Household Cavalry

1,490

Cavalry of the Line

29,297

Imperial Yeomanry

1,610

Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Field Artillery..................

34,959

Royal Garrison Artillery

23,174

Royal Engineers

13,757

Foot Guards

9,966

Infantry of the Line

176,580

Colonial Corps and Indian Infantry borrowed for garrison and expeditionary purposes

15,503

*Parliament in 1902 sanctioned 200,300 excess numbers.

†Not formed on Jan. 1st, 1903.

Army Service Corps........................

8,443

Royal Army Medical Corps

6,020

Army Ordanance Corps

2,638

Army Pay Corps

853

Army Post Office Corps

362

It appears from the General Annual Return of the Army that in the year ending Dec. 31st, 1902, 51,677 recruits joined (2,317 for long service, 49,360 for short service), as compared with 47,039 in 1901.

The Strength Of The Army Reserve

from 1898 to 1903 has been as follows: - 1898, 82,063; 1899, 78,839; 1900, 24,388; 1901, 5,434; 1902, 2,573; 1903, 32,865. The reduced numbers since 1901 have been due to Reservists being embodied with the Regulars for the war. The establishment is 80,000, and on April 1st, 1903, the strength had increased to 51,153, leaving 28,847 wanting to complete the establishment. It is impossible to give satisfactory details, there being a large number of men on gratuity furlough, eventually to be transferred to the Reserve.