THE ADJUTANCY OP A MILITIA ARTILLERY UNIT. 
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The date fixed for the commencement of the Training fixes the date 
for the commencement of Preliminary Drill; thus, if the Training is to 
commence 1st May, the Preliminary Drill would commence 27th Feb¬ 
ruary, 63 days immediately previous to the Training, 
Recruits. 
All recruits raised for the unit since last training, and who did not 
elect to drill on enlistment, come out for Preliminary Drill, together Regulations, 
with a certain number of trained men—-not exceeding 25 per cent, of 1893 ‘ 
the recruits assembled—for guards, and to act as cooks, &c. 
The Adjutant of the unit is Recruiting Officer of the county to which 
the unit belongs ; the N.-C.O/s of the Permanent Staff being employed 
under him as recruiters. Recruits for the Militia may be enlisted be¬ 
tween the ages of 18 to 35, for a period of six years, for service in 
Great Britain and Ireland ; on completion of which they can re-engage 
for a period of four years, and can re-engage every four years up to the 
age of 45, receiving on each occasion a bounty of thirty shillings. 
On attestation, recruits have the option of drilling on enlistment or 
not; if they elect the former they are at once clothed, and dispatched to 
what is practically the depot for the recruits of the district—in this case, 
the head-quarters of the Lieut.-Colonel Commanding Militia Artillery 
of the District—for 49 days recruit's drill; if the latter, after attesta¬ 
tion, they proceed to their homes and attend the Preliminary Drill of 
the unit, having left their address, to which is sent, a month before the 
commencement of the Preliminary Drill, Army Form E531, called 
“ Notice to Militiamen," informing them of the day and hour at which 
they are to attend at the head-quarters of the unit for Preliminary 
Drill. 
The Unit Buds. 
On attestation recruits are posted to companies, and on assembling 
for Preliminary Drill are medically inspected and clothed ; then drilled 
by the N.-C.O.'s of their company for five hours a day, viz.: 6.45 a.m. 
to 7.45 a.m., 9.45 a.m. to 11.45 a.m., and 1.45 p.m. to 3.45 p.m. 
Assuming the Preliminary Drill to have commenced on the 27th 
February, on the 3rd April, 28 days before the Training, a certain pro¬ 
portion of N.-C.O.'s of the unit, who are desirous of doing so, join, and 
also re-enlisted men and transfers. 
Re-enlisted Men. 
Re-enlisted men are those who, having served 12 years in the army 
(6 in the Army and 6 in the Reserve), and having been discharged 
therefrom with a good character, and being less than 35 years of age, 
enlist into the Militia within three years of the completion of their 
Reserve service; Men of this class, who enlist into the Militia after 
more than three years have elapsed since the completion of their 
Reserve service, join as recruits; thus there are in the unit a consider¬ 
able number of old soldiers, whose value can hardly be over-estimated. 
Transfers. 
Transfers are men transferred from infantry units on the ground that 
