| First Battalion | |
| James Durham Dundas Dec 1877 - Jan 1882 |
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| George Hatchell Jan 1882 - Jan 1886 |
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Charles Pierson Cramer Jul 1887 - Jul 1891 |
| Henry Blackwood MacCall CB Jul 1891 - 1895 |
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| Montagu Charles Brudmall Forestier-Walker Jul 1895 - Apr 1899 |
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Robert George Buchanan-Riddell Apr 1899 - Jan 1900 |
| Second Battalion | |
| Sir Cromer Ashburnham KCB 1880 - Sep 1886 |
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| William Lewis Kinloch Ogilvy CB Nov 1884 - Jul 1887 |
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| Alexander Angus Airlie Kinloch Jul 1887 - Oct 1890 |
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| George Lancelot Mclean Farmer Oct 1890 - 1894 |
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| Hon Keith Turnour Jan 1894 - Sep 1895 |
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| Geoffrey Grimwood Grimwood Sep 1885 - |
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| Third Battalion | |
| Kenneth Gregg Henderson CB June 1880 - Sep 1884 |
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| William Lewis Kinloch Ogilvy CB At Tel-el Kabir 1882 |
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| John Charley Jun 1885 - Jul 1887 |
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George Thomas Whitaker Jul 1887 - Apr 1890 |
| Henry Donald Browne Apr 1890 - Apr 1894 |
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| Richard Steele Rupert Fertherstonhaugh Apr 1894 - Apr 1898 |
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Robert Henry Gunning Apr 1898 - |
| Fourth Battalion | |
| James Sturgeon Hamilton Algar Oct 1880 - 1884 |
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Astley Fellowes Terry Oct 1885 - Jan 1886 |
| Arthur Morris Jan 1886 - Oct 1890 |
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| Reginald Chalmer Oct 1890 - Oct 1894 |
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| Horatio Reginald Mends Oct 1894 - 1898 |
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Edward William Herbert Oct 1898 - |
