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gunnery, having arrived at the rank of Major, he was posted to a Field Bat¬ 
tery, but immediately afterwards was ordered to proceed to the United States 
as British judge of weapons at the Centennial Exhibition. He served as member 
and secretary of the group of Judges of Awards in the War Section, and, under a 
special permit from the Commander-in-Chief of the United States Army, he 
visited nearly all the arsenals, magazines and manufacturing establishments of 
war material in that country. After a short leave of absence he was, in January, 
1877, ordered to proceed to India as member and acting-secretary of a Special 
Committee, appointed by Lord Salisbury, in connection with the reorganisation 
of the Ordnance Department of the Indian Army, including the manufacturing 
establishments of the three presidencies. He served with this Commission from 
February, 1876, to November, 1878, when, on the breaking out of the Afghan 
War, he was nominated Staff Officer of the siege train of the Candahar Field 
Force. He organised the train at Sukhan, and commanded it on its march across 
the Sind Desert and through the Bolan. In 1880 he was appointed to the com¬ 
mand of a Battery of Artillery at Woolwich until April, 1881, when he was 
nominated a member of the Ordnance Committee, that appointment being for 
three years. In April, 1884, he again returned to regimental duty as a Lieut. - 
Colonel, and in July, 1885, he was appointed Superintendent of the Boyal 
Gunpowder Factory at Waltham Abbey. Very large quantities of prismatic 
gunpowders (E.X.E. and S.B.C.) have been successfully made, both at Waltham 
Abbey and by contract, on his registered designs, and under the patent which, 
with the permission of the War Department, was granted to him in 1886. 
General Noble was the author of many works on military subjects, and the in¬ 
ventor of several scientific instruments relating to the manufacture of guns and 
gunpowder. His illness was due to an attack of cholera in the Afghan War, from 
the effects of which he never quite recovered. 
Lieutenant C. E. O’Leaey, R.A., who died at Srinagar, Kashmir, on 3rd May, 
1892, joined the Regiment on 5th July, 1884. 
