BRIGADE ORDERS.

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

COMMANDING 102^nd (TYNESIDE SCOTTISH) BRIGADE.

HEADQUARTERS, ALNWICK,

16^th July, 1915.

506 – Grouped Depot Companies –

            Officers Commanding Units will at once take steps to fill up their Battalions to the New Establishment given in Brigade Order No. 496, dated 11^th instant – vide drafts from the Depot Companies.

The Depot Companies of each Battalion will then be handed over to Colonel V.M. Stockley, who has been appointed to the Command of the combined Depot Companies, Tyneside Scottish Brigade.

2 Captains and 4 Subaltern Officers will be detailed for duty with each Depot Company.  The remainder of the Officers, excluding those temporarily serving with the Home Service men in Newcastle, will remain with their own Battalions.

As soon as the first Depot Company of each Unit is completed, the second Depot Company will be formed, and Officers Commanding Units will on receiving a notification to this effect from the Officer Commanding the combined Depot Companies, arrange to detail the proper complement of Officers required for second Depot Companies.

It must be borne in mind that the Depot Companies will be required to find draughts for their own Battalions in the Field.  It is, therefore, important, in selecting Officers and Non-commissioned Officers for duty with these Companies, that they must be suitable in all respects as regards imparting instruction.

507– Command 21^st (S.) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, (2^nd Tyneside Scottish) –

            Lieutenant-Colonel P.C. Dunbar Stuart, 20^th (S.) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers (1^st Tyneside Scottish) will, in accordance with the orders of the Divisional Commander, take over Command of the 21^st (S.) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers (2^nd Tyneside Scottish) from Colonel V.M. Stockley forthwith, pending confirmation of the appointment by the War Office.

508 – Badges Cap and Shoulder –

            It having come to the notice of the General Officer Commanding that a considerable number of the new issue of cap and shoulder badges are now missing, with a very detrimental result to the appearance of the Battalions on parade, Commanding Officers and Officers Commanding Companies and Platoons will impress upon the men that they will be held responsible for the badges issued to them.  During War time badges to replace those lost and given away cannot be easily obtained – the labour in making badges can be much more usefully employed.  Disciplinary action will in future be taken in all cases of selling or giving away a badge.

509 – Boots – Greasing of –

            In future men’s boots will not be polished with blacking but well greased, in order to keep them in a thoroughly serviceable condition.

510 – Extracts from Northern Command Orders –

BAYONET FIGHTING EQUIPMENT –

            Indents should be submitted to the Chief Ordnance Officers of the areas in which Units are serving for Bayonet Fighting Equipment to complete Units in Northern Command to the authorised scales.  Issues will then be made from time to time as stocks admit.

Authority, War Office letter No. 54/Infantry/1296 (Q.M.G 9), dated 9^th July, 1915.

C.R.N.C. No. 70618 (O.S.).  Northern Command Order No.1275.

511 – Command Orders – Attention called to –

            The attention of Officers Commanding Units is called to Northern Command Orders 1273 and 1276 of 15^th July, 1915.

512 – Extracts from Divisional Orders –

TRANSPORT –

Draught horses in G.S. wagons should not move out of a walk.

The practice of men riding on wagons other than the driver and a man under instruction is strictly forbidden.

Division Order No. 2, dated 15^th July, 1915.

513 – Divisional Order – Attention called to –

The attention of Officers Commanding Units is called to Divisional Order No. 1, of 15^th July,1915.

514 – Bounds –

            The following Tyne Garrison Order is published for information:-

“BOUNDS,”

North Eastern Railway Station,

Newcastle-on-Tyne.

The Central Station of the North Eastern Railwayat Newcastle-on-Tyne is placed out of bounds for soldiers not on a duty entailing their presence there, and those travelling from or arriving at Newcastle Station by train.  Soldiers proceeding by train will, as soon as they have obtained their railway ticket, go at once to the platform from which their train leaves.  Soldiers arriving by train will leave the Station premises without delay.

T.L.B. SOUTRY, Captain,

Brigade-Major, 102^nd (Tyneside Scottish) Brigade.