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existence special interest attached to the occasion. The D.-A.-G. addressed 
the battery as follows : 
“Major LLoyd, Officers, N.-C. Officers and men of the 52nd Field Battery, it 
was with much pleasure that I accepted Major LLoyd’s invitation to come down 
here to-day to present this cup. In instituting it there were two motives; one 
being to do honour to the memory of a great and gallant soldier of the Royal 
Artillery, whose centenary as first Deputy-Adjutant-General of the Royal Artillery 
we celebrate this year, and who above all others was instrumental in raising our 
regiment to a position of greater importance and efficiency than it had ever occupied 
before. A short history of Lieut-General Sir John Macleod is contained in a parch- 
ment scroll in the plinth of the cup. The other motive was to mark every sense of 
the importance of excellence in shooting. ‘To secure such excellence as you had 
attained you have need of officers who knew their work and did it and N.-C.0.’s 
and men yielding a cheerful and ready obedience. Further than this you must all 
from your training have acquired a knowledge of the necessity for that co-operation 
which is the very essence of successful warfare from the largest to the smallest 
operation, and you must have been taught to realize the importance of correctness 
in details, the omission of which is fatal to success. Some may say that you 
were lucky in winning this cup, I cannot think so, for your history for the past 
three years shows that every year you attained a high figure of merit, and long 
continued excellence must sooner or later take the first place—just as in cricket a 
first-class bat may go out fora duck’s egg, but at the end of the season his 
average will be a high one. Your average has been high and this year you have 
again come out with the top score. 
You will, I am sure, agree with me that you owe much of your success to the 
energy and ability of your Commanding Officer, and in a less degree to the Officers 
and N.-C.O.’s of the battery who have so well supported him. 
The history of this battery is remarkable and distinquished—raised in 1817 as 
the Indian “ Rocket” Troop it became in 1818 the 7th Troop of Bengal Horse 
Artillery and remained a Horse Artillery Battery in the East India Company’s 
Service and in the Royal Artillery till 1887, when it was converted into a Field 
Battery as T/2nd Brigade and afterwards as 52nd Field Battery. The war services 
of the Battery are numerous and important and include the following campaigns 
and battles, viz. : 
Siege of Hattrass, 1817. 
lst Burmese War, 1824. 
Siege of Bhurtpore, 1825-6. 
Afghanistan—Siege of Ghuznee, occupation of Cabul, 1839. 
Gwalior Campaign—Battle of Maharagpore, 1843. 
Sutley Campaign—Battles of Aliwal and Sobraon, 1846. 
Punjab Campaign—Battle of Chillianwallah, 1849. 
3 Be A Goojerat, 1849. 
Indian Mutiny, 1857-8. 
N.W. Frontier, 1868. 
. Such a record, must, inspire a strong feeling of pride in you all, and I cannot 
-doubt that if im the future this battery is called on for active service in the field it 
will not be unmindful of the glorious services in which it took part in past years. 
I have the greatest pleasure in congratulating Major LLoyd and the whole 
‘battery on their success in being the first to win the Centenary Cup.” 
Major LLoyd having briefly thanked the D.-A.-G. on behalf of the battery, the 
proceedings terminated. 
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