Field service pocket book, 1914 / General Staff, War Office.

Date:
[1914]
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Credit: Field service pocket book, 1914 / General Staff, War Office. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    110/372 (page 78)
    Unit. Allotted to. I Means of signal communication available with unit. Normal duties of unit. A cable section A wireless section. Signal com- pany (lines of commu- nication). Head- quarters I.G.C. 2 detachments, each with 1 cable wagon, and ma- terial for laying down and work- ing a line of cable 10 miles long. Each line is equipped with 1 stationary office for the starting point and 1 mov- able office in the cable wagon. 2 additional sta- tionary offices are carried in the R.E. liml)ered wagons. 3 wireless (wagon) stations. Estal)lishment and equipment may have to be varied to suit local eoii- ditions. In- cludes personnel to form nucleus of a signal clear- ing bouse on a L. of C. For i)roviding the army signal system within the limits of command of the I.G.C. !). The intercommunication personnel, telephone equipment, and bicycles maintained in units other than Army Signal units are as follows ;— Unit Personnel. Bieycles. (c) Headquarters cavalry oLvisional artillery Headquarters divisional artillery Headquarters divisiomU eugincers . 7 rank and file («) 3 («) 2 1 Cavalry regiment Cavalry squadron with Division A squadron of Irish Horse .. Horse artillery brigade— Headquarters Battery Ammunition column Horse artillery battery* Ammunition column*.. Field artillery brigade— Headquarters Battery Ammunition column 1 Serjeant 1 U rank and flic (6) r 13 27 rank and file (7) I ; 3 rank and file (b) 4 1 9 (.9) , , 6 rank and file (/) 8 9 rank and file (c), (rf) .. 3 7 (h) 3 3 (.</) 3 9 (e) 3 3 (9) 1 12 (c), (d) .. 1 7 W 1 ..| a „ (9) 1 * For a Cavalry Brigade not allotted to a Cavalry Division.