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APPENDIX.
COMPARATIVE Table showing Victorian Contingent to Australian Federal Defence Force proposed in Report of Inter-Colonial Military Committee, dated January 29, 1896, and Field Force for defence of Victoria proposed in Defence Scheme revised to 1896.
Victorian Contingent to Australian Federal Defence Force.
Field Force for Defence of Victoria.
Arm.
Corps.
Peace.
War.
War.
Peace.
Corps.
Head-quarters Staff
(Not included in troops allotted)
34
14
Artillery
Horse Artillery, Battery, with Mounted Brigade
100
186
109
4.7
"A" Battery, Field Artillery, with Divisional Troops Ammunition Column, Mounted Brigade
100
176
357
273
L
21
43
109
70
Horse Artillery Battery
"A," "B," and "C" Field Batteries 40-pr. R.B.L. Battery (V. Rangers).
Ammunition Column, Infantry Division
24
40
Total
245
445
575
390
Engineers
Mounted Detachment, with Mounted Brigade Field Company, with Divisional Troops
14
29
60
100
92
75
:
Field and Telegraph Company.
Total
74
129
92
75
Infantry
1st, 2nd, and 3rd Regiments (each of 8 companies), with
2nd Infantry Brigade
1,566
2,619
3,992
1,741
1,178
778
1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Battalions (each of 4 companies)
Rangers.
Total
1,566
2,619
5,170
2,519
Mounted Infantry
Mounted Rifles (one regiment), with Mounted Brigade
388
582
951
729
Mounted Rifles (2 battalions)
Army Service Corps
With Mounted Brigade
41
وو
29
2nd Infantry Brigade.. Divisional Troops
:::
Total
:::
:
40
35
232
82
100
39
:
66
54
::
116
202
100
39
Medical Staff, Bearer Com. pany, and Field Hospital
With Mounted Brigade
2nd Infantry Brigade. - Divisional Troops
Total
Grand total
31
58
95
59
:
39
J
:::
42
99
11
21
84
178
95
59
:
:
:
:
2,473
4,155
7,017
3,825
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Arm.
Head-quarters Staff.
Artillery.
Engineers.
Infantry.
Mounted Infantry.
Army Service Corps.
Medical Staff, Bearer Com-
pany, and Field Hospital.
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Defence Scheme revised to January 1897.
Remarks by the Colonial Defence Committee.
Covering Letter of Commander-in-chief, Malta.
Page 3, paragraph 2.-The Commander-in-chief, Malta, calls attention to an important addition to the Scheme, viz., the Regulations for the Management of the Examination Anchorage to be established in the Marsamuscetto Harbour. On this subject the Colonial Defence Committee have recently received from the Admiralty, with reference to paragraph 4 of their Memorandum No. 78 M on Harbour Regulations at Malta, an intima- tion that at such an important naval base the general regulation and control of the maritime traffic in time of war should be in the hands of the navy. The Committee concur in this view, and are in communication with the Admiralty and War Office as to the modifications in the Harbour Regula- tions on page 77 of the Report which are thereby rendered necessary.
2. Page 3, paragraph 4.-The sub-division of the defences into fire commands referred to in this paragraph now requires some further modifi- cation in accordance with the revised chain of Artillery Command sent to the station with War Office letter 57/Malta/382. According to this chain the Central Section should be organized into five fire commands. This involves an alteration in paragraph 2, page 15, of the Scheme, and in the Table II on page 19 where the omission of the staffs for the Fire Commanders'* Stations V and XI will release two officers and ten men from these duties. Corresponding alterations will also be necessary in paragraph 4, page 21, paragraph 2, page 22, and Table A, pages 26 and 27.
3. Page 3, paragraph 7.-The Committee understand that the request of the Commander-in-chief, Malta, for an additional officer to take charge of military telegraphs and telephones has been complied with. (War Office letter 112/Engineers/2363.) He might conveniently be termed Director of Tele- graphs in place of District Signalling Officer, the title now used in the Scheme.