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Review on Southsea Common in honour of the Ameer's son: watching The March Past,1895. 'On the Queen's birthday, the Royal Indian Marine transport Clive, with the second son of the Ameer of Afghanistan on board, steamed into Portsmouth Harbour. Admiral Sir Gerald Seymour Fitzgerald, K.C.I.E., Sir John McNeill, V.C., Sir Nowell Salmon, V.C., K.C.B., Commander-in-Chief, Lieutenant-General Davies, C.B., commanding the Southern Military District, Admiral-Superintendent Fane, Captain Shawe-Taylor, A.D.C., and others, including the Mayor of Portsmouth, were waiting to receive his Highness, and gave him his first welcome to our shores. Having landed, he proceeded to Southsea Common, where about five thousand soldiers and bluejackets were paraded'. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.