Distribution of the British Army 31 March 1860 Date of 1st Lifeguards Windsor Feb 1816 France 2nd Life Guards Regent's Park Feb 1816 France Royal Horse Gds Hyde Park Feb 1816 France 1st Dragoon Gds Madras 1 Canterbury Aug 1857 2nd Dragoon Gds Lucknow Canterbury July 1857 3rd Dragoon Gds Mhow Canterbury Aug 1857 4th Dragoon Gds Brighton Jul 1856 Crimea 5th Dragoon Gds May 1856 Crimea 6th Dragoon Gds Meerut Maidstone Aug 1856 7th Dragoon Gds Sealkote Canterbury Oct 1857 1st Dragoons Dublin May 1856 Crimea 2nd Dragoons Newbridge Jul 1856 Crimea 3rd Lancers Dublin May 1853 Bengal 4th Lancers Manchester May 1856 Crimes 5th Lancers 6th Dragoons Kirkee Maidstone July 1858 7th Hussars Umballah Canterbury Aug 1857 8th Hussars Nusseerabad Canterbury Oct 1857 9th Lancers Exeter Maidstone Sep 1859 India 10th Hussars Hounslow Jun 1856 Crimes 11th Lt Dragoons Birmingham Jul 1856 Crimea 12th Lancers Secunderabad 2 Maidstone Aug 1856 13th Lt Dragoons Edinburgh May 1856 Crimea 14th Dragoons On pass home Maidstone May 1841 15th Hussars Dublin Jun 1854 E. Indies 16th Lancers York Dec 1846 Bengal 17th Lancers Secunderabad Canterbury Oct 1857 18th Lt Dragoons Mil Train 1st Bn Mil Train 2nd Bn China Mil Train 3rd Bn Mil Train 4th Bn Mil Train 5th Bn Curragh Mil Train 6th Bn Mil Train Depot Gren Gds 1st Bn W'ton Bar 1828 Portugal Gren Gds 2nd Bn Windsor Oct 1842 Canada Gren Gds 3rd Bn Dublin Jul 1856 Crimea Colds Gds 1st Bn P'man St. Bar Jun 1856 Crimea Colds Gds 2nd Bn The Tower Oct 1842 Canada Sc Fus Gds 1st Bn St. Geo's Bar Jul 1856 Crimea Sc Fus Gds 2nd Bn W'ton Bar 1828 Portugal 1st Foot 1st Bn Secunderabad Colchester July 1857 1st Foot 2nd Bn China Birr Jan 1853 2nd Foot 1st Bn C of Good Hope Walmer June 1851 2nd Foot 2nd Bn Cephalonia Walmer Feb 1858 1
3rd Foot 1st Bn China Limerick Apr 1851 3rd Foot 2nd Bn Malta Limerick Apr 1858 4th Foot 1st Bn Ahmedabad Chichester May 1857 4th Foot 2nd Bn Corfu Chichester May 1859 5th Foot 1st Bn Calpee Colchester July 1847 5th Foot 2nd Bn Mauritius Pembroke Aug 1858 6th Foot 1st Bn Benares 2 Colchester Aug 1846 6th Foot 2nd Bn Gibraltar Cork May 1858 7th Foot 1st Bn Peshawur Chatham July 1857 7th Foot 2nd Bn Gibraltar Walmer May 1858 8th Foot 1st Bn Bengal 2 Chatham Apr 1846 8th Foot 2nd Bn Gibraltar Templemore 9th Foot 1st Bn Corfu Limerick Jan 1860 9th Foot 2nd Bn Corfu Limerick Oct 1858 10th Foot 1st Bn Devonport Jul 1859 India 10th Foot 2nd Bn C of Good Hope Plymouth Jan 1860 11th Foot 1st Bn Fermoy Feb 1858 N S W 11th Foot 2nd Bn 12th Foot 1st Bn Tasmania Walmer Jun 1854 12th Foot 2nd Bn 13th Foot 1st Bn Goruckpore Fermoy May 1851 13th Foot 2nd Bn C of Good Hope Fermoy Feb 1859 14th Foot 1st Bn Corfu Fermoy Apr 1854 14th Foot 2nd Bn Mullingar 15th Foot 1st Bn Jersey Pembroke Jun 1857 Gibraltar 15th Foot 2nd Bn Malta Pembroke Nov 1858 16th Foot 1st Bn Templemore Jun 1857 Canada 16th Foot 2nd Bn Clonmel 17th Foot 1st Bn Quebec Limerick Apr 1854 17th Foot 2nd Bn 18th Foot 1st Bn Secunderabad Buttevant Nov 1857 18th Foot 2nd Bn Templemore 19th Foot 1st Bn Dinapore Chatham July 1857 19th Foot 2nd Bn 20th Foot 1st Bn Lucknow Chatham Aug 1857 20th Foot 2nd Bn Dublin 21st Foot 1st Bn Barbadoes Birr Aug 1854 21st Foot 2nd Bn 22nd Foot 1st Bn Dublin Parkhurst Jul 1855 E Indies 22nd Foot 2nd Bn Malta Parkhurst May 1859 23rd Foot 1st Bn Lucknow Chatham May 1857 23rd Foot 2nd Bn Malta Walmer Feb 1859 24th Foot 1st Bn Ferozepore 2 Chatham May 1848 24th Foot 2nd Bn Mauritius Mar 1860 25th Foot 1st Bn Gibraltar Athlone Jan 1858 25th Foot 2nd Bn Preston 26th Foot Dublin Belfast Oct 1859 Bermuda 27th Foot Umballah Buttevant July 1854 28th Foot Poona Fermoy Feb 1854 2
29th Foot Preston Devonport Sep 1859 India 30th Foot Curragh Isle of Wt Sep 1857 Gibraltar 31st Foot China Chatham Jan 1853 32nd Foot Devonport Dover Aug 1859 India 33rd Foot Deesa Fermoy Mar 1851 34th Foot Azimghur Colchester Aug 1857 35th Foot Dinapore Chatham July 1854 36th Foot Plymouth Athlone Jul 1857 Jamaica 37th Foot Ghazepore 2 Colchester Nov 1846 38th Foot Lucknow Colchester Aug 1857 39th Foot Bermuda Templemore Apr 1854 40th Foot Melbourne Birr July 1852 41st Foot Jamaica Devonport Apr 1857 42nd Foot Bareilly Stirling Aug 1857 43rd Foot Calcutta Chatham Oct 1851 44th Foot China Colchester Aug 1857 45th Foot Bradford Isle of Wt Jun 1859 Cape 46th Foot Mooltan Templemore Oct 1854 47th Foot Cork Aug 1857 Gibraltar 48th Foot Allahabad Cork Feb 1853 49th Foot Barbadoes Belfast Feb 1851 50th Foot Ceylon Parkhurst July 1857 51st Foot Mean Meer Chichester Oct 1857 52nd Foot Sealkote Chatham June 1853 53rd Foot Barrackpore 2 Chatham Aug 1844 54th Foot Cawnpore Colchester Aug 1857 55th Foot Curragh Devonport Sep 1857 Gibraltar 56th Foot Belgaum 1 Colchester Aug 1857 57th Foot Poona Cork Feb 1853 58th Foot Birr Mar 1859 N Zealand 59th Foot Cape Athlone June 1849 60th Foot 1st Bn Fort William 2 Winchester July 1845 60th Foot 2nd Bn Calcutta 1 Winchester June 1851 60th Foot 3rd Bn Jackatalla Winchester Aug 1857 60th Foot 4th Bn Dublin Winchester 61st Foot Mauritius Pembroke July 1845 62nd Foot Nova Scotia Belfast Feb 1851 63rd Foot Nova Scotia Belfast July 1854 64th Foot Kurrachee Canterbury Jan 1849 65th Foot New Zealand Birr May 1846 66th Foot Cananore 1 Colchester Aug 1857 67th Foot China Athlone Sep 1858 68th Foot Rangoon Fermoy Sep 1857 69th Foot Moulmein 1 Fermoy Nov 1857 70th Foot Cawnpore Canterbury Jan 1849 71st Foot Gwailor Perth Dec 1854 72nd Foot Mhow Aberdeen Aug 1857 73rd Foot Dinapore Devonport Sep 1845 74th Foot Dharwar Aberdeen Mat 1851 3
75th Foot Allahabad Chatham May 1849 76th Foot Dublin Belfast Oct 1857 N Scotia 77th Foot Allahabad Jersey June 1857 78th Foot Edinburgh Sep 1859 India 79th Foot Mean Meer Stirling Aug 1857 80th Foot Saugor Buttevant Jul 1856 81st Foot Rawul Pindee Chatham Jul 1853 82nd Foot Shajehanpore Canterbury Jan 1855 83rd Foot Nusseerabad Chichester Jan 1849 84th Foot Sheffield Pembroke Sep 1859 India 85th Foot Cape & India Pembroke Jan 1853 86th Foot Gosport Templemore Aug 1859 India 87th Foot Calcutta 1 Youghal Apr 1849 88th Foot Bengal 1 Colchester Jul 1857 89th Foot Agra Fermoy Apr 1854 90th Foot Lucknow Canterbury Nov 1854 91st Foot Kamptee Chatham Dec 1854 92nd Foot Bengal Stirling Mar 1851 93rd Foot Bengal Aberdeen June 1857 94th Foot Mooltan Chatham Jun 1856 Gibraltar 95th Foot Neemuch Fermoy June 1857 96th Foot Manchester Isle of Wt Jun 1857 Gibraltar 97th Foot Lucknow Colchester Aug 1857 98th Foot Peshawur Canterbury Oct 1857 99th Foot China Cork Sep 1858 100th Foot Gibraltar Parkhurst May 1859 Rifle Bde 1st Bn Winchester Jul 1856 Crimea Rifle Bde 2nd Bn Sabathoo Winchester Aug 1857 Rifle Bde 3rd Bn Oude Winchester July 1857 Rifle Bde 4th Bn Malta Winchester Aug 1858 German Legion Poona Army Hosp Corps Chatham Rl Artillery HQ Horse Bde 1st Bde Gar Art 2nd Bde Gar Art Dover 3rd Bde Gar Art Plyouth 4th Bde Gar Art 5th Bde Gar Art Gibraltar 6th Bde Gar Art Malta 7th Bde Gar Art Quebec 8th Bde Field Art 9th Bde Field Art Dublin 10th Bde Gar Art Guernsey 11th Bde Fld Art Bengal 12th Bde Gar Art Mauritius 13th Bde Fld Art Bombay 14th Bde Fld Art Bombay Depot 4
Coast Bde HQ RE HQ A Trp RE Train Chatham Aug 1856 1st Coy Malta Jan 1855 2nd Coy Gibraltar Nov 1854 3rd Coy Gibraltar Jan 1859 4th Coy China Oct 1857 5th Coy Sep 1850 6th Coy New Zealand Apr 1849 7th Coy Halifax N. S. Jul 1857 8th Coy China Dec 1857 9th Coy Corfu May 1855 10th Coy China Oct 1857 11th Coy India 3 Oct 1857 12th Coy C of Good Hope May 1858 13th Coy Dublin survey 14th Coy Kelso survey 15th Coy Chatham Sep 1858 16th Coy Newry survey 17th Coy Malta Mar 1856 18th Coy Weymouth Oct 1857 19th Coy Glasgow survey 20thth Coy Swan River 21st Coy India 3 Oct 1857 22nd Coy Mauritius 2 May 1853 23rd Coy China Apr 1857 24th Coy Gibraltar May 1856 25th Coy C of Good Hope Jul 1856 26th Coy Bermuda Nov 1856 27th Coy Chatham 28th Coy Malta May 1859 29th Coy Corfu May 1859 30th Coy Dover 31st Coy Curragh Camp 32nd Coy Alderney 33rd Coy Chatham 34th Coy 35th Coy 36th Coy 1 Under orders for China 2 Ordered home 3 Ordered to Mauritius 5
Depot Battalions 1st Depot Battalion - Chatham 2nd Depot Battalion - Chatham 3rd Depot Battalion - Chatham 4th Depot Battalion - Canterbury 5th Depot Battalion - Parkhurst 6th Depot Battalion - Walmer 7th Depot Battalion - Winchester 8th Depot Battalion - Pembroke 9th Depot Battalion - Colchester 10th Depot Battalion - Colchester 11th Depot Battalion - Devonport 12th Depot Battalion - Athlone 13th Depot Battalion - Birr 14th Depot Battalion - Belfast 15th Depot Battalion - Buttevant 16th Depot Battalion - Templemore 17th Depot Battalion - Limerick 18th Depot Battalion - Fermoy 19th Depot Battalion - Fermoy 20th Depot Battalion - Cork 21st Depot Battalion - Chichester 22nd Depot Battalion - Stirling 23rd Depot Battalion - Aberdeen Cavalry Depot - Maidstone Cavalry Depot - Canterbury Colonial Corps 1st West India Regiment at Bahamas, Depot - Chatham 2nd West India Regiment at Jamaica, Depot - Chtahm 3rd West India Regiment at Barbadoes, Depot - Chatham Ceylon Rifle Regiment at Ceylon Cape Mounted Rifles at Cape of Good Hope Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment at Kingston St. Helena Regiment at St. Helena Royal Newfoundland Veteran Coys at Newfoundland Gold Coast Corps at Cape Coast Royal Malta Fencibles at Malta English Embodied Militia Bedford Cheshire (2nd, Royal) Durham (Artillery) Hampshire (Artillery) Kent (East) Lancashire (Artillery, Royal) Lincoln (North, Royal) Middlesex (5th, Royal Elthorne) Northumberland (Artillery) Norfolk (Artillery) Oxford Stafford (1st King's Own) Stafford (2nd King's Own) Suffolk (Artillery) Sussex (Royal) Tower Hamlets (King's Own) Warwick (2nd) Wiltshire (Royal) York (1st West) York (3rd West) Isle of Wight Pembroke Weymouth Charles Fort Newry Tynemouth Sheerness Oxford Dublin Gosport Glasgow Newport Dover Edinburgh Newcastle 6
Scotch Edinburgh (City Artillery) Fifeshire (Artillery) Forfar & Kincardine Artillery Lanark (2nd Royal) Stirling Dunbar Devonport Sheerness Irish Antrim (Rifles) Antrim (Artillery) Donegal Dublin (City, Royal) Dublin (City Artillery) Fermanagh Kerry Louth (Rifles) Tipperary (Artillery) Waterford (Artillery) Belfast Yarmouth Dublin Chester Curragh Kinsale Gosport The Naval and Military Gazette and East India and Colonial Chronicle, 1859 Copyright GFN 1994. 7