COPY.
INTERNMENT CAMP. GUARD COMMANDER.
1. Sentries will be posted as follows:-
By day
Guard sentry.
Tower No.1
Tower No.3
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By night Towers Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and Guard.
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To be armed with .303" rifles.
Magazines will be charged and cut offs closed.
Swords
will not be fixed.
2.
Guard sentry by night will be a stick sentry.
All sentries will at all times have whistles with
which to sound the alarm signal.
3.
doubled
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On the alarm sounding all sentries will at once be
swords fixed, rifles loaded, the extra ten men will fall in with buckshot rifles and await orders of the Camp
Commandant.
4.
During sentry reliefs the N.C.O. in charge of the relief will inspect the wire on making his rounds and will report
to the Guard Commander on completion of the relief.
5.
All arms not in use during the day will be kept chained
and locked in the Guard.
At night each individual will be responsible for his own arms, the spare buckshot rifles will be kept locked and chained in the Guard. The key will be kept by the Guard
Commander.
6.
The alarm will be a succession of short blasts on a
whistle. This will be taken up by all sentries.
The alarm will be sounded on any attempt to escape, on a fire breaking out in the Camp, on any disturbance or in the event of the lighting system failing.
7.
be shot.
8.
An internee making a determined attempt to escape will
Under no circumstances will sentries descend from their
towers until their relief has taken up his position in the tower.