| Description | Describes the actions and events in which the Battalion was involved and records any promotions, changes in personnel and casualties, with monthly entries from 1897. Some orders, reports, correspondence, tables of staff distribution, and extracts from the London Gazette are copied out, and attached within are several printed programmes for ceremonies, a telegram, and a letter from the 5th (Wellington) Regiment, New Zealand. A typed extract from the Dec 1817 Army List listing the Officers of the 65th and 84th Regiments of Foot, rates of pay and cost of commissions (presented by Col. C.T.W. Hill in 1957) is attached at the front. |