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Hach Battery command must consist of Royal Artillery only, or of 
Militia or Volunteer Artillery only (according to the period of mobili- 
sation) each corps being under its own officers. Fire commands should 
be arranged in the same manner, if possible. 
(3.) The apportionment of these commands should be on the prin- 
ciple already advocated of allotting the most important to the R.A. 
(4.) In allotting the details required for any command allowance 
should be made for two reliefs at least. 
(5.) Fire Commanders and Officers holding higher posts should be 
specially selected, and appointed by name, being commissioned as such 
if necessary. 
(6.) All specialists required for range-finding, hydraulic mountings, 
&c., must be found by the R.A., and will be in addition to the battery 
details. These must be provided for the Auxiliary Artillery as well, — 
and only to this extent is a mixture of corps permissible. Some of 
these provisions are applicable only to the home fortresses, or with 
sheht modifications to those abroad which may be manned by mixed 
garrisons, but the principles on which they are based are of universal 
application. 
A distribution of the Artillery Garrisons made on these lines would 
much simplify the question of training for it would provide :— 
(1.) That Battery commands should be kept separate, thus allowing 
the men of each corps to be trained and worked under their own 
officers. 
(2.) That each Battery command was told off to a specific portion 
of the armament, thus admitting of the duties of the different units 
being more clearly defined and separated. 
(3.) In our home fortresses that generally speaking, the dividing 
line of duties between the Royal Artillery and the Auxiliary Artillery 
can be more clearly marked. 
This is important as it affects the question of the training of the 
different corps. 
The actual distribution of duties between the R.A. and the rest 
of the Artillery Garrison in home fortresses can only be settled locally, 
with due consideration to the requirements of each Fortress. But 
bearmg in mind that the most important portions of the defence 
must be given to the R.A. Companies, and also that these latter are 
liable to foreign service and with it varying duties in different localities, 
ib should be the endeavour when distributing them at home to appor- 
tion them as faras possible to those means of defence which will be of 
most value under all circumstances. The distribution at home then 
should generally speaking be as follows :— 
The Royal Artillery to— 
_(1.) The quick-firing guns and other ordnance intended to repel 
torpedo boat attacks. 
(2.) ‘The movable armament or guns for general defence, which will 
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distribution. 
The actual 
distribution. 
