3-065-789 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Return of the troops from the Ashantee War: arrival of the Sarmatian with the 42nd - the first note of welcome, 1874. Third Anglo-Ashanti War. 'The famous "Black Watch," the 42nd Royal Highlanders, arrived at Portsmouth in the Sarmatian, on Monday at eleven in the forenoon. Officers and men returning are 530 in number, under Lieutenant-Colonel M'Leod, C.B., with Majors Duncan Macpherson and E. C. Scott. With these came Brigadier- General Sir Archibald Alison, Major Home, R.E., and several other officers; the Sarmatian also brought forty men of the Army Service Corps. Their reception on landing, at two in the afternoon, was much like that of the Welsh Fusiliers, on the Friday before'. From "Illustrated London News", 1874.