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ARTILLERY MOBILISATION. 
The Colonel Commanding Corps Artillery would place himself in 
communication with Officers Commanding Batteries and Ammunition 
Columns, through the medium of the Lieut.-Colonels Commanding 
Horse and Field Artillery Divisions, as soon as mobilisation is ordered ; 
by this means the chain of responsibility, and system of command to 
be adopted between the time the units leave their Peace Station and 
join at the place of concentration, will be at once established. It must 
be remembered that on the day a unit leaves its place of mobilisation 
(i.e. } Peace Station) it comes under the orders of the Officer Command¬ 
ing the formation to which it is allotted in the Mobilisation Tables. 
It will be necessary for the Colonel Commanding to inform the Lieut.- 
Colonels Commanding Horse and Field Artillery Divisions, how he 
wishes the staff mobilised and concentrated, and to issue orders for 
the guidance of the Medical and Veterinary Officers. These arrange¬ 
ments should all be cut and dried in peace time, and the orders to be 
issued or acted upon on mobilisation, drawn up beforehand. In many 
cases the various items which compose a staff on mobilisation are con¬ 
siderably scattered in peace time, and a feeling of confidence and 
cohesion will be established if the said items are definitely informed by 
their “ mobilisation ” chief, as to the course of action they are required 
to take on leaving their Peace Stations. In other words, the establish¬ 
ment of personal relations between the chief and his staff should be 
commenced before the items composing that staff leave their Peace 
Stations, instead of allowing them to turn up as they please at the 
place of concentration at all sorts of times, groping about for their 
head-quarters and endeavouring to elicit information from others who 
are as vague as themselves, and who will probably meet their enquiries 
with the time-honoured reply : “Pm a stranger in these parts myself.” 
We have now to consider the R.A. Staff of the Field Artillery Divi¬ 
sion of an Infantry Division. This Staff is not a separate unit like the 
Regimental Staff of the Corps Artillery, but is part and parcel of the 
Staff of an Infantry Division. The Staff of an Infantry Division is 
precisely the same whether for home service or service abroad, the only 
difference being in the attached details, viz.:—• 
Home Service. Service Abroad. 
Army Service Corps. 13 all ranks . 28 all ranks 
Interpreters. Nil. . 2 
The difference in the Army Service Corps detail attached to the 
Divisional Staff for supply and transport duties is due to the necessity 
for providing for :— 
(a) Increased allowance of personal baggage on the Service 
Abroad Scale. 
(b) Carriage of tents. 
(c) Additional transport for supplies. 
(d) Transport for additional Army Service Corps details. 
Making in all 4 wagons and 1 cart on the Service Abroad Scale, as 
against 2 wagons on the Home Service Scale, and an increase in per- 
