ARTILLERY TRAINING.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 811, 7 May 1910, Page 5

ARTILLERY TRAINING.

NEXT SEASON'S CAMPS. In a oircular memorandum to officers commanding districts, garrison artillery divisions and companies,' field . batteries, and Royal artillery companies, Captain IG. S. .Richardson (Chiei Instructor of i Artillery) ..announces the arrangements for the. artillery ..training camps to bo held during tlitf season 1910-1911, as follow :— "Officers commanding field batteries and garrison artillery divisions will please forward, through their respective officers commanding districts, to headquarters, as soon as convenient, tbe proposed dates of training camps for 1910-1911 for batteries and companies in their command; to be also accompanied by an estimate of attendance and number of continuous days' training proposed during the camp. Where possible (field batteries excepted) camps should bo held as brigade camps, and.arrangements made for all companies in the district to. be in camp at the same time, in order.to permit.of tho whole of tho defences being majined, "and collective, training, combined'training,; battle practice, etc., heing carried out.

. "Morning and evening camps, as carried out last year, may be permitted for the 1910-11 season's training, but an effort should bo made to have as many continuous days' training as possible. Ration allowance will" be granted as heretofore,' but the personal allowance authorised for each day in camp will r not be granted excepting for each whole day in' camp during the continuous training period. In estimating tho attendance, only thoso N.C.O.'s and men who v can attend the drills in camp should be' reckoned. Where necessary arrangements should, if possible, be made with employers to grant their ; employees the necessary leave, thereby preventing a recurrence of the experience in some garrison artillery oompanies last year, when a large number of men had difficulty in getting the necessary leave to attend drills in the early mornings, and in soma oases the evenings, with the result that while thoso men actually slept in camp,- they did not carry out their drills, and the attendance record and efficiency of their company suffered in consequence. "An effort should be made Jot all artillery camps to terminate with at least four (days' continuous training, duringwhich time the field batteries should encamp on tho practice ground and garrison 'companies. carry out battle practice, etc. If necessary tho annual training may bo postponed until Easter, 1911, when the last four days of the camp should be arranged to coincide with the four Easter, holidays, terminating on Easter Momday." . ,