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AMMUNITION COLUMNS AND PARKS, CONSIDERED WITH 
REFERENCE TO THE REPLACEMENT OF AMMUNITION, 
HORSES AND MEN DURING AND AFTER AN ACTION. 
BY 
MAJOR H. 8S. MAY, R.A. 
‘THEY ALSO SERVE WHO ONLY STAND AND WAIT.” 
COMMENDED ESSAY, 1896. 
SECTION I. 
INTRODUCTORY. 
Ir is somewhat to be regretted that the above subject should have been 
chosen at this time for the Prize Hssay, because it is believed that the 
organization of our Ammunition Columns is at the present moment 
undergoing alteration in accordance with the recommendations of a 
committee which has been considering the subject of ammunition sup- 
ply during last summer. The recommendations of this committee 
were not, at the time of writing this essay, public property, and the 
writer, it is presumed in common with many others who may have 
taken up their pens, although private enquiry gave him some hints, 
was obliged to follow the tables given in the latest edition of field army 
establishment, the infantry and artillery hand-books for field service, 
and the authorized drill-books. It may possibly be therefore that before 
a few months are past, some of the data given may be inaccurate, and 
since the essay was written some of the changes foreshadowed by the 
introduction of the 15-pr. and H.A. gun have been indicated and tables 
modified accordingly. The principles, however, will remain the same, 
and it is not to be supposed that any vast alterations, such as would 
render his conclusions valueless, are likely to appear. He has been 
obliged to follow the existing state of things, and to take what is to 
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