Militia Reinforcements for Lines of Communication

January to June 1900

First Group:
Infantry:
4/Royal Lancaster
6/Royal Warwickshire

4/Derbyshire*
9/KRRC*
3/Durham Light Infantry*
3/South Lancashire
4/Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders*
Total 4,877
Arrived between 29 January 1900 and 13 February 1900
Embodied by Special Army Order of 23 November 1899
* Embodied by Special Army Order of 3 November 1899
These units later volunteered for South Africa.
Second Group:

Mountain & Garrison Artillery:

Antrim (1 coy)#
Donegal (1 coy)#
Durham (1 coy)#
Edinburgh (1 coy)#
Total 617
Arrived 16 April 1900
Engineers:
Anglesey**
Monmouth**
Total 256
Arrived 3 April 1900 and 28 June 1900
Infantry:
3/Royal Scots*
3/Royal West Kent*
3/East Kent
3/Royal Lancaster+
3/Norfolk+
4/Somerset Light Infantry*
4/West Yorkshire
4/Bedfordshire
3/Yorkshire##
6/Lancashire Fusiliers##
4/Cheshire+
3/South Wales Borderers+

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 3/King's Own Scottish Borderers+
4/Scottish Rifles*
3/East Lancashire+
3/West Riding
4/South Staffordshire
3/Welsh*

6/Middlesex##
4/North Staffordshire+
3/Leinster
5/Munster Fusiliers* (later renumbered 3rd)
5/Dublin Fusiliers*
Total 12,663
Arrived between 1 March 1900 and 28 March 1900
* Embodied by Special Army Order of 3 November 1899
Embodied by Special Army Order of 4 November 1899
## Embodied by Special Army Order of 23 November 1899
Embodied by Special Army Order of 18 December 1899
+ Embodied by Special Army Order of 4 January 1900
# Embodied by Special Army Order of 1 March 1900
** Embodied by Special Army Order of 17 February 1900
These units later volunteered for South Africa

Royal Commission on the South African War, 1903, App. 5