. Kitchener's army and the territorial forces, the full story of a great achievement ;. MARCH. ACTION 1 KONT I come to the Royal Field Artillery for our ex-amination of the training and substance of thenew arm. The . List gives us particularsof some 130 batteries of Field .\rtillery, and tothese musf bfe added the large number of reservebatteries of Royal Horse Artillery. The Kitchener recruits introductif)n to thisbranch of the .Army depended cither upon hisexpressed inclination for service with the gunnersor upon his phvsical qualifications. Since thehorses which draw the guns have quit
. Kitchener's army and the territorial forces, the full story of a great achievement ;. MARCH. ACTION 1 KONT I come to the Royal Field Artillery for our ex-amination of the training and substance of thenew arm. The . List gives us particularsof some 130 batteries of Field .\rtillery, and tothese musf bfe added the large number of reservebatteries of Royal Horse Artillery. The Kitchener recruits introductif)n to thisbranch of the .Army depended cither upon hisexpressed inclination for service with the gunnersor upon his phvsical qualifications. Since thehorses which draw the guns have quite enoughwork to do to get these weapons from place toplace, it is obviously desirable that the men whoride three of the six horses constituting a gunteam should be as light as possible. Therefore,for the drivers of the new artillery, short and Fight lOO Kitchener s A riny. THE PREPARATOKV STAGES OK THE W OKK OF THE GU -1 men were chosen. For the gunners, aheight standard, superior to what is re-quired for the infantry, is laid down, ahigher standard of physique being neces-sary in men who have to lift weights, andmust be necessarily called upon to performheavier manual labour than their brethrenof the infantry. A gun is drawn by six horses, the near-side horses being ridden, and the gun itselfconsists of the limber, the caissons, contain-ing the shells, etc., and the gun is only the roughest description, butit will probably serve the non-technicalreader. In conversation with members of the finebody of men who joined the Artillery, I wasimpressed by the way thev had followed theevents of the war, and especially the gallantwork of the Royal Artillery. Certainlythere was much to be learnt from the war which was being waged concurrentlywith their training, there were splendidexamples to be faithfully followed. TheRoyal Horse and the Royal Field
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