"Volunteer Service Gazette and Military Dispatch — Saturday 30 March 1861
SURREY. i The members of the Ist Surrey Hides assembled m the Oval, Kcnnington, on Saturday last. The first bugle sounded at cite>.m. After the brass band, under the direction of Bandmaster J. Callcott, the Ist Surrey Militia, had | nlaved selection of favourite, airs, the men, having pre- viously been furnished with five rounds of ammimition, were formed into seven companies, numbering about 300 rank and , file, with cadet corps of about 25; and, after undergoing light infantry drill, which was performed with much pre- ] cision, especially the wheeling, the corns left the Oval, and, commanded Lieutenant-Colonel Macdonald, marched along the Clapham-road, Clapham-common, the men marching very steadily. On arriving at the common a few minutes before six o'clock, a company was detached to keep the -round, the number of spectators being large. The corps then throw out skirmishers in the face of an enemy supposed to advancing the suburbs from Wandsworth-common, 7
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