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A horse battery has 6 guns and 12 wagons and is commanded by a 
Colonel or Lieut.-Colonel with 1 Captain and 3 Subalterns under him. 
A Brigade of Field Artillery (48 guns) is attached to each division. 
There is no Corps Artillery, 
Total batteries in an Army Corps 12 (8 guns each). 
Infantry in an Army Corps 31,000. There are therefore only 3* *1 
guns per 1000 rifles. 
In this country, also, the Field and Horse Artillery are organised 1 
separately. 
The Field Artillery has 2 units, the Corps Artillery Regiment, and 
the independent Cavalry Division. 
Each Corps Artillery Regiment is composed of a Regimental Staff 
and 2 Battery Divisions, each of which consists of 3 batteries. The 
1st Division numbered 1 to 3, the 2nd 4 to 6. 
An independent battery division consists of a small Divisional Staff 
and 3 field batteries numbered 1 to 3; these batteries are in all re¬ 
spects similar to those of the Corps Artillery Regiments. 
For administrative purposes the Corps Artillery Regiments and 
independent battery divisions of each Army Corps constitute an Artil¬ 
lery Brigade under the command of a Brigadier attached to the Head¬ 
quarter Staff of an Army Corps. 
Artillery Brigadiers are usually Major-Generals or Colonels ; and 
Commanders of Corps Artillery Regiments are Colonels. Battery 
Divisions are commanded by Lieut.-Colonels, batteries by Captains. 
Thus, each Infantry Division has an independent Battery Division (3 
batteries of 8 guns), while the Corps Artillery Regiment has 6 bat¬ 
teries of 8 guns. Total 12 batteries of 8 guns = 96 guns. 
A field battery consists of 8 guns and 8 wagons. 
Infantry in an Army Corps 28,000. Therefore 3‘5 guns per 1000 
rifles. The Horse Artillery is organised in Battery Divisions of two 
batteries. 
A horse battery has 6 guns and 6 wagons. 
In Italy the Horse and Field Artillery have a separate organisation. 2 
They have only one Regiment of Horse Artillery which consists of 6 
batteries (each of 6 guns and 6 wagons). In war this regiment is 
divided into 3 brigades, each of 2 batteries, told off for duty with the 
3 Cavalry Divisions. 
They have 24 regiments of Field Artillery divided into 12 divisional 
and 12 corps regiments. 
Each regiment consists of 2 brigades—each brigade of 4 batteries. 
The batteries of a regiment being numbered 1 to 8, each consists of 6 
guns and 6 wagons. 
A heavy brigade of 9 cm guns is attached to each division of infantry. 
The Corps Artillery consists of 2 mixed brigades of 2 batteries of 9 cm 
guns and 2 batteries of 7 cm guns. Total in Army Corps—16 batteries 
or 96 guns. There are 25,000 infantry in an Army Corps : 11 = 3-8 
guns per 1000 infantry. 
In this country there are 80 field batteries and 20 horse. 
1 Vide “ Handbook of Military Forces of Austria-Hungary.” Chapter III., p. 52, 
* Vide “ Handbook of the Italian Army.” 
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