British Camel Corps
Unit	12-25-1884		1-17-1885
O	OR	O	OR
Heavy	10	153	24	376
Light	6	113	-	-
Guards	15	278	19	365*
Mounted Inf.	22	389	24	359
Naval Brig.	-	-	5	53#
Cavalry
19th Hussars	15	275	8	127

O=Officers, OR=Other Ranks, *includes the Royal Marines, # 1 Gardner gun

Heavy Camel Corps
1 company 4O 86OR 1 & 2 Life Guards
2 company 40 86OR Royal Horse Guards & Queens Bays
3 company 4O 86OR 4 & 5 Drag. Guards
4 company 4O 86OR Scots Greys & Royal Dragoons
5 company 4O 86OR 5 & 16 Lancers

Light Camel Corps
2O and 43OR from each of 9 Hussar Regiments.

Guards Camel Corps
2O and 43OR from each of 7 Guards Regiments. Plus 4O and 102OR Royal Marines

Mounted Infantry Camel Corps

A company
1O and 30OR from each
So. Staffs
Black Watch
Gordons
KRRC

B company
1O and 30OR from each
W. Kent
Sussex
Essex
Duke of Cornwall L.I.

C company
2O and 60OR each
KRRC
Rifles

D company
1O and 30OR from each
Somerset L.I.
W. Kent
Connaugt Rangers
Royal Scot. Fus.

Egyptian Army
Year	Inf. Btn	Cav. Trps	Camel Coys	Art. Btty*
1883	8	2	1	1
1885	9/1S	8	3	4
1886	13/3S	8	3	4
1888	13/5S	8	3	4
1891	14/6S	5	6	6
1896	16/6S	9	6	6
1897	18/6S	10	8/4S	6

S = Sudanese: for example in 1885 the Egyptian Army has 9 Battalions of Infantry one of which is Sudanese. * = 6 gun batteries

Until 1890 the Sudanese battalion consisted of 4 coys of 150 men, after 1890 it changed to 6 coys of 150 men. For the Egyptians until 1898 the battalions consisted of 4 coys of 200 men, after 6 coys of 200 men. The Egyptian Camel Corps was made up of companies of 150 men. For the Egyptian cavalry until 1890 they were formed in troops of 70 men, after 1890 in squadrons of 150 men and the front rank then carried lances.

With this in mind and that currently I can only afford small units (until the future, if Gerry does come out with some other figs I got to have) I’ll enlarge the units but not the number of units. Since my Sudan project(s) are geared toward the 1885-1889 period I am trying to conform to what the various armies had available during that time. I also figured that I would not have the entire Egyptian army available to me to use on campaign so all unit numbers were halved. Rather than having 8 troops of dragoons available I have four, etc. I also keep my eye on the numbers of sick/in hospital(when I can find it) before each historic campaign so that no field unit is ever up to full paper strength.

My mounted units are based on approximately 1 fig = 10 to 20 recorded men. I know that is a big spread but some units are already filled out and others will have to wait until I can afford more, especially since some units not only require a dismounted figs but the later Egyptian cavalry need to replace their front line with lancers. So one Egyptian Dragoon could consist of two riders, a horse, and dismounted fig. Instead of a simple cav unit of six figures (officer, bugler & four other ranks) representing 70 man troops that same unit has two more figs (lancers) for the front rank. I’m already confused. Then of course it continues to change in 1890 when the Egyptian army changes from 70 man troops to squadrons of 150 and goes from 8 troops to 5 squadrons than more squadrons, what fun, now how many is that in figures. I don’t know who’se on first????