ORGANISATION OF A GARRISON COMPANY. 
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On ordinary occasions, i.e., when the company is not going through 
its annual course only two infantry companies could probably be found. 
A and B Divisions would then furnish one, C and D the other. 
I have as yet said nothing about the Captains; what with the Staff 
College Long Course, other courses of all descriptions, acting staff 
appointments, etc., I do not think more than one can ever be counted 
on. I should make him second in command as in the mounted 
branches, on parade he would perform the duties of Adjutant, in 
manning a fort those of Sub-Commander. 
Of course, if there are two they would perform the duties laid down 
in R.O. 76 of 1891. 
(2.) As regards manning a fort the matter is far more complicated. 
In one station a company may be told off to a casemated fort armed 
with 47-ton B.L. or 12*5" R.M.L. guns, and equipped with machinery 
of the newest pattern, in another to an open battery armed with 
nothing heavier than 6" guns. 
The organisation, I am endeavouring to describe, would as far as 
the divisions go, I think, be adaptable to either, but not so, of course, 
with regard to sub-divisions as with lighter guns a greater number 
could naturally be manned. 
I propose in these notes to apply it to one case only, viz., that of a 
fort or battery armed with the heaviest type of guns in general use 
for land service, viz., 47-ton B.L. guns and 12*5", or 10" R.ML. guns. 
I think it is conceded that two guns of this description, especially 
if mounted in a casemated fort like Hurst Castle and the Spit Forts, 
or in an open battery with huge traverses between them, like Cliff End 
Battery near the Needles, are all that one officer can efficiently com¬ 
mand. 
One division of the company would, therefore, on entering such a 
fort or battery become a group, each sub-division working one gun. 
The Divisional Officer becomes the Group Officer, the No. 1 of each 
sub-division the Gun-Captain. 
We will now consider the details approximately necessary for man¬ 
ning eight of these guns, they are as follows :— 
Fort Details. Fort details 
for 8 heavy 
Fort Commander, 1 Major. s uns - 
Sub-Commanders, 1 or 2 Captains. 
Fort Commander’s Staff, 1 N.-C.O., 2 gunners, 2 trumpeters. 
Sub-Commander’s Staff, 1 gunner, 1 trumpeter. 
Lange Transmitters (if using D.L.F.) 2 N.-C.O.’s, 2 gunners. 
Magazine and Shell Store Nos., 2 N.-C.O.’s, 12 gunners. 
Ammunition Supply Nos., at lifts or otherwise, 1 N.-C.O. and 16 gunners. 
Operators at tubes and telephones, 9 gunners. 
Signallers, 2 N.-C.O.’s and 4 gunners. (These would not all be required 
but 6 signallers is laid down for a company). 
Total Fort Details —1 Major, 1 or 2 Captains, 8 N.-C. officers, 46 gunners 
and 3 trumpeters. 
