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On this occasion the gallery of pictures by officers It.A. was lighted up for the 
first time, and attracted so many visitors that the room seemed hardly large 
enough. 
The lecture by Captain Orde Browne on the 14th December, open to officers of 
the Army and Navy only, was followed by an interesting discussion on the 
“Directions for the Attack of Armoured Ships by Coast Batteries,” and some 
valuable remarks were made by Admiral Sir R. Yesey Hamilton, k.c.b., Captain 
King Hall, R.N., and Commander Honner, R.N. Some of the naval officers 
from Greenwich dined afterwards at Mess. 
On Wednesday, 13th December, there was an Assault-at-Arms at the Royal 
Military Academy. One noticeable point was its difference from similar functions 
of former years, when the whole show was confined to some dozen or twenty 
picked performers ; on this occasion nearly every cadet took part either in sword 
exercise, free marching, bar bell exercise, or Balaklava melee. All concerned are 
to be congratulated on its passing off without a hitch. 
On the 15th December, the Evening Party at the Mess was a greater success 
than any for some years’ past. A great many officers came from out-stations, 
and for once there w r ere more dancing men than ladies present; supper was 
arranged on small tables in the smoking-room, and as a cotillon began at the 
hour of opening the supper-room all crowding was avoided. 
General A. H. King, c.b., dined as a Mess guest on the 21st December, and 
nowhere is his enforced retirement more sincerely regretted than here. A further 
loss we have to sustain is that of General Nicolls, who resigns the command of 
the Woolwich District in order that he may winter in a warm climate ; all here 
hope that he will soon be restored to health and strength. 
OBITUARY, 
Major-General C. H. Ingilby, c.b. (retired), died at Spennithorne, Bedale, 
on 13th December, 1893. He joined the Regiment as 2nd Lieutenant, 16th 
December, 1846; became Lieutenant, 30th June, 1848; 2nd Captain, 20th June, 
1854; Captain, 3rd January, 1859; Brevet-Major, 12th December, 1854; 
Brevet-Lieut.-Colonel, 9th November, 1862; Colonel, 17th December, 1875 ; 
and retired with honorary rank of Major-General, 19tli February, 1884. Major- 
General Ingilby served throughout the Crimean War, and was present at the 
affairs of Bulganac and MTvenzie’s Farm, battles of Alma, Balaklava, and Inker- 
man (severely wounded), and siege of Sevastopol, including repulse of sortie of 
26th October, 1854. (Mentioned in despatches, medal with four clasps, Sardinian 
and Turkish medals, 5th Class of Medjidie, brevet of Major). 
Lieutenant A. C. Tulloch, whose death occurred at Myingyan, Burma, on 
13th December, 1893, was commissioned as Lieutenant, 17th February, 1886. 
At the time of his death he was in command of guns in the Chin Hills. 
