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A History of the Coldstream Guards, from 1815 to 1895

Chapter 33: APPENDIX IV. DISTRIBUTION OF THE BRITISH CONTINGENT IN FRANCE, APRIL 10, 1816.
By J. Ross
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A regiment-focused history that follows the Coldstream Guards from the immediate postwar occupation of France through later nineteenth-century service. It recounts operational involvement in continental occupation, field campaigns, colonial disturbances, and Egyptian expeditions, together with periods of garrison duty and organizational change. The narrative draws on official orders, diaries, regimental records, and contemporary illustrations, and includes appendices of notes and corrections and plates of uniforms and scenes. Throughout, attention centers on duty and endurance, documenting selected episodes of discipline, hardship, and acts of gallantry that the regiment regards as constitutive of its traditions.

APPENDIX IV.
DISTRIBUTION OF THE BRITISH CONTINGENT IN
FRANCE, APRIL 10, 1816.

CAVALRY.
 
  Head-quarters. Stations. No. of Officers. No. of Men. No. of Horses.
1st Brigade Cassel 1st Dragoon Gds. Frevent and adjacents 30 458 438
    2nd    ”     ” Avesnes and adjacents 22 437 420
    2nd Dragoons Bailleul 26 431 579
2nd Brigade Samer 7th Hussars Etaples and 14 detachments 25 459 430
    12th Lt. Dragoons Fruges and 9 detachments 30 499 433
    18th Hussars Deserves and 9 detachments 24 468 426
    R. H. Artillery Samer and 4 detachments 4 170 189
3rd    ” Cassel 11th Lt. Dragoons Wormhout and 4 detachments 28 462 405
    15th Hussars Bourbourg and vicinity 24 496 437
    13th Lt. Dragoons Hazebrouck and 7 detachments 27 394 398
    R. H. Artillery Samer 4 164 171
INFANTRY.
First Division (Head-quarters, Cambrai):—
 
1st Brigade Cambrai Grenadier Gds. Cambrai     27 1259 75
  Coldstream Gds. Cambrai 11 257 29    
    Marcoing 5 231 9    
    Gouzeacourt 4 226 9    
    Gonnelieu 1 3 3    
    Villers Glishain 3 116 5    
    Honnecourt 2 117 5    
    Villers Ploich and Beaugaart 3 116 10    
    Banteau and Bantouzelle 2 113 3    
      — —— —    
    Total Coldstream Guards     31 1179 73
7th   ” St. Leger 43rd Regiment Bapaume and 10 detachments 43 1079 69
    7th     ” Amblainsville and 13 detachments 37 933 54
    23rd    ” Hamelincourt and 13 detachments 39 722 52
    Commissariat Sapignies, Farreuil, Bapaume 3 90 126
8th   ” Beaumez 27th Regiment Bugny and 14 detachments 44 988 67
    40th    ” Havincourt and 8 detachments 26 653 48
    1st Battalion Rifle Brigade Bourlon and 5 detachments 30 503 57
    Commissariat Bugny 1 30 46
Divisional R. Artillery Bapaume 8 216 90
     ”     Commissariat    ” 1 10 17
 
Second Division (Head-quarters, St. Pol):—
 
3rd Brigade St. Pol 3rd Regiment Croix and 15 detachments 35 1013 50
    39th    ” Bethincourt and 18 detachments 43 968 62
    91st    ” St. Pol and 18 detachments 43 992 61
    Commissariat Vallum, Bailleul, Maisnil 2 90 140
4th   ” ”     4th Regiment Fauquembourg and 15 detachments 29 814 52
    52nd    ” Upen de Aval and 24 detachments 39 1003 70
    79th    ” Wizernes and 16 detachments 37 671 42
    Commissariat Clety, Dohen 2 52 80
6th   ” Lillers 6th Regiment Lillers and 6 detachments 35 843 38
    29th    ” Chocques and 5 detachments 31 861 59
    71st    ” Norrein Fonte and 18 detachments 35 864 62
    Commissariat Bourcq, St. Hilaire 1 40 74
    Royal Sappers and Miners Well, Pernes, Floringham 8 101 63
Divisional R. Artillery Lillers, St. Pol, Lillers Barbent 15 258 285
     ”     Commissariat Le Parcq 2 34 49
     ”     R. Waggon Train Aubigny and 1 detachment 4 76 104
 
Third Division (Head-quarters, Valenciennes):—
 
2nd Brigade Valenciennes 3rd Battn. Royals Valenciennes 36 1132 49
    57th Regiment     ” 43 705 30
    2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade Les Celles and 2 detachments 29 553 40
5th   ” ”     5th Regiment Valenciennes 37 1152 49
    9th    ” St. Amand 40 1032 36
    21st   ” Valenciennes 42 1004 43
9th   ” ”     81st   ”     ” 37 1076 40
    88th   ”     ” 34 1113 56
Royal Artillery       ”    and St. Amand 13 376 304
  ”   Waggon Train Raillencourt and 3 detachments 15 166 255
  ”   Staff Corps Proville and 1 detachment 11 168 ..
Commissariat Waggon Train St. Pol, Valenciennes, Sancourt, Oissy, and 10 detachments 48 1343 1810

Note.—Several of the detachments were commanded by Non-commissioned officers only.[477]

477. Supplementary Despatches, etc. , xi. 355.