BRIGADE ORDERS.

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

COMMANDING 123^rd (TYNESIDE SCOTTISH) BRIGADE.

HEADQUARTERS, ALNWICK,

13^th APRIL, 1915.

234 – Sanitation –

            The attention of Officers Commanding Units is called to the Station Sanitation Officer’s report circulated yesterday.

235 – Extracts from Northern Command Orders –

“LONDON GAZETTE” –

            The following extract from a Supplement to the “London Gazette” of Tuesday 6^th April, 1915, is published for information:-

The Northumberland Fusiliers –

22^nd Battalion (3^rd Tyneside Scottish). – James Whaley Fryer to be temporary Second-Lieutenant.  Dated 15^th December, 1915.  [Should this be 1914?]

Northern Command Order No.553.

PRISONS –

            The Local Civil Prison at Durham should be added to the list published in Command Order No. 544, dated 8^th April, 1915.

C.R.N.C. 52213 (A.).  Northern Command Order No.555.

RAIL CHARGES – LOCAL PURCHASES –

            Considerable difficulty is being experienced by Railway Companies in regard to the adjustment of rail charges in connection with local purchases.  The difficulty seems to be due to an erroneous impression on the part of the Military Authorities that all goods for the Government service should be carried free.

It is pointed out, however, that free conveyance only applies in the case of stores moved from one Military depot to another, and that when the stores are sent to or from contractors or traders carriage charges must be paid (vide Army Order 395 (3 II), 1914).

The following procedure should therefore be adapted in regard to local purchases:-

1. Contractors should be informed that:-
2. In cases where the contract price includes delivery, carriage charges must continue to be paid to the railway companies as heretofore;
3. In cases where contractors are not liable for the delivery charges, carriage should nevertheless be paid by them in the first instance, and reclaimed from the War Department in their accounts for the goods supplied, the claims being supported by the railway company’s receipted voucher as is usual in such cases.
4. In cases in which contractors or traders quote “free on rail,” and object to pay carriage charges, the goods should be consigned “carriage forward,” and the charges should in such cases be adjusted by the consignee.
5. Army Form G. 980 should not be issued for traffic from or to a contractor or trader, except by War Office Authority, which is restricted to very exceptionable traffic.
6. Care should be taken to ascertain whether the War Department or the contractor is liable for the carriage charge.

Authority, War Office letter No. 14/Railways/4028 (Q.M.G.F.a), dated 5^th April, 1915.

C.R.N.C. 52339 (S.T.).  Northern Command Order No.557.

T.L.B. SOUTRY, Captain,

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