+-------------------------------+-----------+------------+ | _Regiments._ |_Osmanieh._|_Medjidieh._| +-------------------------------+-----------+------------+ |General officers | 4 | 6 | |Staff officers | 51 | 94 | |1st Life Guards (one squadron) | 1 | - | |2nd Life Guards (one squadron) | 1 | 1 | |Roy. Horse Gds. (one squadron) | - | 1 | |4th Drag. Gds. | - | 3 | |7th Drag. Gds. | 2 | 1 | |19th Hussars | 2 | 1 | |Royal Artillery | 3 | 18 | |Roy. Engineers | 1 | 4 | |Grenadier Gds. | 2 | 2 | |Coldstream Gds. | 3 | 1 | |Scots Guards | 3 | 1 | |Royal Irish | 3 | 1 | |38th South Staffords | 2 | 2 | |42nd Roy. Highlanders | 3 | 1 | |46th Cornwall L.I. | 3 | 1 | |50th West Kent | 3 | 1 | |60th King's Royal Rifles | 3 | 1 | |72nd Seaforth Highlanders | 3 | 1 | |74th High. L.I. | 2 | 2 | |79th Cameron Highlanders | 3 | 1 | |84th York and Lancaster | 3 | 1 | |87th Roy. Irish Fusiliers | 3 | 1 | | ---- | | | |2nd Gardner's Horse | 1 | 2 | |6th K.E.O. Cavalry | 1 | 2 | |13th Watson's Horse | 1 | 1 | |2nd Q.O. Sappers and Miners | 1 | 1 | |7th Rajputs | 1 | 2 | |20th Brownlow's Punjabis | 1 | 2 | |129th Baluchis | 1 | 2 | +-------------------------------+-----------+------------+ NILE, 1884-85. This distinction was conferred on the regiments which, under Generals Earle and Sir Herbert Stewart, essayed to save General C. Gordon, R.E., then hemmed in by fanatical Moslems at Khartoum. The regiments entitled to bear the honour are the 19th Hussars. Royal Irish. Cornwall Light Infantry. Royal Sussex. South Staffordshire. Royal Highlanders. Essex. Royal West Kent. Gordon Highlanders. Cameron Highlanders.