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ino* an average of one garrison battery of six officers and 11G non¬ 
commissioned officers and men to every three guns. This is the 
proportion laid down in Major Miller’s compilation of ‘Army 
Equipment Regulations,’ page 14, as suitable for smooth-bore siege 
o’uns, and may be accepted for rifled guns, the average strength of 
detachment for working guns, up to the 7-incli inclusive, being nine. 
Thus three reliefs are provided of ten men each, with a pro¬ 
portion of spare for servants, camp duties, and casualties. 
It is not necessary to define the personal equipment of the bat¬ 
teries thus attached to the Siege Train, as it is provided for in the 
regulations. 
•;Transporting Establishment .—The transport service of a Siege 
Train must almost in all cases depend on the means available from 
the general transport of the army, aided hy the carriage of the 
country, for taking the guns and ammunition to the front; but it 
is highly desirable that a certain proportion of drivers, horses, and 
artillery wagons* should be permanently attached to the train for 
forming a nucleus to which to attach the drivers and cattle obtained 
from other sources.f 
The following detail of men and horses allowed for the reserve 
ammunition of an army corps would form a suitable permanent 
establishment in the field for a Siege Train of from thirty to sixty 
pieces of ordnance :— 
OFFICERS AND MEN. 
HORSES. 
Riding :— 
Captain ... 1 
Lieutenants ... 2 
Quartermaster ... 1 
Assistant-Surgeon 1 
Veterinary Surgeon 1 
Non-Commiss. Offi¬ 
cers and Men :— 
Sergeant-Major... 1 
Quartermaster-Ser¬ 
geant . 1 
Sergeants. 6 
Corporals ... ... 6 
Drivers . 87 
Trumpeters ... 2 
Artificers :— 
Sergeant Farrier 1 
Shoeing Smiths... 6 
Collar makers ... 3 1 
Total, all ranks 119j 
Officers’ ... '.-..**7 
Staff-Sergeants’... 2 
Non-Commissioned 
Officers’ ... ... 9 
Farriers’ . 1 
Trumpeters’ ... 2 
Spare. 2 
23 
Draught. 160' 
Artificers’ Tools :— 
f Collar-makers’ sets 
Farriers’ . 
3 
4 
Total horses .. 
Saddlery Sets: 
Officers’ 
Universal ... 
Harness :— 
Double Sets— 
Lead. 
Wheel ... 
lgg [Material for Repair: 
'Collar-makers’, suffi- 
J cient for 3 months. 
5 | 
16 
35 
45 
** Two are the pri¬ 
vate property of 
the Veterinary 
Surgeon. 
For Wheelers’ tools 
and material, v. 
list of Siege Train 
stores. 
Siege Train for Artificers .—The proportion of wheelers allowed 
to a battery of field artillery, viz., one to three guns, would not be 
excessive for a Siege Train, taking into account the large number 
of carriages employed in transporting the stores and ammunition. 
* Proportion, two per gun. These wagons should be fitted to take ordinary farm 
harness if required, as in the case of the carriages for 40-pr. guns of position. 
f Colonel St. George, R.A., in reporting on the siege operations before Sebastopol, 
gives it as his opinion that from 60 to 200 horses should be permanently attached to 
the Siege Train, and Major-General Sir Richard Dacres strongly advocates the use of 
wagons and carts, specially fitted for carrying shot and shell, with frames fitted in them 
that can be altered according to the size required. 
Note. —In India selected animals (generally Government cattle) are invariably 
Drivers, horses 
wagons. 
Artificers for 
repairing har¬ 
ness and sad¬ 
dlery and for 
shoeing. 
Artificers for 
repair of car¬ 
riages. 
