Tactics, 
Park, 
322 SILVER MEDAL PRIZE ESSAY, 1896. 
probably one wagon per unit per battery dependent on it. An increase 
inthe weight of shell must mean a decrease in rounds carried with the 
first line, unless we can lessen the weight of our carriages. 
GENERAL REMARKS AFFECTING Suppty AND Movements or CoLtumNn AND 
Park. 
It now only remains to detail the general considerations bearing on 
the supply of the fighting line. 
As regards the tactics generally.— 
Columns should march in rear of the combatant troops, in front of 
the baggage when an engagement is imminent. 
When two or more divisions march by one road the corps com- 
mander must decide the position of his Columns. 
The commander of a Column’s chief idea must be to get to the front, 
when an action is pending and he must push up atallcosts. The same 
applies in a less degree to the Park. 
The Artillery Ammunition portion of a Column may, if a long 
artillery duel is anticipated and the roads are congested, push forward 
by itself, usually the small-arm ammunition carts and the artillery 
wagons should move straight off to the troops, the rest of the Column 
forming up within a mile of the first artillery position. 
The commander of an Ammunition Column must at once inform the 
officer commanding divison and officer commanding divisional or corps 
artillery of his arrival and whereabouts. On halting near the front, a 
pole with distinctive coloured flag must be hoisted and at night a 
coloured lantern. 
The officer commanding artillery also must keep a look-out to inform 
the officer commanding Columns of the artillery whereabouts. 
The Park will move intact when possible and if it can get up to the 
front during an action will park off the roads some three miles in rear 
and inform officer commanding army corps. 
All Park Sections and Columns supply ammunition to any unit what- 
ever in demand during an action. : 
Neither Park nor Column must have any regard to their own 
efficiency when supplying material or personnel, but must give all they 
can. 
The routine for supplying must be of the simplest, a counterfoil de- 
livery book being sufficient, a receipt being taken for everything on 
the counterfoil. 
Columns may issue without written demand in action, but must take 
a receipt. 
Empty small-arm-ammunition carts returning from the front should be 
collected in batches of five or six and be sent under a non-commissioned 
officer. 
The officer commanding Park, if he judges fit, may send part of his 
wagons up to join the Columns when action is severe, or an advance in 
pursuit is anticipated. 
As portions of Columns and Parks will continually have to find their 
way about country, each officer in a unit should be supplied with maps. 
It is important that the non-commissioned officers in a Column should 
