After taking part in the review which followed this ceremony, the Battalion proceeded the same evening to Liverpool, where they embarked the following day for Dublin. And on their arrival there Head-quarters and five companies occupied Beggar’s-bush barracks, and the other three companies Linen-hall barracks. A letter was issued from the War Office, dated September 22, 1857, by which a 4th Battalion was directed to be added to the Regiment. This Battalion was therefore immediately formed at Winchester under Lieutenant-Colonel Elrington, who was promoted from Senior Major on September 1. Recruiting at once commenced, and transfers were received from the 1st and 2nd Battalions, and from some other regiments, so that by the end of the year the Battalion had attained a strength of 28 sergeants, 10 corporals, 15 buglers and 413 privates. They proceeded by rail on December 15 from Winchester to Chichester. [Illustration: Plate IV. RIFLE BRIGADE, 1856 TO 1860.] FOOTNOTES: [218] An engraving of this camp of the 1st Battalion will be found in the ‘Illustrated London News,’ vol. xxv. p. 320. [219] Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur J. Lawrence, K.C.B. [220] Being a total of 33 officers, and 959 of inferior ranks. With these numbers the ‘Medical History,’ i. 452, nearly agrees: it enumerates 32 officers and 961 of inferior ranks. [221] Colonel Newdigate, Commanding Rifle Depôt. [222] During the months of July and August, while the Battalion was in Bulgaria, it lost thirty men from cholera. ‘Medical and Surgical History of the British Army,’ ii. 50. [223] Major-General Elrington, C.B. [224] Colonel Fyers, C.B. (retired). [225] Colonel the Hon. W. J. Colville. [226] Major-General Norcott, C.B. [227] Kinglake, vol. ii. 187. [228] Major-General W. H. Bradford. [229] Sir Arthur Lawrence’s letters, and information from Colonel Fyers. [230] Record of 1st Battalion, and see p. 309. But Surgeon Bowen, in the ‘Medical and Surgical History of the British Army,’ states the total loss from cholera during the month to be thirteen, and that all, with one exception, occurred on the line of march. [231] An engraving of ‘Riflemen in the Trenches’ is in the ‘Illustrated London News,’ vol. xxv. p. 573. [232] Wheatley entered my service as lodge-keeper at Bramshill Park on his discharge, and died May 21, 1865. [233] ‘Letters from Head-Quarters by a Staff Officer,’ [Colonel the Hon. S. Calthorpe], p. 101. [234] Hannan was one of a hundred men given by the 1st to the 2nd Battalion, before they embarked for the Crimea. He had been noted for his daring in the Kaffir War. He and Ferguson were fellow-countrymen, both being from the north of Ireland. [235] ‘Illustrated London News,’ vol. xxv. p. 466. The newspaper writer who records this, while doubting the accuracy of the estimate of the number of the enemy killed on the 19th, states this fact of the four Riflemen as ‘certain.’ [236] Ibid. vol. xxv. p. 487.