POLITICAL HISTORY and are therefore entitled to wear the word 'Mediterranean' on their colours.^" The Northamptonshire and Rutland Militia also took part in the South African War, 1899-1902.==' No names of officers or men belonging to the regiment, however, appear amongst those inscribed on a tablet in memory of Lieutenant the Hon. C. M. Evans-Freke, i6th Lancers, and twelve Rutland non-commissioned officers and men, serving with various other regiments who fell in the war, which was unveiled by General Sir Bruce Hamilton in All Saints' Church, Oakham, on 13 November 1904, and to the names recorded on which that of Private T. Dawson, ist Battalion Leicestershire Regiment, inadvertently omitted, must be added. The regiments referred to comprise six of infantry and three of cavalry of the Regular Army the Royal Artillery, the 7th Imperial Yeomanry, and the Oakham Company of the ist Volunteer Battalion Leicestershire Regiment.'^^ ! ^f "fO"' Rrsnvf Forces, by A Militia Officer, 15,16. In order of precedence the regiment ranked forty-eighth out of 135 milit.a regiments ini87o ; ibid. 77. This work, which was written in 1870, speaks of the amalgamated corps as domg duty in the Mediterranean, but it would appear from the above authorities m ^""^""^ ^"° Northamptonshire were still distinct units at the time of the Crimean War. R. M. de Rudolf, Short Hist, of the Territorial Regts. 447-80. ^^^ Rut. Mag. ii, 6-13. There is also an Uppingham Company of the Lincolnshire Volunteers. A lerntorial torces Association for Rutland was formed early in 1 90S, the president of which is the Earl of Oamsborough, the lord lieutenant ol the county, and the military member. Colonel F. G. Blair, C B Leicestershire Imperial Yeomanry. Army List, 1908. 209 27
