Task Organization 3rd Regiment NNC 21-22 January

A bit of a hopeless task but I've been attempting to build a task/organization for the 1st and 2nd Battalions, 3rd Regiment NNC.

Natal Native Contingent Infantry Force
Commandant Rupert Lonsdale, 1/3rd Regt. Natal Native Contingent, Commanding.

1st Battalion, 3rd Regiment Natal Native Contingent (Eight Companies, with Nos. 6 and 9 Coys detached in camp).
Commandant Hamilton-Browne, Commanding in lieu of Commandant Lonsdale.

Staff: Lieut. Henry Harford, detached from 99th Regiment as Staff Officer to Commandant Lonsdale; Lieut. W.D. Campbell, Adjutant.
       
No. 1 Coy:                        Capt. George R. Massey-Hicks; Lieut. William Hicks; 2/Lieut Avery
No. 2 Coy:   Lieut. Francis J. Holcroft
No. 3 Coy:
No. 4 Coy: Lieut. John C. Sutherland
No. 5 Coy:
No. 6 Coy (AmaBele): Capt. Robert Krohn; Lieuts. Gert Adendorff; Walter Higginson*
No. 7 Coy: Lieut. B. Pohl
No. 8 Coy (IziGquoza): Capt. Robert Duncombe (Commdt. Browne’s Interpreter); Senior Sergeant Quin; Induna Umvubie
No. 9 Coy (IziGquoza): Capt. James Lonsdale; Lieuts. T. Vaines; Charles Jameson*
No. 10 Coy (IziGquoza): Capt. P.W. Hayes?

*Detached as part of the defensive force at Isandlwana Camp
**Unknown 1st Battalion Assignment: Capts. R. Develing; Allan Gordon; Stephen S. Harber; P.W. Hayes (Browne says was OIC of rear Coy, No. 10?); Samuel Isaac Hulley; Capt. J. Chapman. Lieuts; C. K. Alloway; J. Brice;; T. Clear; William Fairclough; S. Goldsburg; W.B.D. Long; C. Marillier; R.E. Hughes; Sheppard. Mr. Cooke (Possibly Capt). Lieut. Thomas Purvis was shot in the arm at Sihayo’s Kraal and evacuated to Rorke’s Drift.

2nd Battalion, 3rd Regiment Natal Native Contingent (Eight Companies, with Nos. 4 and 5 Coys detached in camp). Commandant Edward Russell Cooper, Commanding.
No. 1 Coy: Capt. Orlando Murray; Lieut. R.A. Pritchard
No. 2 Coy:
No. 3 Coy:
No. 4 Coy (AmaChunu): Capt. Charles A. Erskine*
No. 5 Coy (AmaChunu): Capt. A. Barry; Lieut. Standish Vereker*
No. 6 Coy:
No. 7 Coy:
No. 8 Coy:
No. 9 Coy:
No. 10 Coy: Lieut. O’Driscoll

*Detached as part of the defensive force at Isandlwana Camp
**Unknown 2nd Battalion Assignment: Capts. R.P. Beverley-Davies; E.L. St. John Greaves; William T. Gubbins; Alexander F. Mackintosh; A.E. Nelson; W.H. Underhill. Lieuts. A.J. Barry; H. Hillier; C. Luyt; P.W. Matthews; John Maxwell; J. Murray; William Murray; C.A. Pegler; F. Ryder; J. Trow; J.B. Vowels; Arthur Wainwright; C.W. Woodfall; W.P. Godfrey; C.N. Manning.
***Charles Newman states that Capt. Murray aided Capt. Duncombe in commanding No. 8 Coy, 1/3rd Regt. at Sihayo’s Kraal. Commandant Browne confirms this incident and that the Murray in question was Capt. Orlando Murray. However, Lieut. Maxwell states that Murray and Pritchard were 2/3rd Regt.
****Lieuts. Arthur Gibson; H. Rivers; Lonsdale Young were also present in camp with the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Regt. but their assignment is unknown. QM McCormack; Dr. Buee; Interpreter S. Grant also left in camp with 1st Battalion.

Michael
I've sent you a pic via messenger .

90th

I believe that Duncombe was 10 coy.

Pritchard, Jameson and Avery.

Julian, why do you have Duncombe in #10? Lost Legionary, admittedly a slightly dubious source, lists #8.

That's a good question which I've been looking for the answer to. I have a feeling It might lie in Maxwell - I haven't found it yet but I'll continue to look.