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

COMMANDING 123^rd (TYNESIDE SCOTTISH) BRIGADE.

HEADQUARTERS, ALNWICK,

14^th MARCH, 1915.

172 – Equipment Supply of –

            It appears that in spite of a supply of equipment for units of this Brigade being available in the Committee Store, there is still a shortage in certain units.  Commanding Officers must keep themselves in touch with the Store Keeper with a view to drawing equipment immediately it becomes available.

It is most important that the equipping of the various Battalions should be completed at the earliest possible date.

173 – Extracts from Northern Command Orders –

EMERGENCY WORKS –

            With a view to reducing as much as possible the inconvenience to farmers and others, and compensation for disturbance and damage, trenches occupying portions of grass fields, not otherwise required for Military purposes, should, whenever practicable, be enclosed by temporary post and wire fences to enable the remainder of the field to be used for grazing purposes without risk of damage to stock.  In a similar manner, hedges or fences which have been removed should be replaced by temporary post and wire fence.

Commanders of Fortress and Coast areas will at once take the requisite action.

Expenditure will be charged against Vote X, Part I, Adapting Defences.

Northern Command Order No.357.

“LONDON GAZETTE” –

The following extracts from the “London Gazette” of Tuesday, the 9^th March, 1915, are published for information:

The Northumberland Fusiliers –

23^rd Battalion (4^th Tyneside Scottish) – Colin Campbell to be temporary Second Lieutenant.  Dated 5^th February, 1915.

23^rd Battalion (4^th Tyneside Scottish) – Simon Macdonald to be temporary Second Lieutenant.  Dated 26^th January, 1915.

AIMING DISCS –

In future the “Aiming Discs” referred to in paragraph 207, Musketry Regulations, Part I (reprint 1914), should be provided with an extension one-third of an inch long, at the upper end of the disc, with which to measure the longest side of the triangle of error.

These can be obtained by local purchase from Messrs. McQueen and Son, Galashiels, Scotland; or Messrs. Ralston and Co., 17, North Wallace Street, Glasgow.

84/J/1943 (F.W.1)

C.R. 44067(C.E.). 

Northern Command Order No.365.

T.L.B. SOUTRY, Captain,

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