THE ROYAL ARTILLERY INSTITUTION. 
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NOTES 
ON 
ARTILLERY IN THE FIELD. 
BY 
LT.-COL. W. J. WILLIAMS, R.A., C.B. 
These notes are written with reference to the requirements of European 
war, and not with any regard to the question, To what extent should the 
British army in time of peace be constituted by brigades and divisions ? 
I. 
In the British service, there being no equivalent to the infantry regiment 
of continental armies, we place three or four battalions in a brigade, and we 
are obliged to place three of these small infantry brigades in a division. It 
would be better for us to overcome than to be ruled by the difficulty of 
having no regimental or demi-brigade organisation. With the brigade of 
six battalions 'there would be two infantry brigades in a division. There 
can be no doubt of the advisableness of attaching a regiment of cavalry 
divisionally to every division. In the last war, the Germans attached a rifle 
battalion divisionally to the first division of every corps, and the French 
brigaded a rifle battalion with the first brigade of every division. It would 
seem to be advisable for us to augment our infantry by attaching a rifle 
battalion divisionally to every division. A British division then would 
consist of two infantry brigades, a battalion of rifles, a regiment of cavalry, 
the artillery, the engineers, and the train. 
II. 
In the late war, the Germans had four batteries attached to the division 
and six batteries to the corps, which gave them seven batteries to their 
division of twelve or thirteen battalions and four squadrons. The cavalry 
divisions had their own artillery, in the proportion of one battery to sixteen 
squadrons. The French had three batteries of divisional artillery and two 
batteries of corps reserve artillery for their divisions of thirteen battalions; 
their cavalry divisions of corps had no artillery; their reserve cavalry divi¬ 
sions had a battery to every brigade; there was a main artillery reserve of 
sixteen batteries. Allowing for the difference of strength of the French and 
