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ON THE REVISION OF KANE’S LIST OF OFFICERS 
ROYAL ARTILLERY. 
BY 
LIEUT.-COLONEL J. C. DALTON (h.p.), R.A. 
As one of the Sub-Committee appointed by the Committee R.A. Insti¬ 
tution to consider the best means of editing and preparing for press 
the vast amount of information collected by General Askwith, R.A., 
for the revision of Kane’s List of the Officers of the Regiment, it will, 
I think, be interesting to my brother officers to know what is being 
done in the matter. 
As is already known, General Askwith has most kindly placed all 
his notes at the disposal of the Institution, and he is still hard at work 
completing and further elaborating them. The Sub-Committee having 
received a small “ grant in aid” from the Committee of the Institution 
to meet current expenses, have engaged the services of a copying clerk, 
who is now at work making a fair copy from General Askwith’s orig¬ 
inals of all the notes which he has collected with regard to the officers 
whose names appear in Kane. We have drawn up a list of abbrevia¬ 
tions, which will greatly shorten the amount to be printed and will 
ensure, as far as possible, uniformity in style. The original Kane’s 
List numbers are to be held as sacred, and in cases where new names 
which have been accidentally omitted from Kane have to be interpo¬ 
lated, they will be given the number of the name immediately preced¬ 
ing their position on the Seniority list, and will be distinguished by 
letters a , 6, c, &c. Thus, it wfill be quite safe when referring to officers 
of the Regiment for purposes of identification (as is done, I think, in 
our Photograph Albums in the R.A. Mess, Woolwich), to quote the 
Kane’s List number, which has in fact become the officers’ regimental 
number ! The new Kane’s List will eventually be in the same style as 
the present one, though possibly slightly larger; the columns containing 
dates of commissions will be brought up to date, and the information in 
the column of ec Remarks ” will be considerably amplified, thanks to 
the patriotic exertions of General Askwith and of some others who have 
assisted him with their notes. In addition to the biographical and 
other notes in the column of Remarks in the present Kane’s List, there 
will be inserted in an abbreviated form each officer’s colonial and war 
services, decorations and distinctions, and such staff appointments as 
he may have held. Thus, as can readily be seen, the new Kane will 
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