Lushai Expedition order of battle
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The following is the order of battle for the Lushai Expedition (1871-1872).
Lushai Field Force
- General George Bouchier
- Half Peshawar Mountain Battery (Captain Blackwood RA)
- No 1 Coy Sappers & Miners (Lt Harvey RE)
- 500 22nd Punjaub Native Infantry (Colonel Stafford)
- 500 42nd Assam Light Infantry (Colonel Rattray CB)
- 500 44th Assam Light Infantry (Colonel Hicks)
- 100 Police (Mr Daly)
- Column support
- 1440 coolies (Lieutenant-Colonel Davidson)
- 800 coolies (sepoys baggage, Major Moore)
- 121 elephants
- Senior Staff Officer Frederick Sleigh Roberts
- Brigade Major Captain Thomas
- Aide-de-Camp Captain Butter
- Inspector General of Hospitals Dr Buckle
- Political officer John Edgar
- Assistant Political officer Mr Burland
- Topographical Survey (Captain Badgley)
- Telegraph (Mr Pitman)
Chittagong (Right) Column[1][3]
- Brigader-General Charles Henry Brownlow
- Half Peshawar Mountain Battery (Colonel James Hill)
- No 3 Coy Sappers & Miners
- 500 27th Punjaub Native Infantry
- 500 2nd Gurkhas (Colonel H. Macpherson)
- 500 4th Gurkhas (Colonel Tytler)
- Support
- Political officer (Thomas Herbert Lewin)
- Assistant political officer (Mr Crouch)
- Medical Officer 2nd Gurkha (Dr Allen)
- Assistant Quartermaster-General (Captain East)
- Brigadier William Frost Nuthall
- 1552 Manipuri troops (Major Sewai Chumba, Major Thangal)
- 530 Kuki Contingent
- 1749 coolies