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The Divisional Ammunition Columns, taking into account artillery 
ammunition only, each consist of 6 ammunition wagons with limbers, 
6 ammunition and store wagons, and 1 spare carriage, and the ammu¬ 
nition carried by them is meant for the guns of the division to which 
the column belongs. 
The Corps Troops Ammunition Column consists of 10 ammunition 
wagons with limbers, 10 ammunition and store wagons, and 4 spare 
carriages, and is meant for the supply of the batteries of the Corps 
Artillery. This column, therefore, stands in the same relation to the 
Corps Artillery as the Divisional Columns do to the Divisional Artil¬ 
lery, that is, they contain the first and nearest means of replenishment 
of the limbers and wagons of the batteries. 
Although certain columns belong to certain divisions it is in no 
wise intended that any column should refuse to supply ammunition to 
any batteries requiring it. 
The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Sections of the Ammunition Park each con¬ 
sist of 9, and the 4th Section of 15 ammunition and store wagons. 
A Cavalry Divisional Ammunition Column consist of 12 ammunition 
wagons with limbers and 1 spare carriage carrying 75 rounds a gun for 
each of the two batteries of the Division. The 5th Section of the 
Ammunition Park consist of 6 ammunition and store wagons conveying 
72 rounds per gun for each of the above batteries. 
The ammunition actually carried for each gun of an Army Corps is 
as follows :— 
Common 
shell. 
Shrapnel 
shell. 
Case 
shot. 
Gun-limber . 
Wagon-limber . 
Wagon-body. 
8 
8 
4 
24 
24 
32 
4 
4* 
t 
Total 
number 
of rounds 
per gun. 
Total with Battery 
20 
80 
8 
108 
With Infantry Divisional Ammunition Column for 
Divisional Artillery, or with Corps Troops Am¬ 
munition Column for Corps Artillery . 
74 
With the Ammunition Park . 
. 
72 
Grand Total 
. 
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* In preparing for action two of these case shot are taken out of the wagon and are placed 
upon the gun. 
f In the off box of the wagon-body there are in addition two star shell, but as these are not 
man-killing projectiles they have been omitted from the calculation. 
The common, shrapnel, and case carried in the reserves are in the 
same proportion as those carried with the battery; viz., one common 
to four shrapnel. 
The above figures are to all intents and purposes correct, omitting 
