ARTILLERY MOBILISATION. 
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Ammunition and Stores. 
The whole of the ammunition for guns mounted in works of defence 
(viz., 100 rounds per gun at home, and 200 abroad, except 13*5" B.L., 
of which only 100 rounds are maintained) is on charge of the Royal 
Artillery, and stored in the works to which it belongs, with some few 
exceptions. 
Tubes and fuzes are kept equally divided between the Royal Artillery 
and Ordnance Store Department, except at Gibraltar, where the whole 
of them are on Royal Artillery charge. 1 
Duplicate lists of these tubes and fuzes should be kept up in each 
Royal Artillery District and Senior Ordnance Store Officer's office, and 
compared periodically. These lists should also form appendices to the 
Royal Artillery and Ordnance Store Department sections of the Defence 
Scheme of the District. 
The movable armament of fortresses also has 100 rounds per gun on 
Royal Artillery charge. 2 
Stege Companies. 
The Siege companies at Dover, Gosport, and Devonport are allotted 
for local defence for Home Service : these companies form the nucleus 
of a Siege Train, and hold on their charge— 
One 8" lt.M.L. howitzer. 
„ 6 - 6 " „ 
,, 40-pr. 
„ 25-pr. 
together with the necessary stores and vehicles, as laid down in the 
Equipment Regulations, and are distributed between the different 
divisions of the Siege Train (for Service Abroad) according to the nature 
of the ordnance. 3 
The allotment of the companies to form Siege Train Divisions is not 
published; it would naturally vary from year to year as the companies 
undergo the course at Lydd. 
Ammunition for Siege Companies. 
The ammunition for the ordnance on charge of Siege companies con¬ 
sists of— 
100 rounds per piece on company charge (filled). 
100 „ „ „ Ordnance Store charge (empty). 
Personnel. 
The allotment of the personnel of Siege companies for Home Defence 
is usually made in the Artillery Mobilisation Tables of the local 
Defence Scheme, so as to give such companies charge of movable 
armament and armament on land fronts generally. 
1 Equipment Regulations. Part IL, Section XII., para. 78. 
2 150 rounds per gun are to be at once demanded from Woolwich on mobilisation, as a reserve, 
in addition to the 100 rounds already on Royal Artillery charge. 
For 3-prs. and 6-prs. quick-firing guns, 500 rounds are maintained on R.A. charge. 
3 Horse Guards’ W.O. letter 57 j Dover | 2631, dated 5.7.93, 
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