THE LONDON GAZETTE, MAY 4, 1880.

•duct of -General Sir Frederick to have most distinguished themselves, receive * Roberts in the exercise, of his arduous command, his fullest consideration and support. .and also to express the deep sense entertained 6. His Excellency deplores in-common with by the Government of of the irreparable the whole service the loss of so many gallant \ loss sustained by the Queen and the whole .Em- officers and men, British and Native, among pire in the death of the brave men who have so whom the following appear to have been most nobly perished in the course of these operations. prominent:— J. Cook, V.C., 5th Goorkhas; 4. Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Roberts' Captain K J. Spens, 72nd Highlanders; Cap- •despatch, together with this correspondence, will tain .S. G-. Butson, 9th Lancers; Lieutenant St. be published in the Gazette of India at an early John W. Forbes, 92nd Highlanders; Lieutenant date. C. A.; Montanaro, R. A.; Jemadar Jag Bahadur, Corps of ..Guides; Jemadar Jhunda Sing, 5th Trpm Major-General G-. R. Greaves, C.B., Ad- Punjab Cavalry; Troop 'Sergeant-Major Henry jutant-General in India, to Colonel Allen Spittle, 9th Lancers; Colour-Sergeant James Johnson, Secretary to the Government of Drummond,' 92nd Highlanders; Colour-Sergeant India, Military Department (No. 1628 Camp, John Tule, 72nd Highlanders; Kote-Dnffadar Kabul, dated Head Quarters, Fort William, Jiwant Sing, 5th Punjab Cavalry; Havildar the 9th February, 1880). Sham Sing, 5th Punjab Infantry. I AM directed by his Excellency the Com- The deeds of such men remain for ever in the •mander-in-Chief to forward herewith the de- memory of the army, which, while deeply mourn- spatches of Lieutenant-General Sir F. S. Roberts, ing their loss, dwells with pride on the noble K.C.B., C.I.E., V.C., dated 23rd January, 1880, example of devotion they have set. reporting the events at Kabul during the period 7. Turning from the consideration of these between the 8th and 24th December, 1879. gallant acts, I .am to express to you the pain 2. I am at the same time to transmit a copy with which His Excellency feels it to be his duty of a letter which has been sent to Sir F. 'S. to refer to the affair of the.llth December, when Roberts, recording His Excellency's sentiments so many casualties occurred in the endeavour to in regard to the manner in which the operations extricate the guns of F-A, R.H.A., which had have been conducted, and Sir Frederick Haines eventually to be spiked, and left for a time in 'trusts that the G-overnment of India will concur the hands of the enemy. in the views he has expressed. 8. It is perfectly clear 'that, in obedience to your orders, Brigadier-General Massy, who com-