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militiaman until called cut for permanent service: when so called out 
his place in the militia is considered vacant, and is to be filled up. 
It is evident that “Calling out the Reserves” does not necessarily 
imply calling out the whole of the Reserves, and that the War Office 
must decide when the occasion arises, as to what class or classes of the 
Reserve are to be called out, or to what extent any particular class 
shall be called out-— i.e., whether men with one, two, or three years or 
more of unexpired Reserve Service shall be exempted. 
The Militia Reserve may be called out before the Army Reserve is 
touched; bub it has been decided that in the event of Mobilisation for 
Home Defence, the Militia Reserve men will remain with their Militia 
units. In spite of this, however, we must remember that at the begin¬ 
ning of a war, which did not appear to warrant complete mobilisation, 
the Militia Reserve might be called upon to furnish drafts for the 
Garrison Artillery, and that subsequent events might necessitate com¬ 
plete mobilisation, which would then have to be carried out with a 
reduced strength of Militiamen, notwithstanding the decision above- 
mentioned. The contingency, however, is a very remote one as regards 
the artillery, and, owing to the fact that it would affect the Garrison 
Artillery, which is maintained at war strength in peace time, there is 
very little prospect of any dislocation in existing arrangements for 
mobilisation. 
We will now pass to a more detailed consideration of each branch of 
the artillery, taking them seriatim in the following order :— 
(i.) Royal Horse and Field Artillery, and Staffs. 
(ii.) Ammunition Columns. 
(iii.) Garrison Artillery (R.A.) 
(iv.) Militia Artillery. 
(v.) Volunteer Artillery. 
CHAPTER II. 
I.—Royal Horse and Field Artillery. 
No Batteries of Horse or Field Artillery are allotted to garrisons, 
the whole of them are allotted to the Field Army for Home Defence 
(which includes the Field Force for Service Abroad) with the following 
exceptions :— 
(a.) The Field Artillery Depot Batteries. 
(b.) The two Field Batteries at Athlone, which are “ unallotted.” 
The Field Artillery Depots will not be mobilised for service, and no 
additional equipment is therefore provided ; they will be fully occupied 
in carrying out administrative duties in connection with the mobilisation 
and feeding of the Service Batteries and A_mmunition Columns. 
The following table shows the allotment of Horse and Field Bat¬ 
teries, Ammunition Columns, and R.A. Staffs, both for the Field Force 
for Service Abroad and the Field Army for Home Defence. This table 
gives the allotment by stations and not by units in the case of the 
Batteries and Ammunition Columns, as the designation of the units is 
constantly changing, whereas the number and nature of the units at 
each station (except during relief) is always the same. The staffs are 
formed on mobilisation, and do not exist as units in peace time ; the 
