| First Battalion | |
| Thomas Fraser Dixon July 1879 - 1883 |
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| James Gibbon Smyth July 1884 - 1887 |
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| Matthew William Edward Gosset CB July 1887 - Dec 1890 |
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| William Phibbs Dec 1890 - Aug 1894 |
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| John Morpott Piercy Aug 1894 - 1898 |
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| Horace John James Kentish Aug 1898 |
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| Second Battalion | |
| Joseph William Hughes July 1881 - Dec 1884 |
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| Edward Dorrien Newbolt Dec 1884 - Nov 1887 |
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William Patrick Hodnett Nov 1887 - Nov 1891 |
| Caledon Philip Egerton Nov 1891 - 1897 |
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| Cecil Henry Law Nov 1897 |
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