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Foreign Stations. 
The Committee will be greatly obliged if a member at each foreign station 
will send to the Secretary R.A.I. answers for that station to each of the questions 
given below. 
These answers are kept in the Institution and are constantly asked for by 
officers under orders to serve abroad; several of the forms have not been revised 
since they were compiled more than twelve years ago and are consequently out 
of date. The answers c'an be tilled in so as to give the fullest information and 
any extra remarks will be welcome. 
Questions :— 
1. To what Military District does it belong ? 
2. What force of Artillery is quartered there ? 
3. Is there a Commanding Officer, R.A., or, if not, where are the Artillery 
Head-quarters ? 
4. What other troops are usually quartered there P 
5. What accommodation as regards Royal Artillery is there for— 
(1.) Field Officers. (2.) Officers in general. (3.) N.-C. officers and 
men. (4.) Married families. (5.) Horses. 
If there is no married accommodation for married Officers, are houses readily 
obtainable ? Should furniture be brought out: if so of what nature ? 
6. Are there any detachments ? If so, where ? 
7. What are the communications ? (As regards stations abroad, where there 
is no railway, full particulars are requested.) 
8. What is the nature of the climate ? (Foreign stations only). 
9. Is there a Regimental Mess, or have batteries stationed here to be self- 
supporting in this respect ? 
10. Please give similar information regarding Canteens and Recreation 
Rooms. 
11. Is there any sport obtainable in the neighbourhood? If so, of what 
kind ? 
12. Please give any information that may bethought useful to Officers when 
ordered to the Station, whether individually or with their Batteries, particularly 
that relating to varieties of clothing according to the changes of season and the 
advisability of bringing clothes out or obtaining them locally. 
Ancient Gun. 
The gun of which a photograph is here reproduced is the property of E. A. 
Lee, Esq., Fowley, Liphook, who has most kindly given the following description 
and details :— 
Three guns (1 perfect and 2 broken) were sent into some iron works, with 
which my father was connected, as old iron. They were said to have been fished 
up from the sea at the mouth of the Bristol Channel somewhere about St. Ives. 
My father took the perfect one and Mr. F. J. Mitchell took the two broken 
ones. 
The dimensions of the perfect one are— 
Length . 5'4" 
Outside diameter . 
Bore where shot went 
Length of bore for shot .. 
Length of bore for powder 
rim 
••• / 2 
... 3'2" 
... 1'9" 
