pounder battery: Lieutenant-Colonel Huthwaite, commanding the eight-inch howitzer battery; and Lieutenant-Colonel Geddes, commanding the rockets; Captain R. Waller, horse artillery; Captain G. H. Swinley, Captain E. F. Day, Captain J. Turton, Brevet-Major C. Grant, Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel J. Alexander, Brevet-Major F. Brind, Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel J. T. Lane, Brevet-Major J. Campbell, Captain J. Fordyce, Captain R. Horsford, and Lieutenant G. Holland, commanding troops and batteries; Major B. Y. Reilly, commanding Sappers and Miners; Lieutenant-Colonel White, C.B., commanding the 3rd Light Dragoons; Captain Nash, 4th Light Cavalry; Major Alexander, 5th Light Cavalry; Captain Christie, 9th Irregular Cavalry; Lieutenant-Colonel Fullerton, 9th Lancers; Captain Leeson, 2nd Irregular Cavalry; Brevet-Captain Becher, 8th Irregular Cavalry; Captain Pearson, 16th Lancers; Brevet-Captain Quin, GovernorGeneral's Body Guard; Brevet-Major Angelo, 3rd Light Cavalry; Lieutenant-Colonel Spence, 31st Foot; Captain Corfield, 47th Native Infantry; Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Ryan, and BrevetLieutenant-Colonel Petit and Captain Long, 50th Foot; Major Polwhele, 42nd Regiment Native Infantry; Captain O'Brien and Lieutenant Travers, Nusseree battalion; Captain Stepney, 29th Foot; Major Sibbald, 41st Regiment Native Infantry; Major Birrell and Brevet-Captain Seaton, 1st European Light Infantry; Brevet-Major Graves, 16th Grenadiers; Lieutenant Reid, Sirmoor battalion; Lieutenant-Colonel Davis, 9th Foot; Major Hanscomb, 26th Regiment Native Infantry; Lieutenant-Colonel Bunbury, 80th Foot; Captain Hoggan, 63rd Regiment Native Infantry; Captain Sandeman, 33rd Regiment Native Infantry; Lieutenant-Colonel Franks, 10th Foot; Brevet-Lieut.-Colonel Nash, 43rd Regiment Native Infantry; Brevet-LieutenantColonel Thomson, 59th Regiment Native Infantry; LieutenantColonel Phillips, 53rd Foot; Major Shortt, 62nd Foot; BrevetMajor Marshall, 68th Regiment Native Infantry; and Captain Short, 45th Regiment Infantry. The following staff and engineer officers I have also to bring to your special notice, and to pray that their services may be favourably remembered, and the survivors duly rewarded—viz., Captain E. Christie, Deputy-Assistant Adjutant-General, and Lieutenant Maxwell, Deputy-Assistant Quarter-Master-General of Artillery; and Captain Pillans and Brevet-Captain W. K. Warner, Commissaries of Ordnance; Brevet-Captain M. Mackenzie and Brevet-Captain E. G. Austen, and First Lieutenant E. Kaye, Artillery; Majors of Brigade. Napier, Major of Brigade of Engineers; Captain Tritton, 3rd Light Dragoons, DeputyAssistant Adjutant-General; Lieutenant E. Roche, 3rd Dragoons, Aide-de-Camp to Major-General Sir J. Thackwell, and Officiating Deputy-Assistant Quarter-Master-General of Cavalry, in the place of Captain Havelock, 9th Foot, who was present in the field, but unable, from the effects of a wound, to discharge the duties of his office; Captain E. Lugard, 31st Foot, DeputyAssistant Adjutant-General; Lieutenant A. S. Galloway, 3rd Light Cavalry, Deputy-Assistant Quarter-Master-General; Lieutenant E. A. Holdich, 80th Foot, Aide-de-Camp to MajorGeneral Sir Harry Smith; Lieutenant F. M'D. Gilbert, 2nd Grenadiers, Acting Aide-de-Camp to Major-General Gilbert; Captain R. Houghton, 63rd Regiment Native Infanty, Officiating Assistant Adjutant-General; Lieutenant Rawson, Deputy- Assistant Quarter-Master-General-killed; Lieutenant R. Bates, 82nd Foot, Aide-de-Camp to the late Major-General Sir R. Dick; Captain J. R. Pond, 1st European Light Infantry, DeputyAssistant Adjutant-General; Lieutenant J. S. Paton, 14th Regiment Native Infantry, Officiating Deputy-Assistant QuarterMaster-General; Brevet-Captain Harrington, 5th Light Cavalry; Captain A. Spottiswoode, 9th Lancers; Lieutenant R. Pattinson, 16th Lancers; Captain J. Garvock, 31st Foot; Lieutenant G. H. M. Jones, 29th Foot; Captain J. L. Taylor, 26th Light Infantry, Lieutenant H. F. Dunsford, 59th Regiment Native Infantry, Majors of Brigade; Captain Combe, 1st European Light Infantry, Major of Brigade, 2nd brigade; Captain Gordon, 11th Native Infantry, Major of Brigade, 6th brigade; Captain A. G. Ward, 68th Native Infantry, Major of Brigade; and Lieutenant R. Hay, Major of Brigade—killed. Having ventured to speak of your Excellency's own part in this action, it would be most gratifying to me to go on to mention the brilliant share taken in it by Lieutenant-Colonel Wood and the officers of your personal staff, as well as by the civil, political, and other military officers attached to you. But as these were all under your own eye, I cannot doubt that you will yourself do justice to their exertions. We were in this battle again honoured with the presence of Prince Waldemar of Prussia, and the two noblemen in his suite, Counts Oriola and Greuben. Here, as at Moodkee and Ferozeshah, these distinguished visitors did not content themselves with a distant view of the action, but, throughout it, were to be seen in front wherever danger most urgently pressed. The loss of the enemy has been immense; an estimate must be formed with a due allowance for the spirit of exaggeration which pervades all statements of Asiatics where their interest leads them to magnify numbers; but our own observation on the river banks and in the enemy's camp, combined with the reports brought to our intelligence department, convince me that the Khalsa casualties were between 8,000 and 10,000* men killed and wounded in action and drowned in the passage of the river. Amongst the slain are Sirdar Sham Singh Attareewalla, Generals Gholab Singh Koopta and Heera Singh Topee, Sirdar Kishen Singh, son of the late Jemadar Kooshall Singh; Generals Mobaruck Ally and Illahee Buksh, and Shah Newaz Khan, son of Futtehood-deen Khan of Kussoor. The body of Sham Singh was sought for in the captured camp by his followers; and respecting the gallantry with which he is reported to have devoted himself to death rather than accompany the army in its flight, I forbade * We have since ascertained, from undoubted authority, that the Sikhs acknowledge they had 37,000 men engaged in this battle, exclusive of the large force, particularly of cavalry, at this side of the river, and that their loss on this occasion was from 13,000 to 14,000 men. K his people being molested in their search, which was finally successful. The consequences of this great action have yet to be fully developed. It has at least, in God's providence, once more expelled the Sikhs from our territory, and planted our standards on the soil of the Punjaub. After occupying their entrenched position for nearly a month, the Khalsa army had perhaps mistaken the caution which had induced us to wait for the necessary material, for timidity. But they must now deeply feel that the blow which has fallen on them from the British arm has only been the heavier for being long delayed. I have, &c. H. GOUGH, General, Commander-in-Chief, East Indies. Return of the Killed, Wounded, and Missing of the Army of the Sutlej, under the Command of His Excellency General Sir Hugh Gough, Bart., G.C.B., Commander-in-Chief, in the Action at Sobraon, on 10th February, 1846. ABSTRACT. Staff-2 European officers wounded. Artillery Division.-1 European officer, 3 rank and file, 3 syce drivers, 17 horses-killed; 1 European officer, 1 sergeant, 33 rank and file, 5 lascars, 5 syces, 23 horses-wounded; 5 horses missing. Engineers and Sappers and Miners.—2 rank and file-killed; 3 European officers, 1 native ditto, 16 rank and file—wounded. Cavalry Division.-6 rank and file, 13 horses-killed; 4 European officers, 2 trumpeters, 36 rank and file, 53 horses— wounded; 24 horses missing. 1st Infantry Division.-2 European officers, 1 native officer, 97 rank and file-killed; 28 European officers, 13 native officers, 489 rank and file-wounded. 2nd Infantry Division.-5 European officers, 1 native officer, 5 sergeants, 109 rank and file, 1 horse-killed; 38 European officers, 12 native officers, 46 sergeants, 2 drummers, 685 rank and file, 1 horse-wounded. 3rd Infantry Division.-5 European officers, 1 native officer, 3 sergeants, 1 drummer, 75 rank and file, 5 horses-killed; 25 European officers, 13 native officers, 27 sergeants, 3 drummers, 573 rank and file, 6 horses-wounded. Total-13 European officers, 3 native officers, 8 sergeants, 1 drummer, 292 rank and file, 3 syces, and 36 horses-killed; 101 European officers, 39 native officers, 74 sergeants and havildars, 7 trumpeters and drummers, 832 rank and file, 5 lascars, 5 syces, 83 horses-wounded; 29 horses missing. European officers.-13 killed, 101 wounded. Warrant and non-commissioned officers, rank and file.—301 killed, 1,913 wounded. Lascars, syce drivers, syces, &c.-3 killed, 10 wounded. Total-320 killed, 2,063 wounded. Grand Total of killed, wounded, and missing, 2,383. Names of Officers Killed and Wounded. KILLED. Artillery Division. 1st Troop 2nd Brigade Horse Artillery.- First Lieutenant H. J. Y. Faithfull. 1st Infantry Division. Brigade Staff-Lieutenant R. Hay, Major of Brigade. 2nd Infantry Division. Divisional Staff.-Lieutenant J. S. Rawson, Officiating DeputyAssistant Quarter-Master-General. |