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EXTRACTS FROM THE “ REVUE D J ARTILLERIE , 3> 
The total strength of the regiment is 64 officers, 221 sergeants and 
corporals, 36 trumpeters, 591 privates, 272 horses and 128 mules. 
The artillery train consists of 2 officers, 6 sergeants and corporals, 
1 trumpeter, 5 artificers, 15 drivers, and 27 horses. 
The arsenal is under a Lieut.-Colonel, as before stated, with a staff 
of a major and 6 other officers. 
The company of artificers consists of a captain and 5 junior officers, 
1 chief mechanician (a civilian), 2 civilian firemen, 110 artificers, clerks, 
store keepers, &c., and 20 apprentices. 
The staff of the powder factory consists of 1 captain, 1 lieutenant, 
1 civilian (chief of the factory) 3 sergeants and 10 artificers (powder 
makers). 
The detachment of special artificers is under a lieutenant aided by a 
civilian (artificer-in-chief), 2 sergeants and 11 rank and file skilled 
artificers. 
The ordnance store is under a major, with a staff of 19 officers, 
10 sergeant majors, and 5 clerks. 
Total strength of arsenal establishment, 37 officers, 6 military 
artificers in chief, 38 sergeants and corporals, 2 trumpeters, 5 civilian 
artificers, 100 military artificers, 25 privates. 
Before the above organisation was completed, the government of 
Greece, in consequence of their strained relations with another power. 
Was compelled on the 5th August, 1880, to issue a decree for the 
immediate mobilisation of the army. No new field or mountain batteries 
were created, but the strength of each of the former was raised to 175 
of all ranks, 32 riding and 120 draught horses ; and of the latter to 182 
of all ranks, 23 riding horses and 205 mules. Two batteries of position 
were raised, of the same joersonel as the field batteries, and formed into 
a division by themselves, also a depot company of 1 officer and 28 men, 
a transport company to convey ammunition for the field artillery 
division, and two transport companies to carry that for the two divisions 
of mountain artillery. Each of the companies consisted of:— 
2 Officers. 4 Artificers. 
7 Sergeants and Corporals. 60 Muleteers. 
1 Trumpeter. 
Total 74, with 10 horses and 61 mules. 
Thus, the war strength of the whole of the artillery, including its 
special transport train, is 3,300 of all ranks, 1,190 horses, and 2,350 
mules, with 84 guns; the total fighting strength of the army, as 
mobilised, being 42,590 men, 3,280 horses, and 7,540 mules, with 
7,500 non-effective and 450 horses; the latter comprising depots, 
gendarmerie, manufacturing establishments, &c. 
