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REVISION OE KANE’S LIST. 
form a most valuable record of the bistory and varied services of tbe 
officers of the Royal Regiment of Artillery from its formation up to the 
present date, and must be of great use hereafter to all who are inter¬ 
ested in looking up military and family records. Of the more specially 
distinguished officers of the Regiment there will be, as before, more 
detailed biographical notices, and the book will contain other matters 
of interest, such as a table of relationship shewing the families who 
have contributed members to the Regiment, often for a succession of 
generations: also, as now, lists of the officers who have held the chief 
regimental appointments since their institution, lists of artillery trains, 
campaigns, and names of the officers commanding the artillery, lists of 
departmental officers connected with the Regiment, &c., &c. 
In the course of next year the Committee hope to have the MSS. of 
the revised Kane’s List ready for the printer, and they will then get an 
estimate of the cost of publication. 
Owing to the large amount of additional matter and to the ever in¬ 
creasing number of names which have to be added, the expense of 
publication must necessarily be considerably greater than that of 
previous editions, but it is most devoutly to be hoped that when the 
time for printing comes near, the officers of the Regiment will freely 
come forward and subscribe for copies of the book and thus make the 
speedy production of the revised Kane’s List a certainty. 
In a Regiment such as ours, and with such traditions, there ought to 
be no difficulty in getting together a sufficient number of subscribers 
to ensure the publication of the book at a moderate price, and thus we 
shall be able to show an appreciation and just acknowledgment of the 
labour of love of General Askwith and those who have helped him to¬ 
wards the building up of a regimental record which, I venture to think, 
will be quite unique. 
As I have already implied there is yet a lot of work to be done, and 
every day some fresh information comes in which is of value and has 
to be interpolated. General Askwith has had useful help from some 
of his contemporaries and other senior officers of the Regiment who, 
either themselves, or their fathers before them, have kept interesting 
records of facts as they happened. 
The priceless mass of information recently presented by Sir Colling- 
wood Dickson to the R.A. Institution, which was noted and recorded 
almost daily by his father, Sir Alexander Dickson and by himself, will, 
most certainly, tend to fill up many gaps in the records of officers’ ser¬ 
vices; and some of the original journals kept by Artillery officers on 
active service, which are perfectly reliable, give interesting little items 
of news which clear up disputed or doubtful points. As an example of 
such a journal might be cited a short MS. diary now in the possession 
of Captain F. M. Lowe, R.A., which was kept by Captain James Wood, 
R.A. (No. 209 in Kane), and deals with an interesting period, viz.: 
1756-1766. Capt. Wood served 10 years in India and was at the siege 
of Surat, 1759. Another valuable record is that of No. 1327, Captain 
William Swabey, R.A., who served at Waterloo and whose diary has 
been edited by the capable hand of Colonel F. A. Whinyates and is 
about to be published in the “ Proceedings.” 
