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6th battn.—4 neadmen and 108 convicts—16 per company for carriage 
of ammunition, 8 for cooking pots and 8 for pioneer tools. 
7th and 9th battn.—as for 6th. 
Cavalry— 1 headman, 24 convicts—4 for cooking pots and 20 grass- 
[cutters. 
Artillery 2 3 44, Le gy i Pel Wi nO Laeee 
Engineers 2 5 54 a Shey 7 a 34 reserve 
equipment and 14 telegraph section. 
Topographical Service— 4 convicts—occupation not stated. 
Military Administration Staff 4 _,, carriage of archives. 
oy 7 Regtl. 10 _,, 2 per unit for carriage of 
archives. 
Medical Service.— 
Field Hospital— 2 headmen, 48 convicts. 
6 Ambulances—18 ie Clee = sl 
For each ambulance (composed of one medicine and one surgical 
chest, 15 dhoolies—tandoe—and two improvised field 
stretchers), four for carriage of medicine chest, four for 
surgical chest and four for each dhoolie or stretcher. 
General Train.— 
Twenty-seven headmen and 742 convicts—for care of draught 
and pack-horses, carriage of provisions, transport of matériel 
and carts, sweeping and clearance of ground and collection of 
sick and wounded, etc. T’o the above add 55 2-horse carts, 
with 120 draught and 160 pack-horses, 
The train was, generally speaking, divided into regimental and 
general transport, the latter working along the trunk lines and 
keeping depéts supplied. 
The historian of the war (W. Cool) hopes that in future there will 
be an organised service in time of peace. 
It will be seen from the above distribution of the transport that 
there is no provision made for the carrying of the mens’ kits. Hach 
man, whether European or native, has to carry his own kit, including 
a chopping knife (“ kapmes”), a very useful article in bivouac or 
where undergrowth is thick. The N.-C.O. of each section (one man 
in nine) carries a sawing knife (“zagmes ”) in lieu. 
For detail as to dress, weights carried, etc., stores comprising the 
engineer reserve equipment and other details, see ‘‘ Hand-book, Dutch 
Army,” 1896. All reserve stores, etc., are made up in loads of 44]b. 
for coolie transport.—Hand-book, p. 106. 
Press correspondents were not allowed to accompany the force and 
the officers were specially requested not to write on service subjects to 
their relations and friends. 
The 18th battalion of infantry was prepared for embarkation at 
Soerabaja as a reserve and, to bring it up to strength, all available 
men at Batavia, who were fit to take the field, were sent to Soerabaja. 
In the early morning of the 5th of July the whole of the 
expeditionary force was united in the roadstead of Ampenan. 
The force consisted of (see table, p. 570).- 
