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training artillery scouts* 
Ordnance Map in England corresponds approximately as regards scale to 
the maps likely to be used on active service in Europe, and therefore 
should be used for training the men. In India the scale would usually 
be four miles to an inch and would not contain so much detail as 
the 1" map. 
I attach a specimen report and sketch of a section of a good artillery 
position in the neighbourhood; it should not be difficult to train an 
ordinary N.O.O. to this standard, while some men with greater aptitude 
for the work might be trained in the use of the cavalry sketching case. 
The sketch is done on paper the size of the signalling message 
book already referred to. Several names not given on the sketch 
refer to a map supposed to be in possession of the officer who sends 
the man out, and who has given definite instructions what to report on. 
The cross roads at Wiston and near Fenton Farm, the general course 
of the Benton Brook, the position of the bridge over it, would be 
marked for the man before starting, and he should fill in the remain¬ 
ing details. 
These few suggestions are put forward with a view to assisting 
officers in training men in reconnaissance; there are doubtless many 
others which officers of greater experience can put forward in 
addition* 
