BY BRIGADIER-GENERAL TREVOR TERNAN, C.M.G., D.S.O.,

COMMANDING 123^rd (TYNESIDE SCOTTISH) BRIGADE.

HEADQUARTERS, NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE,

21^st FEBRUARY, 1915.

132 – District Court-Martial –

            The details of Officers as mentioned below will assemble at the Orderly Room, 22^nd Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers (3^rd Tyneside Scottish) Newburn, on the 23^rd February, 1915, at 10-15 a.m., for the purpose of trying by District Court-Martial the accused person named in the margin:-

PRESIDENT

Major P.B. Norris, 22^nd Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers (3^rd Tyneside Scottish).

MEMBERS

Captain from 21^st Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers (2^nd Tyneside Scottish).

Captain from 23^rd Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers (4^th Tyneside Scottish).

The accused will be warned and all witnesses duly required to attend.

The proceedings will be forwarded to the G.O.C., 123^rd (Tyneside Scottish) Brigade, 18, Eskdale Terrace, Newcastle-on-Tyne.

Officers Commanding Units will each detail three Officers to attend for instructional purposes.

In the margin.  No. 1450 Pte. John Butler Milburn, 22^nd Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers (3^rd Tyneside Scottish).

133 – Bands –

            Musical Instruments on the scale laid down for a battalion in Equipment Regulations, Part 2, Section 1, table 18, will be allowed for service battalions of the New Armies.  Indents should be submitted forthwith, and issues will be made as instruments become available.

            It must, however, be clearly understood that no establishment of sergeant drummers, buglers, or drummers will be allowed, and that men employed as such must not be taken away from their training as soldiers to be trained as musicians.

            Soldiers employed as buglers and drummers should as far as possible be selected from men who have had previous experience of the instruments they are to use, and any further training as musicians undergone by these men must be additional to the training as soldiers given to them in common with all other fighting men of their battalions.

Authority, 114/Infantry/1412 (A.G.1).

C.R.N.C. 45053/1/14.

134 – Extracts from Northern Command Orders –

“LONDON GAZETTE” –

The following extracts from the “London Gazette,” dated Tuesday, 16^th February, 1915, is published for information:-

The Northumberland Fusiliers –

21^st (Service) Battalion (2^nd Tyneside Scottish), Francis Ball Lewis to be temporary Major.  Dated 25^th January, 1915.

ESCORTS TO SOLDIERS SENTENCED TO DETENTION –

It has been brought to the notice of the Army Council that instances have occurred of soldiers sentenced to detention having been marched, handcuffed, under escorts, through public thoroughfares from railway stations to detention barracks.

The enquiries instituted by the Council indicate that this procedure has been due to a misunderstanding on the part of various Commanding Officers in reading the Regulations on the subject.  The attention of all concerned is directed to the instructions contained in paragraphs 640 and 641 of the King’s Regulations, which must be strictly complied with in future.

Authority, War Office letter No. 105/Miscellaneous/349 (A.G.3), dated 18^th February, 1915.

C.R. No. 44585.  Northern Command Order No.243.

INFANTRY BATTALIONS – HEADQUARTERS AND MACHINE GUN SECTION – PAY AND MESS BOOK –

            Attention has been drawn to a case in which it was proposed that a separate Pay and Mess Book should be kept for soldiers serving with the Headquarters and Machine Gun Section of an Infantry Battalion.  Soldiers so serving should continue to be attached for pay purposes to one of the companies of the battalion, and their names shown in the Pay and Mess Book of that company.

Authority, War Office letter No. 30/Infantry/2110 (Accounts I.B.), dated 11^th February, 1915.

C.R. No. 43622.  Northern Command Order No.244.

T.L.B. SOUTRY, Captain,

Brigade-Major, 123^rd (Tyneside Scottish) Brigade.