18 ORGANIZATION AND FUNCTION. 



arrangement was not a success, for the reason that the 

 personnel was constantly subjected to change when Divisions 

 were moved from one Corps to another, so that it was finally 

 decided to replace this temporary scratch arrangement by a 

 properly organised unit of the nature of a Casualty Clearing 

 Station. The result was the incorporation in the veterinary 

 organisation of Veterinary Evacuating Stations, so called to 

 avoid confusion with their counterpart in medical organisation. 



Veterinary Evacuating Stations. 



These were formed by reducing Mobile Veterinary Sections 

 of divisions by the number of privates originally added to them 

 for conducting duties ; also by reducing Veterinary Hospitals on 

 L. of C. The personnel consisted of one officer and 38 other 

 ranks. ■■ 



They were made Army Troops, and allotted, to Corps at the 

 rate of one per Corps. A limited amount of transport only was 

 allotted to them, as they were located in proximity to Corps 

 railhead and movement could be made by rail. They were 

 each provided with a motor horse ambulance — a practically 

 indispensable article of their organisation. These units proved 

 the final and complete link in the chain of evacution of Veteri- 

 nary Services in France, and indisputably earned their place in 

 the organisation of a great army in war. Mobile Veterinary 

 Sections of Divisions and Cavalry Brigades delivered their 

 casualties to them, and they in turn transported them to 

 Eeception Veterinary Hospitals on Lines of Communication. 

 Channels ol Evacuation. 



Evacuation from the Field to Lines of Communication is 

 usually carried out by rail or road. In the former case 

 arrangements are made for trucks on returning empty supply 

 trains, between Officers Commanding Mobile Veterinary 

 Sections or Veterinary Evacuating Stations, and the Eailway 

 Transport Officer at Eailhead. Latterly in France, and 

 particularly when the larger clearing units of Veterinary 

 Evacuating Stations were established, special sick horse trains 

 were arranged at the instance of railway transportation 

 authorities, and were found to be highly satisfactory, both 

 from the point of view of quicker arrival of the sick animals at 



