The only fairly complete regiment engaged in the campaign was the 1st Hampshire, and this, together with detachments of the Norfolks, Yorkshires, and Rifle Brigade, and units of the Royal Engineers and Army Service Corps, formed the only English Corps engaged. The rest of the expedition included the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 5th King's African Rifles; Bikanir Camel Corps; Kajawa Corps; Gudabursi Horse; Rajputs; Sikhs; Punjabees and Indian Mounted Infantry; also the crews of fourteen H.M. ships.
=Nigeria, 1902-6.=--At the battle of Jidballi the Mullah's army of 5,000 men were defeated by this little force, over 1,000 of the enemy being killed. The loss in British officers was great; Captain Lister of the 10th Hussars, heir to Lord Ribbledale, and 2 others being killed, and 9 wounded. In 1905 the bar for S. NIGERIA 1902-03 was issued to those who were engaged in South Nigeria between July 1902 and June 1903, against the Iris and the Omonoha and Ebima tribesmen, and in the operations against the Chief Adukukaiku of Igarra. In 1906 it was decided to give the same bar to those who took part in the expedition in the Afikpo district between December 1902 and January 1903. In April 1905 a bar was issued inscribed S. NIGERIA 1903 to those who had taken part in the operations between April and July 27th, 1903. In 1906 it was decided that the war should be issued to those who had taken part in the expeditions in the Ebegga country west of Anan. In April 1905 an Army Order set forth that a bar was to be issued to N. NIGERIA 1903, and granted to those who took part in the Sokoto-Burmi operations between April 15th and July 27th, 1903. In January 1906 a bar for N. NIGERIA 1903-04 was authorised for distribution among the 700 native soldiers and carriers engaged in the operations in the Bassa Province between December 1903 and March 1904. A bar for N. NIGERIA 1904 was granted to those who took part in four little expeditions, and S. NIGERIA 1903-04 to those employed in the expedition between December 1903 and January 1904 against the towns of Osca, Oriri, and N'doto. The bar for S. NIGERIA 1904 was added for a series of five expeditions, and a further addition to the Nigerian clasps was made in June 1906 by the approval of one inscribed S. NIGERIA 1904-05, given for operations between November 1894 and February 1895 in the Ibibio and Kwa countries. The bar for S. NIGERIA 1905 was awarded to members of the force which operated in the Kwale district between October 10th and 18th, 1905, both dates inclusive. The bar for S. NIGERIA 1905-06 was issued to those who took part in the Bende-Onitsha Hinterland expedition, and the bar for N. NIGERIA 1906 was given to those who took part in the operations against the Satiru rebels and the Emir of Hadeija. The bar for KISSI 1905 was awarded to those engaged in that district from March to June 1905, and for NANDI 1905-06 to those employed in that neighbourhood between October 1905 and July 1906, making a total of twenty-seven bars to this medal, and indicating the constant vigilance and discipline which is necessary to maintain the outposts of our Empire.