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unpopular, recruits preferring any other corps, or even Militia, to joining the 
Eastern Division ; one wonders whether the fact of so many of the companies of 
this Division having been so many years at Gibraltar (some of them seven and 
over) has anything to do with it. 
The Mess Committee are endeavouring to obtain a complete series of photo¬ 
graphs or pictures of Officers Commanding Royal Artillery, Dover, since 1859 
(the date of building this block of Officers’ Quarters and Mess, and the separation 
of the ll.A. and R.E. Mess). Any contribution will be most thankfully received. 
IABSA. 
On the night of the 21st September Lord Roberts was entertained to a farewell 
dinner at Bonsard’s Hotel, Simla, by Royal Artillery officers. 
General H. Brackenburv, c.b., presided, and fifty other officers were present 
from all parts oi India. Telegrams expressive of regret at Lord Roberts's departure 
were received from all Artillery Messes in India. 
Owing to an unfortunate error in transmission the speeches cannot now be 
given, but doubtless many have read them in the Service papers. 
The dinner was a great success from first to last, and everything connected with 
it, attendance, speeches and applause, testify how deeply the Regiment in India 
feels the loss it suffers by Lord Roberts’s departure. 
OBITUARY. 
Lieut.-Colonel T. H. Lloyd, whose death occurred at Upper Norwood, on 
29th November, 1892, joined the Regiment as Lieutenant on 1st September, 
1862; became Captain, 8th September, 1875 ; Major, 1st October, 1882 ; and 
Lieut.-Colonel, 6th February, 1891. He passed through the Staff College in 
1878, and has held the following appointments, Brigade Major, R.A., Chatham 
District, from 1879 to 1881, Assistant-Quartermaster-General, District Staff 
Officer 1st Class, and Assistant-Adjutant-General for Bombay from 1886 to 
1891. He retired on retired pay on 9th November, 1892. 
Captain W. A. Watkins, who died at Waterford, on 9th December, 1892, was 
commissioned from the ranks as Lieutenant on 31st December, 1881, and 
became Captain, 24th May, 1889. 
