35 ORGANIZATION AND FUNCTION. 



Base Depots ol Veterinary stores. 



A Base Depot or Depots of Veterinary Stores is held ready 

 in peace time, and despatched with an Expeditionary Force. 

 They are located at the Base, as the name indicates. The 

 amount of stores they maintain is calculated to last three 

 months. They function for all Veterinary Hospitals and units 

 on L. of C. and feed the Advanced Depots. 



Eeplenishment is made either by mdent on the Army 

 Veterinary Stores, Woolwich, or by local pm'chase, whichever 

 is cheaper. In India, Medical Store Depots take the place of 

 Army Veterinary Stores, and all replenishments are made 

 through them. 



Proper ledger accounts are kept and are scrutinised by the 

 Director of Veterinary Services and Financial Adviser as may 

 be deemed necessary. 



The establishment consists of one officer and six other ranks. 

 The officer may be a well proved warrant officer, E.A.V.C, 

 promoted to temporary commissioned rank, the services of a. 

 Veterinary Officer thereby being saved. 



Advanced Depots of Veterinary Stores. 



These small units of one sergeant and three other ranks are 

 formed in the field, and their function is to supply field units. 

 Though their allotment may be at the rate of one per Army, 

 the actual number required and their distribution depends on 

 circumstances of railway arrangements. 



Experience has shown that they are best located at Eegulating 

 Stations, and the forward despatch of stores to units at the front 

 carried out through the Military Forwarding Officers at these 

 places. In France, until this was done there was constant 

 trouble, and stores were frequently lost. Only three Advanced 

 Depots of Veterinary Stores were formed in the British 

 Expeditionary Force. One was subsequently withdrawn to a 

 Base Depot and converted into a repair unit, the Base Depot 

 functioning for both L. of C. and the Armies fed from that. 

 Base. 



Supply and Distribution ol Veterinary Equipment, 

 with Field Units. 



This has already been alluded to, and little more remains to- 

 be said. All units mobilised with certain articles of Field 



