Rawalpindi Parade 1905
The Rawalpindi Parade 1905 was a parade by the British Indian Army held in Rawalpindi 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 Lieutenant General Sir, E. Barrow
- 1st Seaforth Highlanders
- 2nd Gordon Highlanders
- 36th Sikhs
- 38th Dogras
- 2nd (Nowshera) Infantry Brigade - Brigadier General Sir James 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. Henry Buckley Burton Watkis
- 25th Punjabis
- 30th Punjabis
- 56th Infantry
- 58th Vaughan's Rifles
- 6th (Abbottabad) Infantry Brigade - Major General John Blaxell 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{{cite web|title=Rawalpindi parade 1905|accessdate=2009-10-04|url=http://www.vsdh.org/feltham/cathy_day/rawal2.htm}}
References
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- {{cite book|title=Through India With the Prince (1906)|year=2009|author=Abbott, George Frederick|publisher=Kessinger|isbn=1-104-92594-X}}
Category:Military of British India