56 page book, supplied as a PDF document on CD-ROM.
Issued with Army Orders dated 1st October, 1914.
FIELD SERVICE MANUAL,
1914.
INFANTRY BATTALION.
(EXPEDITIONARY FORCE.)
NOTE.- Field Service Manuals are not the authority for the supply of war outfit of units. The details, laid down in latest Mobilization Store Tables, Equipment Regulations, Clothing Regulations, do., will be followed.
CONTENTS. SECTION 1. GENERAL NOTES
SECTION 2. WAR ESTABLISHMENT AND TRANSPORT
SECTION 3. — FIELD KITS —
A. Mounted officers
B. Dismounted officers
C. Warrant officers, non-commissioned officers and men (dismounted)
D. Additional articles carried by certain dis-mounted men
E. Cyclist
F. Mounted men
G. Articles left at the base for each man
SECTION 4. — PACK TRANSPORT AND SPARE ANIMALS —
A. Pack animal for S.A. ammunition
B. Spare horses
SECTION5. — CART AND WAGON EQUIPMENT —
A. S.A.A. cart
B. Maltese cart
C. Water cart
D. G.S. limbered wagon
E. G.S. wagon
F. Travelling kitchen
SECTION 6. — CART AND WAGON LOADS —
A. S.A.A. cart
B. Maltese cart
C. Water cart
D. G.S. limbered wagons for tools No. 1
- G.S. limbered wagons for tools No. 2
E. Cooks' wagon
F. Travelling kitchen
- G. G.S. limbered wagon for machine gun section
H. No. 1. Baggage and stores
- G.S. wagons No. 1 Baggage & Stores
- G.S. wagons No. 2 Baggage & Stores
- G.S. wagons No. 3 Supplies
- G.S. wagons No. 4 Supplies
SECTION 7. — DATA ON WHICH THE TRANSPORT OF A BATTALION IS CALCULATED (a) —
A. Ammunition
B. Tools
C. Rations and fuel
D. Forage
E. Supplies required for one day
F. Signalling equipment
G. Spare components of vehicles
(a) See also Section 3.