228
GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
Years 18C8-G3.
Officers
Non-commis- sioned officers, trumpeters,
and drummers
Rank and file
Recapitulation : Total, general and departmental staff „ regiments .... „ depots of Indian regiments . „ recruiting and teaching establish-^ ments .... J ,, training schools and factories.
Total force, officers and men, the cost of ~\ which is defrayed from Army Grants/
1,239
5,037
227
23
59
11,197 454
85
331
90,593 5,513
62
17
6,585
12,267
96,185
. —
—
115,037
As a supplement to the regular army estimates, enumerated above, the House of Commons granted, on the 2nd August, 1870, supplies for raising ' a further number of land forces not exceeding 20,000 men, during the war in Europe.' Excepting this supplementary- vote, the army estimates of 1870-71 showed a decrease of 12,329 men over the previous year, and of 28,654 over 1868-G9. The number of men provided for in the estimates of 1868-69 was 138,691, while in the estimates of 1869-70 the number was 127,366. The decrease embraced chiefly the royal artillery, infantry of the line, and colonial corps. Three previously existing branches of the army, the Military Train, the Commissariat Staff Corps, and Store Staff Corps were abolished in 1870, and for them was substituted the Army Service Corps.
The British forces in India, exclusive of depots at home, comprise the following troops, granted by Parliament for the year 1870-71 :—
Troops
Officers
Non-commis- sioned officers, trumpeters, and drummers
Rank and file
Royal horse artillery Cavalry of the line . Royal artillery and engineers Infantry of the line .
Total .
200
225
1,016
1.500
253
424
795
3.262
2,680
3,672
7,936
41,000
2,941
4,734
62,963
The total force of the British army in India amounted, conse- quently, to 62,963 men in the estimates of 1870-71. The number iu the year 1868-9 was 64,466, while in the year 1869-70 it was 63,707.
The troops here enumerated do not constitute the whole army of the United Kingdom ; but the army estimates for 1870-71, as well as
