THE HAMPSHIRE CORPS.
All the southern county corps were brought in by special excursion trains, each train, in many cases, taking up on its route any corps which were in waiting. All these troops, we should state further, were brought into the Terminus and let down on the different platforms there.
Hampshire furnished, like Surrey, a quota of cavalry to the Review. The 1st Hants Light Horse (Droxford) marched into Brighton and “put up” at the Cavalry Barracks.
Artillery also came in strong force from Hampshire. There were the 1st Hants (Bitterne), 90, under Captains S. Macnaghten and F. P. W. Freeman; 2nd ditto (Southsea), 110, Captains E. Galt and W. E. Frost; 3rd (Portsmouth Dockyard), 171, Lieut,-Colonel A. B. Sturdee. The Rifle Corps from Hants were the 1st (Winchester), 120, Capt.-Commandant T. Faunce; 2nd (Southampton), 360, Lieut.-Colonel O. Grinston; 16th (Alresford), 60, Capt. Marx. (The foregoing troops came from Havant station.)—The 2nd Battalion comprised the 4th (Havant), 60, Capt. C. J. Longcroft; 5th (Portsmouth), 190. Capt. F. J. C. Gordon; 6th (Gosport), 60, Capt. Purvis, R.N.; 23rd (Cosham), 30, Lieut E. Goble.—The 3rd Battalion also came from Havant. It included the 7th (Fareham), Capt. F. E. Bruce; the 8th (Bitterne), Capt. W. Warner; the 12th (Petersfield). Capt.-Commandant Chawner; 17th (Titchfield), Lieut G. Wingate; 20th (Wickham), Lieut. H. Carter; 21st (Alton). Lieut. C. Rivers; 22nd (Bishop's Waltham), Lieut B. P. Shearer,—The total muster of the battalion was 365 men.