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heads of the infantry till they were within about 200 feet of the top— 
so steep was the ascent. After the action the Battery returned to 
camp and two days later marched to Rustam at the mouth of the 
Ambeyla Pass, through which it was proposed to bring. out from 
Buner, the force that had gone in over the Tangi Pass. Nothing 
further happened, and on the 17th January the Battery was sent to 
Nowshera to await the breaking up of the force—eventually reaching 
Rawal Pindi by route march on the 29th January, after an absence of 
nearly six months. 
The lecturer concluded by giving a resume of the casualties that 
befel the Battery, and by describing briefly the equipment. 
CASUALTIES. 
Men. 
Total sent to Base Hospital . 23 
Of whom 5 were sent back to front and 3 were invalided home. 
Deaths : — 
Heat apoplexy . 2 
Drowning . 2 
Enteric fever . 1 
Total . 5 
Horses. 
Deaths :— 
Heat apoplexy . 11 
Accident and disease . 6 
Total . 17 
The Battery was equipped with pole draught No swingletrees 
were used. Nos. 4 and 5 always rode on off lead and centre horses. 
Carriages were of Mark II. pattern with drag shoe firing brakes. At 
the Tangi Pass the buffers and volute springs did not work well owing 
probably to the high angle of elevation at which the guns were firing. 
Case shot were found to be too weak to stand rough travelling. Black 
powder was employed. The limbers were of an experimental kind, 
Q-pr. converted to 12-pr. for pole draught. 
2 axle-trees on limber were broken. 
Wheels of gun carriages were of No. 42 pattern. Limbers No. 36 
pattern. 7 felloes were broken (mostly across bosom). 
I slip felloe was used, and it lasted several months. 
13 slip spokes were put in. All the ammunition boxes were greatly 
damaged. 20 new ones were supplied on returning to Rawal Pindi 
and 16 were repaired. 
The lecturer expressed his thanks to Captain Ballard, R.F.A. for 
the use of his diary,* to L ieut.-Colonel C. A. Anderson for the greater 
*R.AJ. « Proceedings,” Vol. XXV., Ko. 8, ‘‘The Diary of the 10th Field « attery, R.A., with 
he Malakand Field Force.” By Lieutenant C. X. B. Ballard, E.A. 
