The British Division:  Major-general Gatacre Commanding

  1st Brigade 2nd Brigade
  brigadier-gen.  Wauchope brigadier-gen.  Lyttelton
  1st Btn.  Royal Warwickshire Regt. 1st Btn.  Grenadier Guards
   " " Lincoln Regiment " " Northumberland Fusiliers
   " " Seaforth Highlanders 2nd " Lancashire Fusiliers
   " " Cameron Highlanders " " Rifle Brigade

 The Egyptian Division:  Major-general hunter Commanding

1st Brigade 2nd Brigade 3rd Brigade 4th Brigade col.  Macdonald col.  Maxwell col.  Lewis col.  Collinson 2nd Egyptians 8th Egyptians 3rd Egyptians 1st Egyptians IXth Soudanese XIIth Soudanese 4th " 5th (half) " Xth " XIIIth " 7th " 17th " XIth " XIVth " 15th " 18th "

 Mounted Forces

21st Lancers         Camel Corps        Egyptian Cavalry
colonel Martin       major Tudway       colonel Broadwood
4 squadrons          8 companies        9 squadrons

 Artillery:  Colonel long Commanding

(British)  32nd Field Battery, R.A.(with two 40-pounder guns) 8 guns
"      37th   "      "      "   (5-inch Howitzers)   .    6 guns
(Egyptian) The Horse Battery, E.A. (Krupp)  .     .     .     6 guns
"      No. 1 Field Battery, E.A. (Maxim-Nordenfeldt)      6 guns
"      No. 2   "      "      "    .     .     .     .     6 guns
"      No. 3   "      "      "    .     .     .     .     6 guns
"      No. 4   "      "      "    .     .     .     .     6 guns

 Machine Guns

  (British) Detachment 16th Co.  Eastern Division R.A. . 6 Maxim
      " " Royal Irish Fusiliers . . 4 "
  (Egyptian) 2 Maxim guns to each of the five
                Egyptian batteries . . . . 10 "

Engineers

Detachment of Royal Engineers

The Flotilla:  Commander Keppel

1898 Class Armoured Screw Gunboats (3):  the Sultan, the Melik, the Sheikh

each carrying:  2 Nordenfeldt guns
1 quick-firing 12-pounder gun
1 Howitzer
4 Maxims

1896 Class Armoured Screw Gunboats (3):  the Fateh, The Naser, the Zafir

each carrying:  1 quick-firing 12-pounder gun
2 6-pounder guns
4 Maxims

Old Class Armoured Stern-wheel Gunboats (4):  the Tamai, the Hafir*,
the Abu Klea, the Metemma

each carrying:  1 12-pounder gun
2 Maxim-Nordenfeldt guns

Steam Transport

5 Steamers:  The Dal, The Akasha, the Tahra, The Okma, the Kaibar

[The steamer El Teb, wrecked at the Fourth Cataract in 1897, had been
refloated, and to change the luck was renamed Hafir.]