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ARTILLERY IN COAST DEFENCE. 
area of the section in successive zones, and when an object is found 
the Section Commander orders a Fort Commander to direct his light 
on that object and engage it; as soon as the fighting light is thrown 
on to it, the search light is taken off and continues to search the rest 
of the area. When a vessel is about to pass out of the fire area of a 
fort, the next Fort Commander is ordered to light up and engage it, 
and so on. Fighting lights have stops or shades so arranged that 
they cannot accidentally light up friendly works. They are usually 
placed outside and at some distance from the fort, but are in direct 
communication by telephone or telegraph with the Fort Commander’s 
station. The Section Commander controls his search light direct 
through his Electric Light Officer, and the fighting lights, when he 
requires them for searching, through the Fort Commanders. 
Ammunition Officers are in command of the details of men required 
for the supply of ammunition to the gun floor from the magazines. 
It is their duty to superintend the whole of the operations on the 
magazine floor, to see that every man knows his post and his duty, and 
that the magazine regulations are strictly obeyed ; they must keep 
exact account of the ammunition expended and render a report of it 
and of the amount remaining in expense stores and magazines at the 
end of the action, or when required, to the Fort Commander. They 
must see that no delay occurs in supplying the guns, and must give 
timely notice to the Fort Commander when the expense stores, &c., 
are becoming exhausted. All unexpended ammunition should at once 
be returned to the expense stores on completion of the action. In 
very large works one or more officers or N.-C. officers would be 
detailed to help the Ammunition Officer; while in small works a N.-C. 
officer might perform his duties. 
The provision of an economical but efficient manning detail for each 
fort is the next necessity. This detail is made out on Army Form A 
2008, and it is divided under five separate headings. 
The first division is the “Fort Commander’s staff.” This consists of 
the officers or N.-C. officers required to assist the Fort Commander at 
his fighting* station with his observing instruments and charts, of 
position-finder observers, telegraphists, and telephonists, who would 
be trained men of the district establishment, of depression range¬ 
finder detachments, and of orderlies, trumpeters, and signallers as 
required. Sub-Commanders for fire control, with their staffs, and 
Sub-Commanders for discipline, would also be included under this 
heading. 
The “ permanent fort staff” is the next heading. This consists of the 
master-gunner and his assistants who are in charge of the equipment 
of the fort, of the district gunners and artificers ; the master-gunner 
would be on the gun floor and the district gunners in the artillery 
general store, and other stores and side-arm sheds, and in charge of 
the lamps for lighting magazines and passages; these men belong to 
the district establishment or are specially detailed for the duty from 
R.A. Companies. 
“ Detached armament and other details ” include the officers and men 
required for groups of movable armament stationed outside the fort, 
and electric light details, 
