14 ORGANIZATION AND FUNCTION. 



If Cavalry operates as a Corps, say of two or three Cavalry 

 Divisions, it is necessary to add to Corps Headquarters an 

 Administrative Veterinary Officer and an Executive Veterinary 

 Officer for Corps Troops. 



Sergeants, R.A.V.C., and Farriers ol Units. 



Veterinary Officers in charge of units require v^ithin those 

 units someone to represent the Veterinary Service, to render 

 first aid, to report sickness to them and to carry out their 

 instructions with regard to treatment or evacuation. In the 

 old or Eegular Army this representation was effected by the 

 Farrier Sergeants of units (i.e. Squadrons, Batteries, Field 

 Companies E.E., A.S.C. Companies, Infantry Transport 

 Sergeants, etc.), who were sent in peace time to Army Veteri- 

 nary Schools for instruction ; but in units of the new armies, 

 where farriers were not only untrained in veterinary matters, 

 but had enough to do in shoeing animals (their first and 

 essential duty) representation was vested in Sergeants, A.V.C., 

 specially attached under War Establishments in consequence 

 of an enforced reduction in Veterinary Officers. The success 

 of these N.C.O. has already been alluded to, and it is a war 

 measure which has everything to commend it. 



Veterinary Assistants. 



In India Veterinary representation in units of Indian Cavalry, 

 Mountain Artillery and Transport is by means of Veterinary 

 Assistants of the Indian Veterinary Corps, two Veterinary. 

 Assistants being allotted to each Silladar Eegiment and each 

 Mule, Bullock and Camel Corps, and one Veterinary Assistant 

 to each Indian Mountain Battery. 



Veterinary Aid Post. 



The bulk of Transport in India is utilised on Lines of Com- 

 munication, and a feature of veterinary organisation of the 

 nature of " Veterinary Aid Posts " has been adopted during 

 recent operations at various staging points en route. Each 

 Veterinary Aid Post consists of a Veterinary Assistant detailed 

 from a transport unit and one or two " Dressers," with a small 

 amount of veterinary equipment. 



