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be able to read a map and in promoting men from batteries on mobili- 
zation this should be borne in mind. 
The foregoing would seem to be the most important points with 
regard to the supply during an action and movements relating thereto. 
Before closing, it may be worth noting that in India Columns for 
Artillery Ammunition are composed of three or four units, each 
according to the number of batteries dependant on the Columns. 
Hach unit consists of six artillery-ammunition wagons, the rough 
nature of the country in Afghanistan forbidding use of wagons, am- 
munition-and-store. One unit per Column has forge, store wagon I.P. 
and spare gun-carriage. 
Six of these units are maintained, manned and horsed, attached to 
batteries in the Punjab, four more are kept ready packed in Ferozepur, 
Allahabad, Mhow and Bombay arsenals, while four units would be 
furnished by the field batteries of the Hyderabad Contingent. 
This arrangement is very incomplete as compared with that in Hng- 
land, but is probably suited to the conditions of service beyond the 
frontier. 
It would be a very great advantage if one Ammunition Column could 
be maintained fully equipped in England and if officers and non-com- 
missioned officers could be continually attached for a month, or even a 
fortnight at a time, not only to render them acquainted with the work 
of a Column but with the whole system on which Columns and Parks 
are organized. ‘There would then be a large number of officers and 
non-commissioned officers to select from for Column duty on mobili- 
zation. 
The actual details of mobilizing would be very similar to those for a 
battery and do not seem to come within the scope of the present essay. 
PosrscRipr. 
In submitting this essay the writer would ask that the difficulty of 
obtaining the latest figures and tables, when serving abroad, may serve 
as an apology for any minor errors in his tables purporting to be the 
present establishments of Columns and Parks. 
Ammunition 
Columns in 
India, 
