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addition, a reserve of 100 rounds per gun on Ordnance Store charge. 
Each Battery consists of 4 guns and 2 wagons; and in the case of 
4-0-pr. batteries 3 wagons. 1 
The Batteries are horsed under corps arrangements, and the provi¬ 
sional contracts for the supply of horses require careful revision annually 
in conjunction with the annual return of horses registered for army 
purposes by the Inspector General of Remounts, to ensure that no 
horses are counted upon for the Position Batteries which have been 
registered by their owners as available for other purposes. The 
Inspector General of Remounts furnishes annually, to General Officers 
Commanding Districts, that portion of the return which affects each 
district, thus enabling local Defence Committees to eliminate any 
horses required for the Field Army from their calculations in providing 
local transport. 
Single Guns of Position. 
There are, in addition^ a considerable number of 40-pr. R.B.L. guns 
on Volunteer charge, used for drill and practice purposes, which are 
utilised in local Defence Schemes; these guns are used as single guns 
of position or movable armament; their stations on mobilisation are 
given in the Artillery Mobilisation Tables in the local Defence Schemes; 
and the Volunteers are required to undertake their transport to the 
places appointed, together with the ammunition on corps charge, the 
provision of the necessary gun detachments, and the service of the 
guns generally. The ammunition consists of 50 rounds per gun (filled) 
on corps charge, and 100 rounds per gun (filled) on Ordnance Store 
charge. The reserve ammunition on Ordnance Store charge being held 
in the locality where the guns are to be employed, it may happen that 
the ammunition on corps charge, as well as that on Ordnance Store 
charge, can be most conveniently kept by the Royal Artillery on behalf 
of the corps and Ordnance Store Department respectively. 
It will be seen that in the case of the Position Batteries and the 
single guns of position several points have to be considered in the 
corps or company standing orders for mobilisation which do not occur 
in connection with the Garrison Companies, or companies which have 
no movable armament on charge which is utilised in the local Defence 
Scheme, such as :—• 
(a) Turn-over, care, packing, drawing and transport of ammuni¬ 
tion. 
( b ) Horsing vehicles, and transport of guns and carriages by road 
or rail. 
(c) Organisation of the administrative machinery for mobilising 
the batteries or guns, and bringing them to the place of 
concentration or garrison, &c., to which they are allotted. 
Allotment. 
The allotment of the Volunteer Artillery is given in Appendix L of 
the Regulations for Mobilisation (Home Defence). 
Command on Mobilisation. 
Units which leave their district on mobilisation, come under the 
1 H.GK, W.O. letter | V. J Artillery General No. 3394 | dated 4.8.92. 
