Captain J. McC. Maxwell has joined No. 2 Company; 2nd Lieutenant B. 
It. Brewin lias relieved 2nd Lieutenant W. E. Manley at Newhaven, the latter 
rejoining head-quarters. No. 17 Siege Train Company has returned from Lydd, 
leaving 2nd Lieutenant Boyd and 50 men there. Lieutenant Schlesinger, Kent 
Artillery, has joined the Depot vice Lieutenant Hassell relieved. 
A handsomely-mounted and framed photograph of General Sir Burke Cuppage, 
k.c.b., first Colonel on the Staff It.A. at Dover, has been presented to the Mess 
by Lieut.-Colonel Spencer Gardiner. Sir Burke Cuppage commanded the 
B.A. South-Eastern District from 1861-64, and his name will always be asso¬ 
ciated in Dover with the restoration of the ancient (probably most ancient in 
England) Church of St. Mary-within-the-Castle. 
Lieut.-General G. G. Pearse, c.b., Colonel-Commandant Boyal Horse Artillery, 
lias very kindly presented the Mess with a photograph of Major-General Gerrard 
Potter Eaton, who commanded the II.A. South-Eastern District from 1868-72, 
of whom General Pearse writes, “ a very good officer—of a very good family.” 
The Mess Committee are more than ever anxious to obtain portraits of Major- 
Generals Ormsby and Elwin, to complete the list. 
The B.A. Cricket Club Dover has not been successful up to date, they appear 
to be very good in the field and in the bowling, but are decidedly weak with the 
willow. 
The B.A. helped to line the streets on the occasion of H.B.H. the Prince of 
Wales’s visit to Dover to lay the memorial stone of the New East Pier on 20th 
July, and Colonel Lloyd and two officers B.A. received invitations to the luncheon 
in the Town Hall. 
The officers K.A. endeavoured to induce the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava to 
name a day anti dine with them, in his capacity as Constable of Dover Castle, 
when he was at home, but unfortunately he could not manage it, every afternoon 
and night he had engagements in London. 
OBITUARY. 
General Sir E. B. Hamley, k.c.b., k.c.m.g., Colonel-Commandant, whose 
death occurred in London, on I2tli August, 1893, joined the Begiment as 2nd 
Lieutenant, 11th January, 1843 ; became Lieutenant, 5th September, 1843 ; 2nd 
Captain, 14th May, 1850 ; Captain, 16th December, 1854; Brevet Major, 12th 
December, 1854 ; Brevet-Lieut.-Colonel, 2nd November, 1855 ; Brevet-Colonel, 
2nd November, 1863; Major-General, 17th May, 1869 ; Lieut.-General, 10th 
May, 1882 ; General, 30th July, 1890; and Colonel-Commandant, 7th Decem¬ 
ber, 1886. He served throughout the Crimean Campaign of 1854-55, was 
present at the alfairs of Bulganac and MTCenzie’s Earm, battles of Alma (horse 
shot), Balaclava, Inkerman (horse killed), siege and fall of Sebastopol. (Des¬ 
patches, London Gazette , 12th November and 2nd December, 1854, 26th January, 
and 2nd November, 1855, medal with four clasps, Brevets of Major and Lieut.- 
Colonel, Knight of the Legion of Honour, 2nd Class of Medjidie, Sardinian and 
Turkish medals, and c.b.) Egyptian Expedition, 1882, commanded 2nd Division, 
and was present at the battle of Tel-el-Kebir. (Despatches, London Gazette , 6 th 
October and 2nd November, 1882. Thanked by Houses of Parliament, medal 
with clasp, bronze star, 2nd Class Osmanieh, k.c.b.) He was Commandant 
Staff College from 1st July, 1870, to 31st December, 1877, and was a Member 
• of the Council of Military Education from 1st April, 1866, to 31st March, 1870. 
