THE
LONDON GAZETTE, 16 JULY, 1912.
NOMINAL
RETURN OF OFFICERS WOUNDED.
6179
Rank.
Captain
Name.
J.
R. Hutchison,
Adjutant,.
Assam
Valley
Light Horse.
Description
of wound — dangerous, severe or slight.
Severe
Nature
of wound.
Arrow
wound, right
thigh.
1524
THE
LONDON GAZETTE, MARCH 6, 1900.
COLONEL
LUMSDEN'S CORPS.
Lieutenant-Colonel
Dugald McT.Lumsden, Assam
Valley
Light Horse Volunteers, to be Commandant,
with
the temporary rank of Lieutenant-
Colonel
in the Army- Dated 7th March, 1900.
Lieutenant-Colonel
Eden Showers, late Commandant -
Surma
Valley Light Horse Volunteers,
to
be Second in. Command, with the temporary
rank
of Major in the Army.
Dated 7th
March,
1900.
Captain
J. H. B. Beresford, Indian Staff Corp*,
to
he Company Commander. Dated 7th March;
1900.
To
be Captains, with the temporary rank of
Captain
in the Army. Dated 7th March,
1900
:—
Major
Henry Chamney, Surma Valley Light
Horse
Volunteers.
Captain
Francis Clifford, Coorg und Mysore
Volunteer
.Rifles.
Second
Lieutenant Bernard "W. Holmes, East
India
Railway Volunteer Rifles.
Second
Lieutenant John B. Rutherfoord, Behar
Light
Horse Volunteers.
To
be Lieutenants, with the temporary rank of
Lieutenant
in the Army. Dated 7th March,
1900
:—
Lieutenant
Charles L. Sidey, Surma Valley Light
Horse
Volunteers.
Herbert
O. Pugh, Gent.
George
A. Nevill, Gent.
Charles
E. Crane, Gent.
Captain
Neville C. Taylor, Indian Staff Corps, to
be
Adjutant. Dated 7th March, 1900.
Surgeon-Captain
Samuel A. Powell, M.D.,
Surma
Valley Light Horse Volunteers, to be
Ue'lical
Officer, with the temporary rank of
Captain.
Dated 7th March, 1900.
William
Stevenson, Gent., to be Veterinary
Officer,
with the temporary rank of Veterinary-
Lieutenant.
Dated 7th March, 1900.
SUPPLEMENT
TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, JANUARY 1, 1909.
The
KING has been graciously pleased to
make
the following promotions in and appoint-
ments
to the Most Eminent Order of the Indian
Empire
under the above Statute:—
To
be Companion to the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire
Lieutenant-Colonel
Charles Thorp Jessop, V.D.,
Honorary
Aide-de-Camp to the Lieutenant-
Governor
of Eastern Bengal and Assam, and
Commandant
of the Assam Valley Light Horse.
THE
LONDON GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 30, 1898.
5735
LIST CCCIX of the Names of Officers and Soldiers deceased since 1865 whose
Personal Estate
is
held by the Secretary of State for War for distribution amongst the Next of
Kin or others
entitled.—Effects
1897-98.
Lishman, William
1st
Class Sergeant-
Instructor
1st
Battalion East Kent Regiment and
Assam
Valley. Light Horse
£42
15 9
7566
SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 23 SEPTEMBER, 1914.
Reserve
Regiments
Walter
Hervey St. John Mildmay, late
Major,
Assam Valley Light Horse, is ;
granted
the temporary rank of Captain.
Dated
24th September, 1914
8892
THE
LONDON GAZETTE, 3 NOVEMBER, 1914.
8th
Battalion, The Worcestershire Regiment;
The
undermentioned to be Captains
Hugh
Warburton Davies (late Second Lieutenant,
Assam Valley Light Horse).
Dated
5th September, 1914.
Dated
1st October, 1914.
38-74
THE
LONDON GAZETTE, MAY 21, 1909.
INFANTRY.
8th
Battalion, The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment) ;
Robert
Anderson (late Second Lieutenant,
Assam
Valley Light Horse) to be Lieutenant.
Dated
12th February, 1909.
SUPPLEMENT
TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 1 JANUARY, 1921. 7
Most
Eminent Order of the
Indian
Empire: —
To
be Companions of the said Most Eminent Order
Lieutenant-Colonel
Lionel Augustus Grimsiton,
V.D.,O.B.E.,
Commanding: the 6th. Assam
Valley
.Light Horse (I.A.F.), Assam.
7206
SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 17 JULY, 1917. TERRITORIAL
FORCE.
Kent
Volunteer Regt.
8th
Bn.—The undermentioned to be temp. 2nd
Lts.
6th June 1917: —
Thomas
Barton Cheesman.
Ernest
Cyril Coulthurst Holder (late 2nd
Lt.,
Assam Valley Light Horse).
THE
LONDON GAZETTE, MARCH 6, 1900.
1531
Infantry
---The
Limerick City Artillery (Southern Division),
Sydney
John Brasier-Creagh, Esq., late Assam
Valley
Light Horse Volunteers, to be Captain.
Dated
7th March, 1900.
5176
THE
LONDON GAZETTE, 16 JULY, 1912,
No.
1199-A., dated Kobo, the llth April,
1912.
From
Major-General H. Bower, C.B., Com
manding,
Abor Expeditionary Force,
To
the Chief of the General Staff, Army Head-
quarters,
Simla.
Orders
for the demobilisation of the Abor
Expeditionary
Force having been received, I
have
the honour to report as follows for the
information
of His Excellency the Commander-
in-Chief:
—
*
*
* *
*
Probability
of Abor Coalition (summary).
32.
Previous to the advance of the force information pointed to the great
probability that
we
would not only be opposed by the Minyong
but
that several other tribes would coalesce
with
those responsible for the massacre in
opposing
our advance and from information
obtained
afterwards it appears that very many
villages
assisted in the preparation of stockades
and
stone shoots. It was soon, however,
apparent
that the tribes who promised their
support
to the Minyong had done so under the
belief
that the punitive force would be on the
small
and insufficient scale that has been such
a
marked feature of former expeditions against
the
Abors. As soon as our strength became
manifest
the coalition fell to pieces and the
guilty
villages were left to fight out their own
quarrel
with us alone. This materially re-
duced
the active opposition.
Physical
Difficulties (summary).
•
33. On the other hand, the physical difficulties of the country presented even
a greater
obstacle
to rapid advance than had been anticipated. The Abor paths were quite unfit
for
use
by laden carriers, and as an example of the
difficulties
encountered I may mention that a
small
exploration party leaving camp soon after
daylight
only completed a march of 1| miles
by
4 p.m. Many other cases showing the difficulty of rapid movement could be
quoted, and
the
necessity for searching out and destroying
stone
shoots, of which an incredible number had
been
prepared, also involved delay.
Results
(summary).
34.
As the result of the operations the
culpable
villages have been punished, six men
who
took part in the massacre of Mr. Williamson's party have been captured, tried,
five
found
guilty and sentenced. The rifles taken
ha,ve
been restored, and our capability to
punish
evildoers, which hitherto has not been
credited,
has1
been brought home to the tribesmen. Practically the whole Abor country has
been
visited and excellent relations established.
The
domination exercised by the Kebang-
Rotung1
group of villages has been broken, the
villages
in the interior can now trade with
India
which they express a great desire to do.
The
part of the north Lakhimpur Districts
lying
to the north of the Brahmaputra can be
recolonised,
there being now nothing to fear
from
Abor raids.
Mule
Roads (summary).
35.
A good road fit for mules has been con-
structed
from Kobo to Yambung, and Abor
paths
improved as far as Shimong and Riga
and
between Mishing and Kalek.
Survey
.(summary).
r.
.. ^.^
36.
The absence of maps, native information
being
often misleading, was a difficulty. In
spite
of the fact that the weather, could hardly
have
been less favourable than it was for sur
veying,
the following results were obtained: —
(a)
An accurate series of triangulation,
emanating
from the Assam Longitudinal
series
of the Great Trigonometrical Survey,
has
been carried over the outlying ranges to
the
latitude of Kebang, terminating in the
base
Sadup h. s. Namkam h. s. This will
prove
of the greatest assistance to future
surveyors
or explorers.
(b)
From this series and an extension of
reconnaissance
triangulation to the latitude
of
Simong several large snowy peaks have
been
fixed on what appears to be the main
Himalayan
divide, including one very fine,
peak
over 25,000 ft. high. Many more snow
peaks
have also been fixed on the watershed
between
the Dihang and Subansiri rivers,
which
seems to be a very prominent spur of
the
main divide. It has only been possible
to
obtain a mere approximation of the topography of these snowy ranges', but the
geodetic
results are in themselves of great
value.
(c)
About 3,500 square miles have been
more
or less rigorously mapped on scale 4
miles
= 1 inch, including the whole of thq
Yamne
and Shimang Valleys, a portion of
the
Siyom River, and the whole of the
Dihang
Valley as far north as Singging.
Although
I venture to think it is now possible for very small parties to travel about
the
country. It was found necessary, in the
first
instance, that exploring parties showed
strength.
In. addition to reasons of safety a
considerable'
number of men were required to
clear
hill tops1.
Conduct
of Troops (summary).
37.
Campaigning in a country where, the
difficulties
of transport are so great necessarjl^v
involved
considerable hardships on the men,
and
great extremes were experienced from
tropical
heat to bivouacking in snow. In one place
this
was lying 9 feet deep. The continuous
bad
weather experienced during part of the
operations
was a greater hardship than it would
be
in a campaign on which tents could be
carried.
The work was hard, unremitting, and
continued
watchfulness was required against,
an
enemy ever readjr
to take advantage of- any
opportunity.
Difficulties of exploration were
accentuated
by- the. impossibility .of columns
living'on
the country. The Abors grow only……….
………..Corps
and Departments.
41.
Assam
Valley Light Horse Dismounted
Detachment.
—The
members of this detachment
showed
a most soldierlike spirit in volunteering,
in
many cases1 at great personal inconvenience
and
pecuniary loss, to accompany the expedition. They underwent considerable
hardship
in
a most cheerful spirit and played an important part in the taking of the Kekar
Monying
position.
Captain C. L. Lovell commanded
the
detachment in an efficient manner
5178
THE
LONDON GAZETTE, 16 JULY, 1912.
Surgeon-Captain
J. M. Falkiner, Assam
Valley
Light Horse, served as a Volunteer
Medical
Officer with the Ledum Column and
Lakhimpur
Military Police. He has served
throughout
without remuneration and I consider his services worthy of commendation.
SUPPLEMENT
TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 1 JANUARY, 1931. 7
CENTRAL
CHANCERY OF THE ORDERS
OF
. KNIGHTHOOD.
St.
James's Palace, S.W.
1,
•'•'•"-•
1st January, 1931-.
The"
KING has been graciously pleased to
give
orders for
vthe
following promotion in,
and
appointment^ to, the Most Eminent Order
of
the Indian Empire:—
To
be Companions of the said Most Eminent Order:—
Lieutenant-Colonel
(Honorary Colonel) Horace
Craigie
Manders, V.D., Auxiliary Force,
India,
Commandant, Assam Valley Light
Horse,
A.F.I.
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