sentences:  760 men of the 5th battalion (formerly the Royal Elthorne Light Infantry) was reported to return home on the SS "Assaye" in September 1902, after the war had ended.The 6th battalion (formerly the Royal East Middlesex Militia) was embodied in December 1899 (when it was still the 4th Battalion), and 530 officers and men left for service in South Africa in February 1900.The 1st Battalion landed at Le Havre, as line of communication troops, in August 1914 for service on the Western Front.