8 ORGANIZATION AND FUNCTION. 



so happily constituted should be continued, and be transformed 

 into an assimilation or fusion of Service throughout the Empire. 

 If India is by any mischance shut off from the West, there is 

 an efficient field available on her East. 



To deal more closely with the subject under review, it will be 

 convenient to divide it under the following headings : — 



Administration. 



Personnel. 



Eegimental Veterinary Assistance. 



Evacuation of sick and wounded. 



Veterinary Hospitals and Convalescent Horse Depots. 



Supply and distribution of veterinary equipment 

 and medicines. 



Bacteriological Laboratories. 

 At the outset I desire to pay a tribute of grateful acknow- 

 ledgement to the constant sympathy and material assistance 

 given by those in authority at General Headquarters, and by 

 General Officers of Commands and Formations, to a Corps 

 which was practically untried in its war organisation. Without 

 such help under circumstances which were difficult, and at times 

 critical, the individual efforts of the Corps itself would have 

 been of little avail to achieve so high a degree of efficiency as 

 was, without doubt, attained during the late war. 



Chap. II.— ADMINISTKATION. 



The Army Veterinary Service, being one of the Administrative 

 Services, has a Director as its Head. He in common with other 

 Directors acts under the Q.M.G. of the Force, who is virtually 

 a Chairman of a Board of Directors. 



The duties of the Director of Veterinary Services and the 

 location of the Headquarters of his Directorate are laid down in 

 Field Service Regulations, Part II, Sections 22 and 23. 



At first the majority of the Directors of the British Expedi- 

 tionary Force, France, were under the I. G.C., a Deputy Director 

 of each Service being at G.H.Q. with the Q.M.G. This was 

 subsequently altered to Directors being under Q.M.G. direct. So 

 far as the Veterinary Directorate is concerned, the latter dis- 

 position and location is the correct one, as the Director having 



