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AMMUNITION COLUMNS. 
Summary op Pack Transport por an Ammunition Column por a 
Brigade op all Arms. 
Nature of load. 
Number of 
mules. 
36 boxes artillery ammunition 
32 n machine gun ammunition 
4 n carbine ammunition 
260 n rifle ammunition 
8 it pistol ammunition 
1 artillery carriage Mountain spare (without axle and 
wheels) 
1 Mountain forge 
1 pair charcoal bags 
1 » veterinary boxes ... 
1 n office boxes 
1 H Quarter-Master-Sergeants store boxes 
1 ,, n ii valise 
3 it artificers boxes 
Officers’baggage and mess ... 
Kits of 65 N.C.O.’s and men f 
Cooking utensils and rations 
Water 
Entrenching tools 
Total 
18 
61 
12 § 
209 
Number of 
muleteers 
6 
42 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
3 
2 
2 
9 including 6 
spare. 
78 
* The calculation of muleteers is made out on the basis of one to every three mules, except for 
the artillery ammunition, which is carried in artillery pack boxes on ordnance saddles, is heavy 
and requires ordnance mules for its transport, so one muleteer to every two mules is allowed, as 
also for the two artillery carriages ami relief mules. 
f Kits of muleteers and mules stable gear are carried distributed as convenient on the top of 
saddle of mules carrying S.A.A. boxes. 
J Spare saddled. 
§ Spare unsaddled. 
The driver establishment of the Mountain Battery in Natal should, in my opinion, be similar to 
that of the batteries in India, a move economical and efficient arrangement than “Cape Boys.” 
No. 16 Co., S.D.B.A., on transfer in the autumn to Egypt, sh< uld become a permanent Mountain 
Battery, with an armament similar to that of the Egyptian Mountain Batteries, and an Egyptian 
driver establishment. It would then be available for service in“Abyssinia or elsewhere if required. 
