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Brigade-Division Drill. 
Skeleton drill is not applicable to a brigade-division on the parade ground, but 
is an extremely useful form of exercise on manouvring ground, and may be 
directed to the same objects and applied in the same manner as in the case of a 
single battery. 
Parade ground exercises with horsed guns of a brigade-division should be de- 
voted to obtaining uniformity of pace, practice in following the brigade-division 
commander in changes of direction, and to the formations of columns and lines as 
laid down in the drill-book. Advances into action on a marked position should 
also be practised, especial attention being paid to dressing and intervals in action. 
Brigade-division exercises on manoeuvring ground are, as in the case of a single 
battery, to be principally devoted to movements into action from the line of march; 
and the same method of instruction and remedying faults should be adopted. 
All exercises of batteries and brigade-divisions lose much of their value if the 
batteries are not practised at the same time in fire action, which is intimately con- 
nected with the supply and replenishment of ammunition, replacement of 
casualties, &c. 
By lending horses to each other the batteries of a brigade-division may also be 
practised in working at full war strength, which is very important in view of the 
great difference between the peace and war establishment of a battery. 
Conduct of Artillery Exercises in connection with Action. 
The instructor formulates the general and special ideas, and himself takes the 
post of the next highest commander, such as commander of an advanced-guard, a 
division, or detached force. 
An imaginary enemy as well as imaginary troops on the side of the batteries 
should always be indicated by the instructor, who gives directions on the following 
points :— 
1.—The movements (imaginary) of the troops on both sides. 
2.—Casualties among commanders, as well as among men and horses of the 
batteries. 
3.—Damage (imaginary) to matériel in the batteries. 
4.—The effect of the fire on the enemy. 
Replenishinent of Ammunition. 
This is of the highest importance and must be most carefully practised in all 
its details. 
In this connection it is highly desirable that a sufficient supply of drill projec- 
tiles to partially replace the service ammunition of at least one battery ina 
brigade-division should be kept up, to the extent of one box each of drill common 
shell and shrapnel per limber, and full firs¢-line wagons. 
It is very important that the second-line wagons should reach the fighting 
position before the whole of the first-line ammunition is expended. The battery 
commander has his hands too full to be able to keep note of the expenditure of 
ammunition, and the same is true of the section commanders, This duty should 
therefore be imposed on a superior N.-C. officer (quartermaster sergeant),! who 
should be in charge of the first-line wagons. His whole attention, after the 
battery is in action, should be devoted to noting the expenditure of ammunition, 
and at the proper moment he should inform the battery commander that the time 
has come to call wp the second-line wagons. 
The second-line wagons await in the nearest position, under cover, the moment 
when the first-line of wagons leave the fighting line. This happens as soon as the 
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