200 
AMMUNITION COLUMNS. 
The necessary details of a pack ammunition column for such a force 
in war is given in the appendix attached. 
The mules and their drivers would usually be obtained in or near the 
theatre of operations. 
Under certain circumstances it might be advisable to replace the 
mule by camel or carrier transport. The modifications could easily be 
arrived at by remembering that a unit load is that for a carrier, viz. forty- 
four pounds, and that the load (exclusive of saddlery) carried by one 
transport mule is equal to four carrier's loads and by a camel is equal 
to seven carrier's loads. 
The peace portion of the column would consist of the depot 
increment attached to the service Mountain Battery at home and be 
constituted a separate unit. In war it would be completed in men 
from the reserve. 
APPENDIX. 
Detail of Establishment Required by an Ammunition Column 
for a Brigade of all Arms (for Mountain or Irregular Warfare). 
Personnel. 
Total Personnel. 
Animals. 
Total 
Animals. 
Military. 
Civilian 
or Native 
Cobs, Riding. 
Mules, Pack. 
Officers. 
W arrant 
Officers. 
S. Sergts 
and Sergts 
Artificers. 
Rank a a 
File. 
Trumpet¬ 
ers. 
Total. 
Conductors 
Muleteers 
Total. 
Captain. 
1 . 
7 4 
> A 
1 
1 
Subalterns. 
3 . 
5 4 
j 4 
3 
3 
Sergeant-Major. 
1 . 
l 
l 
1 
1 
Battery Sergt.-Major. 
. 1 . 
1 
1 
BatteryQ.-M.-Sergeant 
. 1 . 
£ 6 
£ 6 
1 
1 
Sergeants.. 
. 4 . 
1 
3 
4 
4 
Sergeant-Farrier. ... 
. 1 . 
) 
1 
1 
Shoeing Smiths. 
. 3 . 
c 
l Q 
1 
1 
Collar Makers. 
. 3 . 
X 
c 
Wheelers. 
. 2 . 
) 
Corporals . 
. 4 ... 
Bombardiers. 
. 4 ... 
£■47 
>47 
Gunners.* . 
. 39 ... 
3 
) 
Trumpeters. 
. 2 
2 
2 
"a 
"a 
Conductors. 
3 
3 
3 
Muleteers. 
... 78 
78 
78 
191 
191 
Spare. . 
-. | 
i 
18 
19 
Total. | 
4 1 6 9 47 2 . 
69 | 
3 78 
81 
150 
16 
209 
225 
* Calculated on the basis of one to every six laden mules, four servants and three spare. They 
are mainly required to place casu es in the b ttery. 
