Lushai Expedition order of battle

The following is the order of battle for the Lushai Expedition (1871-1872).

Lushai Field Force

Cachar (Left) Column

• 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

• 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)

Manipur Contingent

• Brigadier William Frost Nuthall
  • 1552 Manipuri troops (Major Sewai Chumba, Major Thangal)
  • 530 Kuki Contingent
  • 1749 coolies

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