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242 HISTORICAL RECORDS OF THE1868. Colonel Patterson assumed command of the Nagporeforce, the command of the regiment devolvingon Captain Squirl, who handed it overto Major Battiscombe on the 24th of April.After eight months of Kamptee, thethe welcome route for home, setting91st gotout in twodetachments on the 7th and 8th of October forBombay, where it embarked, under the commandof Colonel Patterson, for Suez on the 12th, arrivingat Alexandria by rail from the latter place onthe 30th of October, on which date it sailed forPortsmouth inH.M. troopship Crocodile, and disembarkedat that port on the15th of November,proceeding by rail to Dover, where Colonel BertieGordon resumed command.Fourteen years had elapsed since the regimentwent on foreign service, and itisworthy of note,that during this long period in many differentquarters, only ten desertions are recorded.In August of this year the name of ColonelBertie Gordon was placed on the list of officersreceiving the reward of 100 a yearfor distinguishedservice.