INSTRUCTION DURING WAR. 93 



to function during war for the training of A.V.C. personnel of 

 the Depots. So that it would be quite feasible at the same 

 time to undertake instruction in Animal Management for 

 Officers and other Eank reinforcements of units as may be 

 desired, even if courses of only ten days were all that could 

 be afforded. It would be a more suitable and convenient pro- 

 ceeding than collecting Officers and other Ranks in the Field 

 at selected centres. During the late Expeditions on the 

 Frontier the latter was adopted by General Officers Command- 

 ing Divisions, Cavaky Brigades and Divisional Areas whenever 

 possible and when other duties did not interfere ; but when 

 establishments are short it is not altogether a practical proposi- 

 tion. However, a few ten days' classes in the Field were 

 arranged, Mobile Veterinary Sections, Field Veterinary 

 Hospitals, and Transport units were used as demonstration 

 units, the A.D.V. S. and A.D.S. and T. of Formations gave 

 lectures and demonstrations on a simple syllabus published in 

 Army Routine Orders. 



In any case, one has to be guided by opportunity and neces- 

 sity while on Field Service. The situation can always be 

 watched, and action taken accordingly. Ways and means may 

 suitably present themselves, and so far as the Front is concerned 

 we may leave it at that. 



Chaptee IV. 



INSTRUCTION IN VIEW OF 

 MEN TAKING THEIR DISCHARGE. 



The Army has accepted the view that its responsibility to the 

 soldier is not altogether confined to his training and use as a 

 fighting man. The Great War has shown that it has another 

 and greater responsibility — that the best years of the soldier's 

 life should not be idly wasted, as it were, but that in view of his 

 return to civil life he should be prepared for some trade or call- 

 ing which will render him economically efficient and a good 

 citizen of his country. A policy of General Educational Train- 

 ing has therefore been introduced into the Army, and without 



