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91ST ARGYLLSHIRE HIGHLANDERS. 241Hay, the colonel of the 91st. A Benevolent Club 1864.Fund was started in connection with it, having asits object, besides the annual social meeting of thosewho may have been long separated, thestartingof a charitable fund, which could disburse smallcontributions in aid of anyone who had been inthe regiment, and whom misfortunes may haveovertaken.In January, 1865, Colonel Gordon arrived at i865.Jubbulpoor, and assumed command of the regiment.In December of the same year, the 91stleft that station, and proceeded partly on foot andpartly by train to Dumdum, which itreached onthe llth. While at this place Colonel Gordon'shealth broke down, and on recommendation of amedical board, he left India for Europe in October,1866, handing over the command of the regiment isee.to Major Battiscombe.After staying a year at Dumdum, the 91st wereremoved in January to Hazaareebagh. In No- 1867.vember, Colonel W. T. L. Patterson rejoinedandtook command of the regiment. On the 1st ofDecember the regiment set out again for Kamptee,which it reached after a long and tediousjourney, partly on foot and partly by train, onthe 26th of January, 1868. On the 2nd of April16