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Station Equipment when in Ordnance Store charge, and ascertain its 
condition, on his notifying to the Ordnance Store Officer his intention 
to do so, in order that the latter officer or his representative may bo 
present.” 1 
There are many minor details which have to be attended to by the 
Officer Commanding the Battery before leaving his Peace Station, such 
as the securing of the soldier's description card (Army Form B. 2007) 2 
in the skirt of the frock, the supply of books and stationery as per ap¬ 
pendix VII., “ Manual for Field Service,” stamping leather labels for 
harness if the battery is ordered on foreign service, &c., &c., each of 
which is most important for the subsequent comfort of the battery ; full 
details on such points are given in the Handbook and Manual for Field 
Service. 
CHAPTER III. 
Regimental Staffs. 
The Regimental Staffs of Corps Artillery are detailed as follows :— 
Officers.—By the Military Secretary. 
N.-C.O/s and men.—By the Deputy-Adjutant-General, R.A.: the 
personnel, as regards N.-C.O.'s and men, may consist partly 
of specially selected N.-C.O.’s detailed or appointed by the 
Deputy-Adjutant-General on mobilisation, and partly of 
N.-C.O.'s and men furnished from stations, on a detail 
given in peace time by the Officer Commanding Horse and 
Field Artillery, Woolwich, in the same way, as has already 
been explained, for mobilising Batteries and Ammunition 
Columns. 
The R.A. Staff for the Artillery of the Infantry Divisions is included 
in the Divisional Staff. 
On Mobilisation for Home Defence, the Colonel Commanding Corps 
Artillery will detail one of his officers to take over the equipment for the 
Staff : this equipment, including transport, is kept at the places given in 
the Mobilisation Tables (see pp. 278-9) by the Ordnance Store Depart¬ 
ments; the officer who takes over the equipment and transport becomes 
an accountant; the Army Forms, books, &c., which he will require are 
included in the list given in Appendix VII., Manual for Field Service. 
The horses will be drawn at the places laid down in the Mobilisation 
Tables in the manner already described at p. 273, (h), under the head 
of Duties of Officers Commanding Units. The Colonel Commanding 
Corps Artillery will issue his own orders as to the assembly of his staff. 
In order to be able to mobilise the staff without delay or friction, it is 
obvious that any officer who has received confidential instructions that 
he will be in command of the Corps Artillery of one of the Army 
Corps, should also be in possession of the detail of his staff, and that he 
should be empowered to inspect the equipment and transport allotted 
to him. 
The procedure on Mobilisation for Service Abroad is practically the 
1 Equipment Regulations, Part II., Peace, Section XI., as amended by A.O. April 1st, 1892, 
paras. 20 and 20c. 
2 Queen’s Regulations, Sec. XII., para. 53. 
