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EXPERIENCES OE THE 10th FIELD BATTERY, R. A. 
IN THE 
MALAKAND & BUNERWAL EXPEDITIONS 
BY 
LIEUTENANT E. F. DELAFORCE, R.F.A. 
(A brief resume of a Lecture delivered at the B.A. Institution, on Thursday , 9th March, 1899.) 
Colonel R. Corbett, R.A., in the chair. 
I N August, 1897, after the relief of Malakand and Chakdara, a 
force called the Malakand Field Force, consisting of 3 Brigades 
and Divisional Troops (more or less an Indian Division of all arms) 
was sent to punish the tribes concerned in the attack on the two above 
mentioned posts. 
The force was commanded by Major-General Sir Bindon Blood, 
K.C.B., and Colonels Meiklejohn, Jeffreys, and Woodhouse, commanded 
the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Brigades respectively. The Artillery employed 
with the force consisted of the 10th Field Battery, Nos. 1 and 7 British 
Mountain Batteries and No. 8 Bengal Mountain Battery. 
The lecturer began by describing the events of the 2nd August, 
1897, when the Battery was ordered to mobilize and to start at once 
for the Malakand—the hurried preparations, the sorting, packing, and 
storing of kits, the inspections of ammunition and horses—and lastly, 
the entraining, at midnight, for the base of operations. 
The strength of the Battery leaving Rawal Pindi was as follows : — 
5 Officers. 
146 N.C.O.’s and men. 
9 Native Drivers. 
58 Native Followers. 
134 Horses. 
The names of the officers were: — 
Major C. A. Anderson. 
Captain L. Forde. 
Lieutenant C. N. B. Ballard. 
„ E. F. Delafcrce. 
2nd Lieutenant E. H. Collen. 
Next the onward journey of the Battery was described at each stage 
of its march. The troubles and hardships began almost at once ; at 
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