ORDERS FOR EMBARKATION.
Troops will be lined up along the quay, every man carrying his kit bag and blankets etc. Bayonets with scabbards on, will then be fixed, and the label provided for the purpose, affixed to the stock of the rifle. This label must show clearly the rank, number and full name of the owner. Bandoliers will be emptied, and the ammunition packed in sacks provided for the purpose. These sacks must be securely tied, and labelled with the names of the Company, and will be stored with the rifles, in the Magazine and Armoury.
The Duty Company for the day will provide a guard of 1 Officer, and 1 Sergeant, 1 Corporal and ten men. Immediately the Regiment has entered the dock gates, this guard will mount on the main gate, and others (if any), and no member of the regiment will leave the dock, on any pretext, without a written order from the Commanding Officer or Adjutant. All trains and vehicles, leaving the Dock will be halted, and searched in conformity with this rule.
The Fatigue Company, to be detailed later, will pack its ammunition, and label rifles first, and leave these under a guard of one senior N.C.O. and 12 men, and then hold itself in readiness, for such duties as may be required of it.
On embarkation by companies, these will be lead by their Commanders, and the Embarkation Staff Officer, (or Ships Officer), to their portion of the troop deck, where they will proceed to stow away their kits, and take their places at the Mess tables, whence they will not move to stroll about the decks, until all the Companies are told off to their sections, and the Commanding Officer, and Captain of the ship have made their final inspection.
Officers Commanding Companies, will at once read to their men, orders for boat and fire stations, and see that they are well understood. A report to this effect will be made to the Adjutant.
A copy of fire orders should be found on each deck, and if not present, Officers Commanding Companies will ask for them during the final inspection by the Commanding Officer. They will ascertain where, and at what time rations are drawn, and meals prepared.
The Medical Officer will ascertain where the ships Hospital is, and see that his stores are taken there, and make such arrangements as are required for the performance of his duties. He will report to the Adjutant at what time he wishes the sick to parade daily.
The Quartermaster will see to the stowing of the Regimental baggage, which lies within his province, and will requisition on the Fatigue Company for necessary men for this. He will also see to issue of forage, and rations etc. and take steps to inform Companies where the issue stores are, and the times for issue. The Regimental and Company Cooks are under his orders.
He will take charge of such arms and ammunition as are not stored, and will be responsible for their care, and prompt issue when necessary. He will requisition on the Sergeant Major daily for a fatigue to clean them.
The Transport Officer will be responsible for the embarkation of the Regimental Transport, and animals, and will requisition O.C. Fatigue Company, for the necessary men to carry this out.
He and his Transport Staff, and natives, will be present with their animal charges, until after the final inspection by the Commanding Officer. He will see that his veterinary stores, and such articles as may be required on the voyage are not stowed in the hold, but should be put in charge of one of his Staff, for special stowage, in some convenient place on deck. He will at once proceed to divide his staff, and natives, into watches, and requisition on the Adjutant for any Horse Guard he may consider necessary.
GUARD.
The Officers Guard, detailed for duty on the dock gates, will be the only party who will retain their arms and ammunition, and the Officer in Command will be responsible that these are not handed over for stowage, without direct orders from the Commanding Officer or Adjutant. These arms are to be retained for guard duties etc. on board ship, and will be handed over to the Quartermaster when the guard is finally withdrawn.
SERGEANT MAJOR.
He will assist the Commanding Officer, and Adjutant generally in carrying out the above orders. Embarkation.
He will detail a bugler, and three orderlies to wait on the Commanding Officer.
He will ascertain the position of the ships prison, and see that any prisoners are confined, and guard set.
The Orderly Officer will attend on the Commanding Officer.
ROUTINE FOR THE VOYAGE.
The Adjutant, Orderly Officer, Sergeant Major, Battalion Orderly Sergeant, will accompany the Commanding Officer and Captain on their daily inspection of the ship, and will report to him at such time and place as he may appoint for this inspection.
Company Officers are strictly responsible for the cleanliness, and good order of that portion of the troop decks, which is allotted to their Companies.
During the inspection, their men will be present at the Mess tables seated, and the Commanding Officer will be met by the Officer Commanding Company, and the Company Orderly Sergeant, who will accompany the Officer Commanding until he passes to the next Company. Subaltern Officers will be present with their half Companies.
From the time the ship leaves docks, men will not wear boots and socks.
Physical drill for the whole regiment, for two hours daily will be practiced at such hours as will be appointed later. A marked feature of this, will be doubling round the decks, if space permits. Officers Commanding Companies will use every endeavour to promote games, boxing contests, etc. to keep their men hard and fit.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR ENTRAINING AND EMBARCATION.
In view of a probable early order for a move, the following instructions are drawn up for the guidance of all Officers.
Immediately on receiving orders, all Officers Commanding Companies, O.C. Machine Guns, Transport, and Medical Unit, will render a Marching Out state to the Adjutant. Forms for this should be kept in readiness, and filled in as far as possible before hand.
Officers Commanding Units will proceed to strike tents, and stack them, and kits, on the main road leading into Camp, ready for Transport, and each Unit separately. These stacks will be uploaded by a party of 1 N.C.O. and ten men from each Company, who will also form Baggage Guard, and, on arrival at station, proceed to load the kits etc. into the truck detailed. These men should be detailed beforehand.
One Company will be detailed for general Fatigue. The Officer Commanding Fatigue Company will at once detail one Subaltern and 40 N.C.Os and men, to pack and stack Headquarters baggage, including Orderly Room, and Mess, Guard tent, Mess servants tents etc. at a point on the road near the Guard Room.
The Officer Commanding this Fatigue, will not allow his men to move off, until he has reported to the Adjutant that this is completed. He will then detail 1 N.C.O. and ten men to remain with the baggage, and upload and accompany it to station, and load into the train.
Another Fatigue of 25 N.C.Os and men, will be detailed by the Officer Commanding Fatigues, to pack and stack Quartermasters stores on the road, and will detail 1 N.C.O. and ten men as guard, and loading Fatigue. The Cooks tents and gear will be stacked with the Quartermasters stores, and the Master Cook will follow with this wagon.
A Fatigue of 1 N.C.O. and ten men, to be detailed to report to the Transport Officer to assist him. The tents of the Grooms, and officers servants, will be within the province of the Transport Officer, to be loaded with his stores.
On arrival at the station the Fatigue Company will proceed to pile arms, and assist in loading up baggage and Transport.
The Officer Commanding Fatigue Company will generally supervise the fatigues for the regiment, with the assistance of the Orderly Officer.
ORDERLY OFFICER.
On receipt of orders, the Orderly Officer, and Sergeant Major Meyers, will report themselves to the Adjutant. They will be detailed with one N.C.O. and two men of the Fatigue Company, and the Transport Sergeant, 1 N.C.O. Machine Guns, and one of the Quartermasters Staff, to proceed in advance to the station, and take over from the R.S.O. the Railway Transport available. The number of Compartments will be ascertained, and the number of N.C.Os and men for each coach plainly marked at both ends in chalk, at the rate of six N.C.Os and men per compartment.
If possible a compartment for Company Officers, should be set aside with or near those of their men.
The coach detailed for Headquarters Staff should be plainly marked. Starting from the front of the train, Companies will be detailed in their alphabetical order, the numbers of each Company being ascertained from the Adjutant, and the letter of the Company marked on the coaches.
Accommodation for Transport and kits should be ascertained, and arrangements made to have that part of the train destined for Transport and animals, drawn up to the platform without delay. A man should be sent back to meet the regiment, and lead it to its place for entrainment.
QUARTERMASTER.
The Quartermaster will have his requisitions ready to draw two days rations for horse and man, and these should be loaded in to a truck, at the rear of the train.
The Quartermasters stores should be stored in the same, or an adjoining truck, and the Cooking utensils be readily available. The Quartermaster Sergeant and Staff, and Master Cook, should be as near to this truck as circumstances permit, in order to be readily available for issue of rations, and cooking meals when ordered.
The Quartermaster is responsible that his stores are packed, and ready for a move at short notice, and that the above arrangements are carried out in spirit.
OFFICER COMMANDING TRANSPORT.
The Officer Commanding Transport will make all necessary arrangements for feeding and watering his animals at the appointed places, and should make arrangements, similar to those required of the Quartermaster, to carry this into effect with as little delay as possible.
MACHINE GUNS.
The Officer Commanding Machine Guns, will make arrangements to keep one of his Guns, and its crew, and ammunition, instantly ready for action.
DUTY COMPANY.
The Officer Commanding Duty Company for the day, will detail a train guard of 1 senior N.C.O. and Corporal and 12 men.
These will be under the orders of the Sergeant Major, to be detailed for duty at the gates of every station. They will alight and fall in when so ordered, and no man will leave the train until they have been posted. They will not take off accoutrements during their tour of duty.
REGIMENTAL SERGEANT MAJOR.
The Regimental Sergeant Major will see to the posting of the train guard at all halts, he will see that two orderlies, and an orderly bugler are detailed for duty on the Headquarters coach. He and the Orderly Room Q.M.S. and clerk will occupy a compartment in the Headquarters coach.
MEDICAL OFFICER.
The Medical Officer will see that he has an orderly, and first aid dressings instantly available in case of need. His other Medical stores are to be stored with the Quartermasters stores. He will find accommodation in Headquarters coach.
OFFICER COMMANDING COMPANIES.
Officers Commanding Companies will, on approaching the station, send off left markers in advance to report to the Orderly Officer, and ascertain the coaches marked for their companies, where they will take their post, marking where the left of their company will rest.
Officers Commanding Companies will detail their men, six per compartment, with a due proportion of N.C.Os, and will keep sections and half companies separate. Where possible compartments for Company Officers, should be with or near their companies. Company Officers will alight at each halt, and see their men don’t leave the train until guards are posted on the gates. On detraining Companies will fall in opposite their coaches, and await orders.
DETRAINING.
A Fatigue Company will be detailed. This Company will pile arms in a convenient place on arrival at the destination, and Officer Commanding will report to the Adjutant for instructions. One Officer of Machine Guns, The Medical Officer, the Quartermaster, Transport Officer, and Orderly Officer, and One Officer per Company, will report to the Adjutant for instructions, immediately the train halts at the destination.
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DICIPLINARY POWERS OF COMPANY OFFICERS, AND OFFICERS COMMANDING DETACHMENTS.
Officer Commanding Detachment, if of the rank of Captain, has the full power of an Officer Commanding corps, subject to the limitations imposed by order of the Officer Commanding, Rand Rifles, by virtue of K.R.457, and which are set forth later.
POWERS OF SUMMARY AND MINOR PUNISHMENTS OF COMMANDING OFFICER OF CORPS.
A Commanding Officer may, subject to a soldiers right to elect, previous to the award, to be tried by Field General Court Martial, inflict the following summary punishments on a private soldier: – (K.R.493.) (A) Detention or Field Imprisonment, not exceeding 28 days, but the power to award detention exceeding 7 days will not be exercised by anyone below the rank of Major, save and except in the case of absence without leave exceeding 7 days, when the days of detention awarded may be extended to the number of days of absence, but in no case to exceed 28 days. But if absence does not exceed 7 days, detention can only be awarded for 7 days. A days pay will be forfeited for every day of imprisonment awarded by a Civil Court, a Court Martial, and for every day of detention or Field Imprisonment awarded summarily by a Commanding Officer, or Officer Commanding Detachment.
(B) In cases of drunkenness, a fine not exceeding £1 (U.M.D.C. 46B.)
(C) Forfeiture of pay. This is automatic, a Commanding Officer has no power to alter it.
DEFINITION. (i) “Forfeiture of Pay”. (i) All ordinary pay for every day of absence, (see definition of “Day of Absence”.) either without leave or desertion, and for (ii) every day of imprisonment awarded by a Civil Court, or Court Martial; and (iii) for every day of Field Imprisonment or Detention awarded by a Commanding Officer on Active Service up to 28 days, if such award was made for absence without leave. Forfeiture of Pay also applies to Warrant, and N.C.Os under similar conditions.
In all the above cases pay is automatically forfeited, and a Commanding Officer has no discretion.
DEFINITION. (2) “Day of Absence”. It is laid down (S.140 A.A.) that six hours absence constitutes a day of absence. Six clear and consecutive hours of absence must elapse, but it is immaterial whether they extend partly in one day and partly in another. A man absent for 30 hours is absent for 2 days for the purpose of this rule, and a Commanding Officer has no option but to deprive him of 2 days pay, whereas 29 hours would constitute only 1 day of absence, save and except of the following paragraph.
A soldier forfeits 1days pay, for any day or part of a day, in which by reason of his absence, no matter how short, a duty that ought to be performed by him, is thrown upon some other person.
EXAMPLE. If a soldier is absent from 9-0 p.m. to 1-0 a.m. in the ordinary course he would not forfeit pay, but if, during that time, his turn for a guard, piquet etc. came round (whether he knew of it or not) and his duty had to be taken by someone else, he would forfeit 1 days pay, although he was absent only 4 hours.
NOTE. (1) Forfeiture of days pay should always be described in these words, and in no other in the Crime Sheets, books etc., and the Officer should not give it as part of an award, – but merely, inform the soldier that in accordance with the regulations he has forfeited …. days pay.
MINOR PUNISHMENTS.
A Commanding Officer may inflict the following Minor Punishments on a man.
(D) Confinement to Camp for any period not exceeding 14 days, during which defaulters will be required to answer their names at uncertain hours throughout the day, up to Tattoo; and be employed on all fatigues, and attend all parades.
(E) Extra guards or picquets, these only to be ordered as punishment for Minor offences in connection with these duties.
(F) Admonition. Entry on Crime Sheet:- “Admonished”.
FOR N.C.Os
(G) “Reprimand”, or “Severe Reprimand”.
(H) “Admonition”.
NOTE. (2) An Award of Field Imprisonment up to 7 days must be given in hours, starting from the hour awarded, and for any period exceeding 7 days, it must be given in days, starting from the first hour of the day of the award. A soldier who commits a second offence, while undergoing punishment for the first, may be awarded further Field Imprisonment, Detention, C.C., but in the case of Field Imprisonment or detention, it will start on the day of the award, and in C. C. at the termination of the previous award. But no soldier may be awarded detention for more than 28 days in such a case, or the whole extent of consecutive punishment or Field Imprisonment and C.C. may not exceed 42 days.
NOTE. (3) In every case where a Commanding Officer intends to inflict Field Imprisonment or detention, and in every case involving forfeiture of pay (in contra-distinction to a fine for drunkenness), the Commanding Officer before giving his award, is bound to ask the soldier if he will take the summary award or elects to go before a F.G.C.M. If a soldier elects to go before a F.G.C.M. he is bound to be given an opportunity for reconsideration on the following day, within 24 hours.
A soldier had no right to demand a Field General Court Martial for a fine for drunkenness, or for any Minor punishment.
NOTE. (4) Drunkenness, on or off duty, on Active Service is triable by F.G.C.M. or such summary punishment as the Commanding Officer may award, in conformity with his powers as above stated i.e. Fine and Field Imprisonment, or detention or some Minor punishment. On Active Service there is no “Simple case of Drunkenness”. It is always a most grave offence.
POWERS OF OFFICER COMMANDING DETACHMENT IF OF RANK OF CAPTAIN.
An Officer in Command of a detachment, if of the rank of Captain, has all the powers of a C.O. except that under no circumstances will he inflict more than 7 days Field Imprisonment or detention, except for absence without leave (see A).
In respect to an N.C.O., he has the power to inflict a Severe Reprimand, an acting or provisional N.C.O. may be reverted to his permanent grade.
A SUBALTERN OFFICER IN COMMAND OF A DETACHMENT.
A Subaltern Officer in Command of a detachment, may inflict any of the “Minor Punishments” set forth above, and inflict a fine of up to 5/-for drunkenness. (All cases of absence without leave will automatically engender forfeiture of pay, subject to the limitations set forth in notes 1 and 3.)
In cases where serious Crimes come up for disposal, and the above powers are inadequate, a short statement of evidence should be taken in writing, and submitted to the nearest higher authority, with a request for instructions.
POWERS OF COMPANY OFFICERS.
A Company Commander has power to deal with Minor Offences, and inflict punishments up to 7 days C.C. extra guards, parades, picquets etc., but will not deal with cases involving fines of depravation of pay.
A Company Commander may reprimand, but not “Severely Reprimand” an N.C.O. below the rank of Sergeant.
The powers of Subaltern Officers, (save where acting as O.C. Detachment) are limited to 3 days C.C. and guards, picquets etc.
DEFINITION. (3) “Detention” or “Field Imprisonment”, where no cells are available, will take the form of close confinement with all fatigues, and hard labour, and where these are not sufficient punishment, drill in full marching order may be ordered under an N.C.O. or Battalion Orderly Corporal. It will consist of marching in quick time only, and not to be used for instruction. It should not be given for more than 1 hour at a time, and not exceed 4 hours per day. On Active Service, while in the field, “Field Imprisonment” should be given, and nor “Detention”.
INSTRUCTIONS
All “Crimes”, when disposed of, will at once be forwarded to the Adjutant at Headquarters, for entry in the Regimental Crime records, and Regimental Orders when necessary.
Officers will pay the greatest attention to the correct wording, and entry of Crimes, and are responsible that sufficient evidence is produced to establish the case. If possible Officers should avoid appearing as evidence in charges against a private soldier. Every case should be carefully, and judicially investigated before it is referred to the Commanding Officer, and only referred to the C.O. when Officer Commanding Company has satisfied himself, that it is beyond the powers conferred on him above.
Soldiers accused of drunkenness, should not be brought before an Officer for at least 24 hours.
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RAND RIFLES.
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