§ COLONEL HUGHES-HALLETT (ROchester)asked the Secretary of State for War, Whether, in view of the fact that one of the Batteries of the Royal Horse Artillery ordered to be reduced—namely, "E" Battery, "B" Brigade, is the Battery that has earned historic reputation as the "Maiwand" Battery, from the services it performed in that memorable action, when it lost heavily in officers, men, and horses, and yet escaped capture, he will take into consideration the possibility of retaining this Battery on the establishment of the Royal Horse Artillery, or, if necessary, reducing another Battery in its place?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE (Mr. STANHOPE) (Lincolnshire, Horncastle)A Battery of the Royal Horse Artillery having to be reduced, the Rules of the Service prescribed the E Battery as the one for reduction, and though it has a very distinguished record of service, it has no monopoly in that respect among Horse Artillery Batteries. I may add that honours won by individual Batteries accrue to the Royal Regiment of Artillery as a whole; and I am sure, therefore, that the services of the E Battery run no risk of being forgotten.