Carriage for sick... 3 
Rations for immediate use. 5 
Cooking pots and stores . 1 
Snider ammunition . 5 
Meat..... 1 
66 
24 
80 
Battery 5/21 st JR.A. 
March 8,1868. 
2 Cooks, 
4 Bhesties. 
Hospital Establishment. 
1 Bhestie, 
1 Dhobi, 
1 Wardboy, 
1 Sweeper, 
6 Doolie bearers, 
9 Officers grasscutters. 
available for baggage guards, &c. 
Battery Establishment. 
Officers’ horses. 9 
Ponies . 5 
Mules . 110 
One muleteer was provided with every three 
baggage mules. 
At Dildee the baggage animals were reduced 
to— 
Mules 
Carrying rations for 16 days . 35 
Snider ammunition. 5 
Cooking pots . 1 
Carriage for Sick . 3 
Hospital. 3 
47 
Grain (3000 lbs.) 
