Rawalpindi Parade 1905

The Rawalpindi Parade 1905 was a parade by the British Indian Army held in Rawalpindi, India on 8 December 1905 to honour the Prince and Princess of Wales. The troops were under the Command of Horatio Herbert, Viscount Kitchener of Khartoum, G.C.B., O.M., G.C.M.G., Commander-in-Chief India. The Royal party arrived at the parade ground escorted by a Field Officer's escort of 1st Skinner's Horse. They then received a Royal salute and inspected the troops, accompanied by the Commander-in-chief. On conclusion of the inspection, the troops on parade marched past in the following order.

Order of the March past

• Viscount Kitchener of Khartoum, Commander-in-Chief India
• Major General Douglas Haig, Inspector-General of Cavalry in India
• 1st (Peshawar) Infantry Brigade - Major General C. H. Des Voeux
• Royal Horse Artillery
  • F Battery
  • I Battery
  • J Battery
  • T Battery

• 1st Cavalry Brigade - Brigadier General Robert Bellew Adams V.C.
  • 22nd Sam Browne's Cavalry
  • 23rd Cavalry
  • Queens Own Corp of Guides Cavalry

• 2nd Cavalry Brigade - Colonel F.S. Garratt
  • 12th Royal Lancers
  • 8th Cavalry
  • 9th Hodson's Horse

• 3rd Cavalry Brigade - Colonel A. Phayre
  • 9th Queen's Royal Lancers
  • 7th Hariana Lancers
  • 11th Prince of Wales Own Lancers

• 4th Cavalry Brigade - Brigadier General B.T. Mahon
  • 3rd The King's Own Hussars
  • 13th Duke of Connaught's Lancers
  • 15th Lancers (Cureton's Multanis)

• Divisional Cavalry Regiments
  • 19th Lancers (Fane's Horse)
  • 1st Duke of York's Own Lancers
  • 25th Cavalry
  • 12th Cavalry

• Mounted Infantry
  • No. 1 Company
  • No. 2 Company

• Royal Artillery Brigadier-General J.A. Coxhead
• Royal Field Artillery
• 1st Brigade
  • 13th Battery
  • 67th Battery
  • 69th Battery

• 39th Brigade
  • 46th Battery
  • 51st Battery
  • 54th Battery

• 45th Brigade
  • 11th Battery
  • 52nd Battery
  • 80th Battery

• Royal Garrison Artillery
• Mountain Division
  • 5th Mountain Battery
  • 6th Mountain Battery
  • 8th Mountain Battery
  • 21st Mountain Battery
  • 22nd Mountain Battery
  • 24th Mountain Battery
  • 26th Mountain Battery
  • 27th Mountain Battery
  • 28th Mountain Battery

• Royal Garrison Artillery
  • 71st Company (Heavies)
  • 104th Company (Heavies)

• Sappers and Miners Colonel A.E. Sandbach
  • 1 Company, 1st Sappers and Miners
  • 2 Company, 1st Sappers and Miners
  • 4 Company, 1st Sappers and Miners
  • 5 Company, 1st Sappers and Miners
  • 9 Company, 1st Sappers and Miners

• Telegraph Section, 1st S & M
  • 2nd S & P
  • 3rd S & M

• Telephone Section 1st S & P

• 1st (Peshawar) Division Lieutent General Sir, E. Barrow
  • 1st Seaforth Highlanders
  • 2nd Gordon Highlanders
  • 36th Sikhs
  • 38th Dogras

• 2nd (Nowshera) Infantry Brigade - Brigadier General Sir J. Willcocks
  • 1st The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
  • 25th Punjabis
  • 45th Rattray Sikhs
  • 54th Sikhs

• 3rd (Frontier) Infantry Brigade - Colonel Fenton Aylmer, V.C.
  • 52nd Sikhs
  • 53rd Sikhs
  • 59th Scinde Rifles
  • Queens Own Corps of Guides

• Divisional Battalion
  • 4th Prince Albert Victor's Rajputs

• 2nd (Rawalpindi) Division Major General. J.H. Wodehouse
• 5th (Jhelum) Infantry Brigade - Colonel. H.B. Watkis
  • 25th Punjabis
  • 30th Punjabis
  • 56th Infantry
  • 58th Vaughan's Rifles

• 6th (Abbottabad) Infantry Brigade - Major General J.B. Woon
  • 1st 5th Gurkha Rifles
  • 2nd 5th Gurkha Rifles
  • 1st 6th Gurkha Rifles
  • 2nd 6th Gurkha Rifles

• 4th (Rawalpindi) Infantry Brigade - Colonel. C.W. Park
  • 1st The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
  • 1st Royal Irish Regiment
  • 1st Royal Munster Fusiliers
  • 2nd Royal Irish Fusiliers

• Divisional Battalion
  • 23rd Pioneers

• 3rd (Lahore) Division Major General Walter Kitchener
• 7th (Mian Mir) Infantry Brigade - Colonel W. Du Gray
  • 1st Northamptonshire Regiment
  • 20th Duke of Cambridge's Own Infantry (Brownlow's Punjabis)
  • 21st Punjabis
  • 40th Pathans

• • 8th (Ferozepore) Infantry Brigade - Brigadier General H.A. Abbott
  • 1st Dorsetshire Regiment
  • 14th Ferozepore Sikhs
  • 15th Ludhiana Sikhs
  • 19th Punjabis

• 9th (Baklok) Infantry Brigade - Brigadier General J.A Pollock
  • 1st 1st Gurkha Rifles (The Maluan Regt)
  • 2nd 1st Gurkha Rifles (The Maluan Regt)
  • 1st 4th Gurkha Rifles
  • 2nd 4th Gurkha Rifles
• Divisional Battalion
  • 34th Sikh Pioneers

• 4th (Quetta) Division Major General Sir O'Moore Creagh. V.C.
• 11th (Derajat) Infantry Brigade - Colonel C.A. Anderson
  • 22nd Punjabis
  • 29th Punjabis
  • 55th Coke's Rifles
  • 78th Moplah Rifles

• 12 (Garwhal) Infantry Brigade - Major General A.C.F. Browne
  • 2nd King's Royal Rifles
  • 1st Royal Irish Rifles
  • 1st 2nd Prince of Wales Own Gurkha Rifles
  • 2nd 2nd Prince of Wales Own Gurkha Rifles

• 10th (Sirkind) Infantry Brigade - Major General R.A.P. Clements
  • 1st Royal Sussex Regiment
  • 1st Gloucestershire Regiment
  • 2nd North Staffordshire Regiment
  • 1st Wiltshire Regiment

• Divisional Battalion
  • 32nd Sikh Pioneers

References

• Abbott, George Frederick (2009). Through India With the Prince (1906). Kessinger. ISBN 110492594X.