Natal Naval Volunteers . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Natal Carbineers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465 Natal Mounted Rifles . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 Border Mounted Rifles . . . . . . . . . . . 270 Umvoti Mounted Rifles . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Natal Field Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Natal Royal Rifles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Durban Light Infantry . . . . . . . . . . . 400 Medical Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Veterinary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Natal Mounted Police (Europeans) . . . . . . 649 Thorneycroft's Mounted Infantry . . . . . . 500 Bethune's Mounted Infantry . . . . . . . . . 500 Imperial Light Infantry . . . . . . . . . . 1,000 Imperial Light Horse . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 Colonial Scouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 Ambulance Bearers (1st Section) . . . . . . 1,000 Ambulance Bearers (2d Section) . . . . . . . 600 Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,139 [Sidenote: Cape Colony Forces] Cape Colony, with its larger population, had, however, greater local dangers to face from possible rebels, and men were anxious to organize for local defence as well as for service at the front. But at the same date as the above figures are given for Natal the mother Colony had ten thousand men at the disposal of the General commanding the forces. They included the Kaffrarian Rifles, with 600 men; the Queenstown Rifles, 200 men; the Port Elizabeth Guards, 520 men; the Grahamstown Rifles, 310 men; the Cape Town Volunteers, 3,000 men; the Kimberley Volunteers, 200 men; and the Protectorate Regiment, 800 men. Of Mounted Infantry there were the Cape Mounted Rifles, 800 men; Brabant's Horse, 800 men; Cape Police, 600 men; Kaffrarian Mounted Infantry, 100 men; Frontier Mounted Rifles, 200 men; Diamond Fields' Horse, 400 men; Mafeking Mounted Infantry, 500 men; South African Light Horse, 800 men; Grahamstown Horse, 120 men; Rimington's Scouts, 350 men. [Sidenote: Future of the Colonies]